It's been exactly
five years since Charlie Fink and his musical band of friends - his brother Doug on drums, Tom "Fiddle" Hobden on violin, Matt "Urby Whale" Owens on harmonium and bass and
Laura Marling on backing vocals - first appeared on the London nu-folk circuit, their moniker a conflation of a famous indie
film and its director:
Noah and the Whale.
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posted by progosk
on Sep 13, 2011 -
7 comments
Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy
Biill Nyye, the Science Guuy
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy
(Science rules)
Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy
(Inertia is a property of matter)
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill-Bill-Bill-
Biill Nyye, the Science Guuy
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
(T-minus seven seconds)
Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy [more inside]
posted by troll
on Aug 4, 2011 -
101 comments
Blogging the Hugos: Decline (
part 1,
part 2,
part 3), is a series of blog posts covering some dystopian trends in recent Hugo nominees and itself
winner of the of the BSFA award for non fiction. Meanwhile the 2011 Hugo finalists
have been announced, with Mefi favorites featuring strongly: In Best Novella
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (
previously), In Best Short Story
The Things by Peter Watts (
previously). Doctor who features heavily under Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (
too many posts to mention), but has strong competition from
Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury.
posted by Artw
on Apr 24, 2011 -
27 comments
The long take, an uncut, uninterrupted shot in film, is
seen by some as the counter to CGI, the last great field for cinematic art. The linked page features six clips from 1990 on, plus
the opening shot from Orson Welles' 1958 film,
Touch of Evil. Alfred Hitchcock's film from a decade earlier,
Rope, took the long cut further, with the whole film shot in eight takes of up to 10 minutes each,
a decision shaped by the limit of the physical recording media. With digital media, the long take could be pushed further, as with
Russian Ark, from 2002. The movie was shot in one long take, with the narrative working through the history of Russia,
set within The State Hermitage Museum, and captured in one day on the 4th take. If the long takes are a tad long for you, try the "short" long takes that are
one-shot music videos [videos inside]
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posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 28, 2010 -
74 comments
Back on
August 15, 2010, Aesop Rock kicked off a sprawling collaboration effort, with input by 28 artists, with
an eclectic collection of videos spanning from
music videos to
odd clips and
a Kimya Dawson recording studio dance party,
works by photographer Chrissy Piper, and
lots of music, from
unreleased tracks,
remixes, and
mixtapes. There's even a post about being
manhandled by a nude model, written by the Dwarvs front-man
Blag Dahlia. Going back to the beginning of the site, the second post was
a collection of facts about bats, and the only obvious connection back to the tragic impetus for the title of this ongoing collaboration (
900 bats) --
over 900 bats were torched to prevent disruption of work on the ongoing
renovations of the historic
Bala Quila (also spelled
Bala Qila) fort in
Alwar, Rajasthan, in north-eastern India.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 16, 2010 -
4 comments
Mr. Bungle Monday!!! In their 15-year career, the band only made one music video and it was banned by MTV for being ... well, generally deranged.
Quote Unquote was originally called
Travolta but Warner Bros. pressured them into changing the title.
Luckily, their 3rd and final album left enough of a lasting impression to warrant fanmade videos. Thus, we now have:
a)YT user tkan's Chris Cunningham-inspired
Retrovertigo & the Hitchcock-esque
Pink Cigarette clips;
b)YT user Illusionoel's
Goodbye Sober Day, which reworks footage from Baraka; and
c)
Vertigo, a beautiful medley of the album itself, California, performed by a highschool drumline
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posted by mannequito
on Sep 27, 2010 -
28 comments
The Jónsi and Alex (Recipe) Show: join
Jónsi Birgisson (frontman of
Sigur Rós),
Alex Somers and their very loud blender to make
raw food recipes. They made three videos from their
Good Heart recipe book, for
Macadamia Monster Mash,
Raw Strawberry Pie, and
Nammi Nammi. If coconut, almonds, dates and agave (heavily featured in their three recipes) aren't your thing, enjoy a couple dreamy videos from the couple's album
Riceboy Sleeps:
All the Big Trees and
Daníell in the Sea. See also:
Sometimes I Get Scared (a distortion-heavy non-album track), and
Jónsi and Alex talk about their album, with parts of the tracks in the background.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 12, 2010 -
7 comments
The
music video for Modest Mouse's new track King Rat was released today. Interestingly, it was directed by
Heath Ledger two years ago, and released posthumously. Apparently, there's another one
coming up. It has
described as looking "like exactly the kind of thing that someone might come up with after spending a couple of months rocking
Joker makeup and pretending to
mutilate people."
The video contains a little cartoon goriness, so be warned.
posted by azarbayejani
on Aug 4, 2009 -
20 comments
The
Vocaloids,
1 anime-like characters created for the singing synthasizer program by the Yamaha Corporation, have been capturing the imaginations of Japanese fans for more than a year. They've inspired and starred in a large body of fan-produced songs and animated videos,
2 ranging from macabre to sorrowful to dramatic to humorous. [Massive MLYTP]
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posted by anthy
on Jan 28, 2009 -
7 comments
(
Follow-upFilter) It's rare that jazz videos venture beyond filming live performances. This makes the exceptions all the more notable.
Animation seems the medium of choice: from George Griffin's 1988 paper collage for Charlie Parker's "
Ko Ko" to Len Lye's swinging
The Lambeth Walk (1939), or (stretching musical definitions just a bit) his 1958 masterpiece "
Free Radicals". More recent jazz seems to fit just as well: witness Lung's psychotic piece for Ladyscraper's "
Thou Art Fucking Dead".
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posted by progosk
on Jul 14, 2008 -
11 comments
120 Minutes is a tumblr page put together by a fan of the long running MTV alt-rock show, with links to dozens (at least) of videos from the show's heyday. There's no search nor sort that I could find, but the site makes for fun browsing for fans of that particular musical era.
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posted by jonson
on Sep 7, 2007 -
17 comments
There are a lot of special people out there making special music videos for their favorite songs.
This tribute to
Don't Fear the Reaper is particularly... moving.
Marvel at the mid-90's VCR-edited version of Toto's
Africa.
There are some great
Star Trek slash music videos out there. (1st link possibly NSFW).
Then you have
these guys, breathing new life into
classics with some serious
lip-synching skills.
posted by TheGoldenOne
on Jun 22, 2007 -
22 comments
Chicago based designer & music fan J Tyler took it upon himself to craft a music video for The Arcade Fire song "
My Body Is A Cage" using clips from the classic Sergio Leone film Once Upon A Time in the West. The clips evoke the elegaic, reflectively somber beauty in the song remarkably well - so well that the video reached the attention of someone in the Arcade Fire's camp, who emailed Tyler and requested his permission to
post his work on their official site. If you have the bandwidth, I highly recommend
this direct download link to a high-res quicktime version, it's much, much better than streaming flash.
posted by jonson
on May 20, 2007 -
72 comments
Long before 2006 you could probably make a convincing argument that the music video has outlived its purpose; however, musicblogger docopenhagen's list of the
top 50 music videos of 2006 has some excellent inclusions, and hopefully something for even the most jaded viewer.
My threefavorites.
posted by jonson
on Dec 7, 2006 -
19 comments
100 Awesome Music Videos Note: not THE 100 MOST Awesome, just 100 awesome music videos. Some you'll know, some you may not, many you'll disagree with, just keep in mind, no one claimed this was a definitive list.
posted by jonson
on Jun 20, 2006 -
65 comments
Heiterkeit (12 meg quicktime movie) is an utterly charming German music video about all the
other fun things you can do lying down. (Yes, it's entirely safe for work, unless your workplace forbids quirky charm.) If you enjoy it, check out
Transsylvanische Verwandte(12 meg quicktime movie), another work by
the same director. For a look behind the scenes of both films, there's this
making-of video. (The making of video is a realplayer file, and it's in German--but I don't speak German, and I got the general idea.) Via
Antville.
posted by yankeefog
on Oct 28, 2005 -
12 comments
The video MTV doesn't want you to see [.asx. file]: Apparently the new Foo Fighters video is just too risque for the
cutting edge entertainment channel (~pffft). This brief
NYpost article has more. Either way, it's hilarious. It co-stars Jack Black, which is good enough for me. "Let's put the hammer down!"
posted by Witty
on Jul 2, 2003 -
33 comments
