Youtube user Thepeterson puts together collections of the major radio hits, movies, video games, and technology of a given year. So why not take a time machine trip to the media landscape of :
1997,
1999, and
2002
posted by The Whelk
on Apr 23, 2013 -
109 comments
Die Antwoord's new video
FATTY BOOM BOOM is a bright and colourful African adventure, complete with wild animals, zef savages singing and dancing in the streets, and a special guest appearance by a sneaky little prawn star. (warning: contains ironic blackface)
posted by Tom-B
on Oct 17, 2012 -
160 comments
Russell Mulcahy is best known for directing
Highlander (as well as its...
less-popular...sequel) and is currently doing a
Teen Wolf series for MTV. But speaking of MTV, he got his start doing music videos. A
lot of music videos. In fact, if you remember a video from the early days of MTV, it's probably one of Mulcahy's.
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posted by Legomancer
on May 14, 2012 -
33 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
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
End Love, the latest music video endeavor from rock group OK Go, was choreographed and filmed at widely-varying framerates, producing a hypnotic viewing experience.
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posted by knave
on Jun 16, 2010 -
90 comments
Easy access to the internet and simplified technology for recording songs and videos might do great things for the future of pop music. Or it might be like
this.
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posted by Potomac Avenue
on Jan 21, 2009 -
109 comments
