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we love that you love our lovely video

April 27, 10 //
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The love for our new Tempo No Tempo video just keeps spreading. Like Parkay. Or a flesh-eating virus. The latest to share some of the love is Wired. More specifically, their blog the Underwire (don’t try to search for it on Twitter, you’ll only get tweets about bras). Here’s some of the awesomeness they’re unleashing upon their readers:

“A claustrophobic basement becomes a trippy house of mirrors in this slick new video from San Francisco indie-rock band Tempo No Tempo and French Press Films.

The beautifully shot video takes a simple idea and executes it well. On top of that, it really fits with the energy of the music.

San Francisco production house French Press Films ‘took our really vague ideas (performance-based, visual, psychedelic) and gave us the pitch for this M.C. Escher-like moving space,’ Tempo No Tempo singer Tyler McCauley told Wired.com in an e-mail. ‘Which turned out way crazier than we had expected. They managed to do all these crazy effects with camera angles and sets, which had us doing a few weird things as far as angles and moving around tight spaces, including shoving me around with a dolly and dropping me onto crash mats.’

Wait, you haven’t seen it yet? Good GOD, man! Watch it here:

No thanks, Jabbawockeez

January 7, 10 //
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Sometimes we’re stuck doing enough work that we forget to make our rounds on the blogosphere, so it’s been a while since we’ve checked out one of our favorite blogs, Yes Yes Y’all. Excellently curated, designed and updated, the blog regularly collects both our favorite videos (Loofa Time) and our favorite music (The XX, Nosaj Thing…).

So we weren’t surprised when we found another gem posted about a week ago by YYY:

Thanks to MTV’s “America’s Next Best Dance Crew,” we forgot that breakdancing can actually be kind of great, especially when paired with a simple weird concept and an eye for eerie parallels in cinematography. Maybe we just fell off the breakdance boat after the Ice-T MC’ed pinnacle in “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” or maybe saying that we didn’t like breakdancing because of MTV is saying we decided to hate food after watching too much “Iron Chef America.”

Either way, this video is what we’d imagine the dance-off in “Beat It” would feel like, if you were neckdeep in Kubrick films and psychedelics. Cold, crisp, and really rad.