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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:

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

We’ve all got music videos on the brain, with our video for Tempo No Tempo dropping next week. So when we saw this amazing video for HEALTH, we had to take note and share it with everyone on the blog.

Eric Wareheim has seemingly become the go-to director of the last two years, thanks to his eye-popping work with Flying Lotus, Major Lazer and MGMT. And, although he’s more famous for his “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” with collaborator Tim Heidecker, we’re finding ourselves looking forward to Eric’s directing work with music videos more than his work with Tim.

For his latest, a video for L.A. noise-rockers HEALTH, Wareheim moves out of the surreal cartoon style of his previous work for a dark, disturbing chase story through a forest. Although some of his sketches on “Awesome Show, Great Job!” have hinted at darker influences like David Lynch, this video shows a serious creative leap for Wareheim, with serious emotional payoff at the end of the video.

Of course, it being Eric Wareheim, there has to be some exploding testicles. (Spoiler alert?)

Source: Drowned In Sound

Taken approximately at 2:30 AM towards the end of the Tempo No Tempo video shoot with the amazing Jesse Dana.

We’ll have more updates later in the week, including a guest blog from Tempo No Tempo about their marathon video shoot!

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A quick summary:
- Catch our cable commercial campaign with Sungevity all month!
- Have you seen our videos for the Decibel Festival? If not, you’re missing out.
- We have two new exciting clients: Sonoma-based winery Three Sticks, and SF post-punk band Tempo No Tempo. Get. Excited.


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