Tag: music videos
Tan Mom’s music video opens on a shot of Tan Mom greenscreened over the sun, because the sun makes you tan and because tan mom is the light and the warmth around which our planet revolves. A few shots later–after The Luckiest Guy in The Universe mingles shirtless with Tan Mom and gently cups her […]
“In the Dark,” the latest video from L.A.-based producer and Brainfeeder mainstay Gaslamp Killer, features whirling Mevlevi dervishes, kaleidoscopic images of trees in the snow, and a very scary woman with both eyes and skin the same morbid, icy shade of blue. Meaning yes, it’s every bit as much a wonderfully disorienting journey as the […]
We’ve seen decisive moments captured in Google Street View by photographers Michael Wolf. We’ve seen the cinematic edge of rough neighborhoods in Doug Rickard work. We loved how Clement Valla explored the glitching of the real world through this interface. Steve Strip’s video for “Hood” is all of those things, plus live capture of swooping in bird-eye […]
Mac DeMarco gives the most charismatic acting performance by a musician this side of “Yonkers” in the clip for “My Kind of Woman,” his latest single. Directed by Alex Lill, the film opens on DeMarco putting on lipstick, then follows the songwriter through a saga that’s equal parts Blue Velvet (as Nowness points out), and the Beaver Trilogy. “We […]
Musician and Baltimore scene figurehead Dan Deacon’s latest tribute to his adopted hometown (he has released several) comes in the form of this GIF-packed video for “Konono Ripoff N°1,” starring a host of luminaries from Baltimore’s ridiculously vibrant art and music scene–including Ed Schraeder, Dina Kelberman, Jimmy Joe Roche, Nolen Strals of Post Typography and Double […]
When’s the last time you saw a traditional music video that made your jaw drop in the same way that, say, Michel Gondry’s “Sugar Water” clip for Cibo Matto did? I’ll wait a minute. How about an interactive video–a little easier, right? There’s OKFocus’s Photoshop-emulating clip for Tanlines, this crowdsourced video made of Vines, Chris […]
After a long string of “faggots” and misguided beefs, here’s a welcome reminder of why you cared about Azealia Banks in the first place. Over a throbbing, snare-heavy track from Lil Internet, Azealia delivers her characteristically slippery verses in a flat monotone before hitting a cathartic distorted yell for the hook. And the video–oh, the […]
You’re up early-ish. Here’s your reward. Prolific French artist and video designer Michaël Borras aka Systaime just made this datamosh and 8-bit cover of our favorite “net-artist” Rihanna’s “Stay” featuring Mikky Ekko. (Datamosh is cool, datamosh is grea-a-at.) Seriously hypnotizing, thanks for making this. Why did he make this? For the fun. 😉 Here’s Systaime’s Rhianna with just datamosh: Here’s […]
For yet another artistic example of why Vine is the most exciting social media platform going, take a look at the music video for Masters in France’s “Flexin,” which automatically populates itself with clips based tagged with words from the song’s lyrics. If a verse includes the word “high,” for example, and you once Vined […]
It seems once an element of pop culture is aged enough, curators deem it worthy of the museum. In 2010, Seattle Art Museum mounted “Kurt,” a completely serious exhibition on “Seattle’s greatest cultural export,” Kurt Cobain. Last week, Pac-Man and other arcade games opened at the MoMA. It’s been over a decade since MTV stopped […]
