Justin Johnson and Erik Beck have been around the videoblogging world for a very long time. They created IndyMogul, joined the team at the now legendary Next New Networks and now they;ve branched off on their own as The Indie Machines. One of their projects is the above music video for artist K.Flay.
It combines clever camera work, interesting post effects, and puppets. Lots of puppets.
According to the YouTube description, the goal of this video was to “make the best/worst recruiting video of all time.” BOOM! DROP THE MIKE.
My time here is coming to an end. I’m dying, you see. But mostly I mean that my tenure-ship as guest editor is at an end. Between moments of wiping my tear-filled eyes, I can think of no better way to conclude things than with this lovely video for former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins’ “The Country.” I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
I don’t quite understand how the swarthy, slapstick cartoon, Popeye, fits with the uptempo, lively sound of Wilco’s new track “Dawn on Me,” but I am excited to see the spinach-guzzling seafarer once again.
Wilco teamed up with King Features (who’s been producing Popeye cartoons since 1932) to create the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in more than 30 years. Featuring Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee’ Pea, Bruno, and the hamburger-obsessed Wimpy, this collaborative music video draws Wilco into the animated world of America’s oldest blue collar hero and incorporates some of the series reoccurring jokes for fans. ”Ug-gug-gug-gug.”
Bohemian Rhapsody is one of those songs we all sing in the car when it comes on. I don’t know whether that’s because of Wayne’s World, or just because it’s a cultural institution at this point, but despite its 10/10 sing-along potential, it’s actually an enormously complicated song. How complicated? Let me quote the Wikipedia article below:
Recording began at Rockfield Studio 1 near Monmouth on 24 August 1975, after a 3-week rehearsal in Herefordshire. During the making of the track, an additional four studios (Roundhouse, SARM (East), Scorpion, and Wessex) were used.[1] According to some band members, Mercury mentally prepared the song beforehand and directed the band throughout. Mercury used a Bechstein “concert grand” piano, which he played in the promotional video and the UK tour. Due to the elaborate nature of the song, it was recorded in various sections, held together by a drum click to keep all layers synchronised. May, Mercury, and Taylor reportedly sang their vocal parts continually for ten to twelve hours a day. The entire piece took three weeks to record, and in some sections featured 180 separate overdubs.
Okay, so obviously this is too much for one single person to take on, right?
Enter Richie Castellano: Challenge Accepted.
Granted this isn’t just some random guy, Richie Castellano has a Master’s in music from SUNY and has been the guitarist and vocalist of Blue Oyster Cult since 2004, but you still gotta admire his moxy at seeing one of rock’s most complex songs and saying “Hold my calls, I got this.” It’s almost unfair at how well he pulls it off too. I won’t quite say it’s effortless, but it’s damn fine musicianship and must have taken a fair bit of time to break down, plan out, and pull off.
And boy does he pull it off…
hot dog boy forever is a trippy 8-bit animation over a trippy 8-bit song.
I’m a huge fan of Lacey’s gifs on http://lulinternet.com. If you’re into this vid, there are several others to watch over and over again.
video by lacey micallef
music by george and jonathan
h/t elspethjane
This video is basically a documentary.
(Guys, if you’re not watching, you don’t even KNOW.)
… and regardless of how you feel about the Oscars or their politics, if you love movies it’s hard not to feel a reaction to this beautiful high-concept promo for TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar.
This is from 2008; if you can’t get enough there’s also a 2009 update of the same premise.
It’s fairly well established by now that we’re suckers for any video that uses movie clips in a clever way. And this musical mashup does just that!
Created by Matthijs Vlot (who’s web servers have died due to the popularity), this video clip art of famous movie moments embraces the emotions of both the films each clip is pulled from and the crooner of a love song they compose. Quite impressive!
(Warning: You will most definitely catch yourself humming this song at inappropriate times for the rest of the day. Yet another reason why the Internet makes life interesting…)
I’m a huge fan of the remix work of Nick Bertke bka Pogo aka fagottron. Nick, in his words, records ”sounds from my favourite games and movies, and piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle to create completely new music.”
His newest video is the one you see above, remixing sounds from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. (thx, moth, for the h/t!)
You may have seen his work remixing Disney cartoons Alice in Wonderland and Up:
But my favorite, the one that has stayed in heavy rotation on my phone for years, is his Marry Poppins Remix, Expialidocious:
If you like his work, visit pogomix.net for more videos + audio downloads.
