Weezer’s music video for their new single Pork and Beans fetures lots of YouTube Stars like Chris Chrocker, the CokeMentos guys or Miss Teen South Carolina.
You see those animated illustration-videos quite often again these days, so here’s a very nice one for your viewing pleasures:
Blackbird from Thomas Frenzel on Vimeo.
“The Blackbird video is a music visualization project by Katja Schweiker and Thomas Frenzel. Both are working with an experimental approach on intermedia projects, striving for content generated designs.
This artwork was done for Michael Fakeschs audio-visual project called VIDOS—a collection of music visualizations based on Michaels latest album DOS. The video‘s design is based on visual samples that quote Michaels auditory style and mixes analog with digital elements—metaphors of the real and the immaterial. It‘s about trying and failure—trying to leave behind, trying to live in a forward-turned way, trying not to resign or surrender, trying to get aware.”
Greetings to Kai.
Truly a world of it’s own, Björk’s new video Wanderlust, directed by Encyclopedia Pictura. The shooting took 9 month, there is a 3d and a 2d version of it.
See the 2d video in high quality here.
For more info watch a NY Times Interview or the Making of.
Music Videos surely have come a long way since MTV first aired with â€Video killed the Radio Star“ on August 1st, 1981.
Thorsten Konrad’s diploma at the School of Arts and Design Bremen integrates information from websites like google, geonames or flickr in real time into the video Take this Dance by german rockband All Joines.
Besides showing the ‘musicvideo’, the website takethisdance.com also a couple of features Making-Ofs and additional information.
…and once again, all the great photos in this entry are made by the very talented Anne Helmond!
And on yet another rainy morning in Amsterdam (not surprising, you get used to it after a while!), full of curiosity and hopes for the day, I went to the second day of the Video Vortex - Responses to YouTube conference. I was hoping that today would be more fruitful than yesterday, and indeed, what a pleasant surprise! Well, call me selfish, but instead of giving a general overview I will focus on the session that was the most interesting for me personally: Curating Online Video.
On a rainy morning in Amsterdam (that demanded lots of coffee!), the Video Vortex - Responses to YouTube Conference was kicked off at Club 11. I will be blogging on the conference for movingweb, but I was also there because I have been involved with the project through my work at the Netherlands Media Art Institute where we made an exhibition with the same title and related topics. Well, the program of the conference is quite extensive, and I was very disappointed by some of the presentations today (that seemed unprepared, unfocused, had nothing new to say…a total contrast with the first Video Vortex conference in Brussels!). So I will focus on the gems of today’s presentations!
What’s this? A kid’s drawing?
It’s Michel Gondry’s drawing for the new Björk Video. Although the video lacks Gondry’s storytelling skills as it’s more a performance video, it’s incedrible how unique his style is. His ideas really are like coming from a kid’s mind and that what sets him apart from everyone out there. Moreover, he almost always finds a metaphor for the message of the song, which is the most difficult part about doing music videos.
See the Making of here at Specialten and the Video at YouTube.
One Band, One Song, One Shot!
The Take Away Shows are a video blog by Vincent Moon. He meets a band for an our and they record a song onetake. It’s not about shooting a technical perfect music video, but about the authentic atmosphere of the recording. I think it’s a perfect concept for a video blog, it’s short, it’s simple but intelligent, it’s informative but entertaining.
Vincent has done over 70 shows. Some of my favs besides Final Fantasy are Beirut and the Arcade Fire.
I might be a little late posting this music video by Socalled, but it’s too beautiful to not getting mentioned.
Original YouTube Source.
“The video sets out to amplify the message of the song.
The piece was conceived and created by The Rumpus Room as a multi platform project, having versions of the film for small hand held devices as well as large resolution screens. It is both a traditional piece of film and an interactive portal to online information and campaigns.
The video has over 100 QR Codes that are subliminal when watched in real time, but accessible to interact with if you navigate through the film using time controllers. The QR Codes are organised into sections that relate to specific issues of civil liberties.”
Visit the Pet Shop Boys Website for more information. The Production Company The Rumpus Room is a new division of The Sweet Shop, specialized in non-narrative Storytelling. Sounds interesting? Read an interview with Tomas Rope, founder of Tomato Interactive, and now involved in Rumpus Room, in the german culture magazine Spex. (german only)