The band "OK Go" are using their signature blend of pleasant indie pop and quirky, home-grown videos to teach kids about
primary colors in a new short for Sesame Street. - SLYT
posted by Slap*Happy
on Jan 31, 2012 -
37 comments
What happens when a Southern paleontologist falls for a creationist? According to Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, it might go a little something like
this.
posted by yellowbinder
on Jan 25, 2012 -
30 comments
Tubalr is a music video playing service for YouTube. Type in a band name and click "only" or "similar" and it will play a stream of music videos only from that artist or from a selection of similar artists. Creating an account will allow for marking videos as favorites and enable saving of playlists. Also available are genre-based playlists rather than using artists as seeds.
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posted by hippybear
on Jan 1, 2012 -
27 comments
The cautionary tale of the shiny new device that's smarter than its users and ends up taking over is pretty much cliché... but it took Australian pop musicker
Gotye (prounced like Gaultier, if that helps) to apply it to a
Lowrey Organ (the
Cotillion D575, a vintage model he acquired for $100 and uses both in his recordings and concerts). Add retro-style animation, and you have something scary yet whimsical and truly
"State of the Art".
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posted by oneswellfoop
on Dec 11, 2011 -
19 comments
Here's a little musical journey. Let's start with
Sherlock's Daughter, a dream-pop group of Brooklyn-based
Aussies. From this, extract the keyboardist and electronics wizard Jonti Danilewitz, creating:
D'Animals, then simplified as Danimals. It started as a solo outing, but
turned into a group, who
produced an odd single (which spun off
an animated music video under the name Djanimals). The group also won the chance to
work with Mark Ronson and
a bunch of well-known musicians, producing
a single with a video. Spin out a bit further, and Jonti is on his own (again), releasing
a mixtape "album" from his private collection, and most recently signing with
Stones Throw Records, where he has finally released
his solo debut album (streaming online). Bonus tangents inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Oct 20, 2011 -
6 comments
Starting in the summer of 2009, Southern Souls began by capturing unique performances by musicians that call southern Ontario home. Seeing musicians play in the places that they live and breathe, places they themselves have chosen—in the street, in a store, in a kitchen or bedroom—is almost a homecoming for the music itself, returning it to the places in which it started.
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posted by purephase
on Apr 30, 2011 -
5 comments
What we do is what we do. The brand new DEVO video takes the crowd-sourcing/focus-grouping element of their album
Something For Everybody to the music video world. It's a 360-degree video where the user can control the camera. (For the lazy among us, there's also a "random" button that moves from shot to shot.) The link also includes a brief interview with DEVO co-founder/video co-director Gerald V. Casale.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me
on Apr 19, 2011 -
15 comments
Four weeks ago,
the video for Radiohead's Lotus Flower went up on YouTube. It's a simple thing, black and white, starting off with a silhouetted dancer who turns out to be Thom Yorke. The formerly "
very shy and uncertain" fellow has since turned into
a back-up dancer for Beyonce,
makes Window Licker a bit less creepy*, and
is a dancing queen. There's
a step-by-step graphic break-down of Thom's dance (descriptions in French,
auto-translated by Babelfish and
alternate descriotion in English),
a detailed break-down of Yorke's influences,
a tumblr of 150 dancing Thom video edits and mash-ups, and
a Know Your Meme page.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 9, 2011 -
27 comments
Considering Jonathan Coulton's lyric-writing, any text-based video of one of his songs is going to be good. But when graphic artist Jarrett Heather committed acts of "kinetic typography" to the ode to suburbia
"Shop Vac", he made a SLYT that deserves multiple viewings.
posted by oneswellfoop
on Dec 1, 2010 -
67 comments
Though the sets and music are pure golden-age horror, the villagers are coded as ’50s sitcom types, bland exemplars of suburban uptightitude. Their ranks include a young Mos Def, though he’s seldom called upon to do anything other than act scared of supernatural goings-on in a manner that would cause even Stepin Fetchit’s ghost to say “For God’s sake, man, show some dignity.”
Just in time for Halloween, the AV Club series
My Year of Flops unearths the Stephen King-written, Stan Winston-directed
Michael Jackson's Ghosts (
2,
3,
4).
posted by Horace Rumpole
on Oct 27, 2010 -
15 comments
