An awesome achievement of mixed media animation and projection for Iron and Wine’s Joy, from the album Ghost on Ghost, by Hayley Morris which has resulted in something lovely. Iron and Wine is the project of songwriter Sam Beam, and Hayley explained to NPR that the video was made by projecting hand-painted water color animations [...]
A superb video by Dan Sully for Miles Kane’s anthemic Don’t Forget Who You Are, sees a very sharply-dressed Miles going back to his roots, and combines performance with documentary footage to create a very atmospheric, beautifully shot celebration of Liverpool and its people. Dan and his small crew spent three days shooting around the [...]
Watching this video for A-Trak & Tommy Trash is to marvel at the amount of work and ingenuity of Ryan Staake and domino wunderkind Kinetic King – aka Tim Fort. Their dedication to kinetic contraptions and epic domino rallies is to be absolutely admired. Ryan, Tim and their team have created an incredible chasing domino [...]
Peter Sluszka describes what went into his incredibly elaborate mixed media music video for Bat For Lashes’ Lilies. See the full music video here.
An unmistakeable slab of Daniels’ virtuosity graces the video for Passion Pit’s Cry Like A Ghost – about a girl who’s on an emotional rollercoaster – and physically swinging from guy to guy during the course of the video. It almost resembles a horror film at first, shot in a dark forest, but the characteristic [...]
Eighteen months after his remarkable video for The Satellite Year’s implausibly titled Jelly, Jelly, How To Survive Such A Trip?, director and VFX whizz Thorsten Hary has been at it again for the German popster’s latest single, A Campus, A Heart, A Star. He’s created another video that resembles a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, with suitably [...]
A collaboration between Natasha Khan and animation/mixed media master Peter Sluszka has resulted in this diverse and absorbing visual feast for Bat For Lashes’ Lilies – the fourth single from the critically acclaimed album The Haunted Man: life-sized puppets, a flock of 2D spirits, miniature landscapes, morphing polygons, and Natasha herself were animated to create [...]
Following a series of teasers for The Killers’ Battle Born album, Giorgio Testi continues to provide visuals for band. This time he’s assembled a thrilling ‘tour video’ to accompany the album cut Miss Atomic Born. After gaining unprecedented access to dressing room, backstage and tour bus, Giorgio has created a unique and intimate video of [...]
The ever wonderful Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) returns with her third album ‘The Haunted Man’, and heralding her return is director Charlie Targett-Adams, who’s beautifully constructed this explorational short focusing on Natasha’s time off between albums, her retreat to the seaside and the construction of her new work. Charlie’s done a great job of [...]
A sneak peak behind the scenes on the video for DoYaThing – the team-up of Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and James Murphy for Converse’s Three Artists, One Song series. As Jamie Hewlett and his team work their very particular brand of live action/animation magic, Seb Monk directs the Making Of – shot by Seb and Mark [...]
