This Interactive Led Zeppelin Video Is Almost Too Great
April 14, 2015 | Liam Mathews
To celebrate the 40th anniversary reissue of Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin teamed up with Interlude and Prettybird and director Hal Kirkland to make a super cool interactive video for “Brandy & Coke,” an early rough mix of what was later known as “Trampled Under Foot,” or “Led Zeppelin’s Stevie Wonder song.”
The video allows viewers to click on a window of the iconic Physical Graffiti tenement (located on St. Mark’s Place, by the way) and be transported inside, joining in on whatever mischief is going on in that apartment. You can then warp through the walls into the neighboring apartment. It’s a lot like Interlude’s interactive Bob Dylan video from a couple of years ago, just way funkier. It’s essentially 17 music videos in one, with a mix of archival footage, animation, and great dancing.
The graffiti in this timelapse video is great--Australian writer SOFLES absolutely crushes a complex of abandoned buildings--but just as impressive is the video itself. Shooter/editor Selina Miles keeps the camera moving around the buildings throughout the complex, which, for timelapse photography, is both technically challenging and just really nice to…
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He's also one of the original founders of ANIMAL. When Matt and I first launched ANIMAL in 2003, we had no idea what the fuck we were doing, but it quickly became clear that graffiti was definitely going to play a role, as I began to realize his obsession with…
