We are cooking up something pretty awesome with Wallpaper. We can’t say too much about it right now, except it’s gonna blow your face off. Watch out! If you haven’t already, check out all of their awesome blog videos RIGHT NOW.
Here’s one of our favorites, for “Gettin’ Drip”. It’s a magical dream through VHS spectacularness. Chipmunk soul FTW!
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:
Here it is! Shot in two action-packt days with a fantastic crew (among them our Director of Photography Jesse Dana, and our amazing Art Director/Set Builder Andrew Sellen) in locations in San Francisco and Oakland.
We wanted to play with live, in-camera transitions and effects around a performance-based video. This involved a painstaking amount of choreography, mapping and planning, and it couldn’t have been more worth it.
Directed by Andrew Juncker
Director of Photography: Jesse Dana
Art Director: Andrew Sellen
Assistant Director: Roman Honeycutt
Steadicam: Vincent Cortez
Gaffer: Keith Pikus
Grip: Juan Robles
Edited by Chris Walters & Andrew Juncker
Part musical fantasy and part Tide advert, Michel Gondry’s latest music video for Los Angeles songwriter Mia Doi Todd shines with the usual fantastic cinematography and shows what Gondry does best: takes one good idea and expands it to its limits.
While this video is more lo-fi than Gondry’s previous work, there’s something about this video that borders on saccharine and endearing. The shlubby dancers (actually a marching band from Riverside Community College, I would’ve assumed they were hired through Craigslist) are placed against the stark grays of Los Angeles. My favorite part is the overpass that says ‘SLAYER’.
When asked about the video’s concept, Gondry told Entertainment Weekly, “Basically, L.A. is not made for humans.” Agreed.
- Roman
Yes, another post featuring Mos Def. The video for “History” off last year’s The Ecstatic (if you haven’t got this album yet, you are seriously sleeping) is low-concept, but has a documentary feel, ultimately doing what a music video is supposed to do– highlight the song. Directed by Coodie & Chike (Kanye West’s Jesus Walks) , the clip highlights images from Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s career, along with dashes of hip-hop history thrown in. It’s a really, really good time for backpack rap.
Check out an incredible live performance of the track here, featuring members of the Dirty Projectors and the Roots.
This is “Heaven Can Wait,” the lead video from Charlotte Gainsbourg’s upcoming album IRM, produced by, and occasionally featuring, Mr. Beck Hansen. This is a somberly shot yet wonderfully surreal video that has shades of Dadaism, “Help!” and Sesame Street.
For some reason, I have a feeling this isn’t so much of a stretch from how Beck views day-to-day reality.
Charlotte Gainsbourg “Heaven Can Wait” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
This is what happens when the Black Keys get in touch with Damon Dash (former head of Roc-A-Fella Records). Dubbing the project Blakroc, the Black Keys collaborate with some of the greatest MCs in the game, including Mos Def, Q-Tip, Pharoahe Monch, Raekwon, the RZA, Billy Danze of M.O.P., Ludacris, and more. Pretty incredible, and the videos ain’t so bad, either. You can see, learn, and hear more at their website here.
Blakroc is out late November.