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Nicholas Wayman Harris

For Alabama Shakes&#39; Sound &amp; Color, James Frost&nbsp;takes us on board a spacecraft - stylishly designed by Eric Archer, with a big debt to Kubrick&nbsp;- where crew member&nbsp;(Kenneth Morgan)&nbsp;wakes from deep slumber.Disorientated and gripped by powerful flashbacks to his previous life,&nbsp;this astronaut&#39;s sense of despair is increasingly palpable &ndash; and eventually overwhelming.&nbsp;Frost&#39;s video&nbsp;engages, creates a character you can root for, and leaves you wanting more.

United States

James Frost

Sam Khazaeni

Honey Badger

Gower Frost

David Myrick

Las Bandas Be Brave

Eric Archer

The Artery

Yfat Neev

Vico Sharabani And Todd Sarsfield

Ryan Cunningham

Christopher Lopez

Ricky Gausis

Cynthia Lee, Gizmo Rivera

Abisayo Adejare

Emalee Arroyo

Kenneth Morgan

Kim Landers

Anthony Edwards Jr.

Matthew Ayriss

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Alabama Shakes 'Sound & Color' by James Frost

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"They told me not to smoke drugs, but I never listened..." sings My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, and the lyric couldn't be a more fitting introduction to James Frost's wild, psychedelic trip of a video for Outta My System - which starts in live action, slips into 2D animation, and includes a pop-up cameo by comedian Zach Galifianakis (the animated version). 
James Frost - now at new his new production company Honey Badger - makes a departure into animation with the Outta My System video, which sees a 2D one-eyed MMJ journey down the rabbit hole and through a lair with enough twists and turns that at one point the band's flying through a planet full of robo-eyes, and, at another, they're landing among satellites crashing into a desert landscape with rigs that pump oil through mechanized, Egyptian pyramids. And then, if that wasn't trippy enough, the animated Zach Galifianakis makes a cameo as an evil wizard, whose cape and hat are somehow made more menacing over his pullover sweater and cargo pants.

"I knew I always wanted to create a story that ended up where we began," says James Frost of the video's surprise, circular ending. "I liked the idea that because we were going into an animated world we could do whatever we wanted."

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=oPYQHQ4-kKo

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Gigi Ng, Keith Sullivan, Mark French, Greg Cutler, Ricky Weissman

Sal Malfitano

Boo Wong

My Morning Jacket 'Outta My System' by James Frost

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As has been reported everywhere already, Radiohead have done it again. Their new video, directed by James Frost at Zoo, was shot without cameras.
The video was created with two different laser-scanning technologies: the Geometric Informatics system - a scanner that uses structured light to capture detailed 3D images at close proximity - and the Velodyne lidar (light detection and ranging) system that scans large environments in 3D.
The Geometric system was used to capture Thom Yorke's performance, the female lead's performance, and several close-ups in the party scene, while the Velodyne lidar system was used to capture the exterior scenes as well as the wide party shots.
This highly experimental work is apparently the first video to be premiered on Google Code, a popular destination for the scientific community. And there is another fascinating dimension to this: after the controversial 'pay what you like' download offer of In Rainbows last year, Radiohead's latest innovation is to make the new video "open source".
Visitors to the <a href="http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/">Google Code page</a> can download the data used in the promo to produce their own interpretation of the promo. And it's already starting to happen: there are at least two dozen new versions of the video already up on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/group/houseofcards">YouTube group</a> that's been set up.
Appropriately enough, the whole project came about in unusual circumstances, as James Frost explains in an account of the making of the video <a href="http://www.glossyinc.com/zoo/radioheadhouseofcards.html">here</a> and on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=cyQoTGdQywY&amp;hl">making of film</a>.
James approached Radiohead directly, surmising that it would be this band above all others who would be interested in exploiting the new technology and embarking on what was effectively "an expensive experiment".
But he has used data visualization before, in his previous video, for Interpol's Rest My Chemistry. Frost co-directed the Interpol video with Mary Fagot at Zoo's sister company Blip Boutique.
That's where Frost and Fagot hooked up with Aaron Koblin, a data visualiser who enabled them to use data-mapping technology more commonly used for air traffic control in a far more creative way.
Rest My Chemistry is, at least initially, quite abstract, beautiful, powerful and wonderfully hypnotic. And the fact it was made meant Frost could go to Radiohead's management with the confidence he could pull off something as groundbreaking as the House Of Cards video.

Blip Boutique

Blip Boutique (James Frost and Mary Fagot)

Dawn Fanning

Radiohead’s House of Cards by James Frost – and Interpol’s Rest My Chemistry by Blip Boutique

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