“Somebody on YouTube was really shocked at the fire dance scene, they found it obscene” Eva Husson’s music video for The Presets latest single ‘If I Know You‘ (links to the video on 2Pause) shows a group of kids on the streets of LA that spontaneously burst out in dance. “Somebody on YouTube was really … Continued
Han Hoogerbrugge, the .gif guru known for his interactive masterpiece Hotel and sumptuous new book / DVD Modern Living has just dropped a tasty new clip for Love Etc by the veterans of uplifting melancholia themselves: that’s right, the Pet Shop Boys! Satisfying boing-boing action reminiscent of Donkey Kong (or indeed Super Mario Bros), takes … Continued
French-Swiss creative duo Ben & Julia just dropped a charming puppet-animation-analogue hybrid clip for a ditty called 1973 by French pop-rockers Tahiti Boy and the Palm Tree Family. A month-long process of puppet-building, felt-tip painting, animating, and shooting in an Alpine forest leaves us with an irresistibly cute composition of mysterious marine creatures, singing trees … Continued
In the same data-moshing vein as Ray Tintori’s recent clip for Chairlift’s Evident Universal, director Nabil just dropped something pixel-morphingly brilliant for Kanye’s new track Welcome to Heartbreak. It looks like there’s a broken DivX codex or some serious keyframe trouble – but that’s the idea. Kanye’s crunchy blippy ditty provides the perfect audio setting … Continued
This sparkly music video for an Obamafied Daft Punk “Aerodynamic” mashup by Adam Freeland, is a fine one to shake celebratory booty to on this hope-and-change-fuelled day for humankind. Directed by the elusive duo at GOLD, the stop motion clip features an army of customized designer toys by the likes of Dalek, Bill McMullen and … Continued
On the always very resourceful website Motionographer you can watch a nice music video by Dutch creative studio Onesize. In this video for The American Dollar’s Anything You Synthesize they recreated a landscape that keeps evolving: not only the seasons change, but also the times of day. Starting with a sort of post-apocalyptic terrain in … Continued
Walter Robot was programmed into existence by a lonely scientist in the music clip for Missed the Boat by indie band Modest Mouse. Since then, Walter (a.k.a Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie) has gone on to direct clips for acts as divese as Vitalic (lo-fi head-nod) and Underoath (rock-o-rama). His latest instalment for the self-proclaimed … Continued
Sure we have respect for those people who spend all their spare time making a Viking boat out of 15 million ice cream sticks or a scale model of the Beijing Olympic Village out of 140000 playing cards, but real admiration we reserve for people like Josh Logue and his crew. For the Australian indie … Continued
Sometimes an image can trigger some happy moments of reminiscence. For instance, a music video that shared quite a lot of familiarities with the work of Chris Cunningham, started us to wonder what ever happened to Cunningham. We wrote a few words on this and a visitor of SubmarineChannel asked us if we heard anything … Continued
You probably did, but if you haven’t yet, we urge you to watch the new music video Who’s Gonna Save My Soul of Gnarls Barkley, directed by Chris Milk. The tragic break-up story and the soulful music go so wonderfully together in this video. And the image of the singing hearth that walks down the … Continued
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