Video of the Week: Lost in the Woods

Filmmaker Ruth Hogben collaborates with award-winning musician Kanye West to create a film for his single Lost in the World. The song, which features Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, is taken from West's fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Hogben's piece breaks the mould of popular rap aesthetics while still celebrating the extraordinary talent that has made West a modern icon.

Video of the Week: CAMERAS

The anachronisms in this video are amazing.  Directed by Jens Hertzum.

Video of the Week: Alles Neu

by German rapper, Peter Fox.  I first saw this a few years back when Kanye West had an awesome blog.  It's an amazing video that is fun to watch. Enjoy.

Video of the Week: The Greeks

"Is Tropical" by the Greeks is an awesome video representing of a boy's imagination, super gory fun.  The video is directed by Megaforce.  Who also directed a 'Video of Week' pick, Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness."


IS TROPICAL - THE GREEKS (official music video) from EL NINO on Vimeo.

Hong Kong Honey

I found this amazing video about a bee keeper in Hong Kong.  Watch, enjoy!

Nokia - HK Honey from The Silentlights on Vimeo.


Directed by Kiku Ohe

(via Fubiz)

Video of the week: Rude Boy

This came out a few months ago, but i really like this video.

directed by Melina Matsoukas

Video of the Week: The Grammy Noms

Here are the videos nominated for the Best Short Form Music Video.

'Mr. Hurricane' by Beast

Directed by Ben Steiger Levine

"Wrong" by Depeche Mode

Directed by Patrick Daughters

my personal favorite of the nominees

"Boom Boom Pow" by Black Eye Peas (winner)

Directed by Matthew Cullen and Mark Kudsi

"Her Morning Elegance" by Oren Lavie

Directed by Merav and Yuvai Nathan, Oren Lavie

you might remember this as a immensely popular meme

"Life in Technicolor II" by Coldplay

Dougal Wilson

cute

My Picks

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Heaven Can Wait by Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg

Directed by Keith Schofield

Pon de Floor by Major Lazer

Directed by Eric Wareheim

wild, crazy video... makes me :) everytime i watch it.

Let the Beat Build by Nyle

Directed by Chadd Harbold

coolest one-take, live recording vid

Day 'N Nite by Kid Cudi

Directed by So-Me

Welcome to Heartbreak by Kanye West

Directed by Nabil

I love the glitch effects, it goes with the song so well

Maledict Car by Jemapur

Directed by Kosai Sekine

Instrumental and most imaged-based, photography-like vid

I cannot claim that i've seen every music video in 2009, but these are my favorites.

Nabil strikes again

Paranoid from kwest on Vimeo.

You might remember Nabil Elderkin from an earlier post. This is his latest video - Kanye West's "Paraniod," which is my favorite dance song on the album and maybe the year.

Major Influences - Mark Romanek

Nine Inch Nails - Closer

This video is one of the biggest influences in my life. It inspired my into a world of art, film and photography. I was twelve years old when this video came out (1994).

Romanek's "Closer" also set a new standard in music video and you can see its influence even today. Throughout the 90's, bands like Prodigy, Marlyn Manson and even tv commercials used this style(basically ripping it off). Even today, music video directors still do it, but now it has diluted to pop singers like Rihanna.

NIN: The Making of the "Closer" Video from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.

In the commentary, Mark Romanek is very knowledgeable artist, funneling several artistic influences (Man Ray, Joel Peter Witkin and Brothers Quay) to set the tone/ theme of this video. You could say he ripped these artists off the same way the videos I mentioned earlier, but he's placing these influences into an entirely different media and genre.

I really like it that he wasn't just doing it because "it looks cool." He meticulously made this elaborate set and took great risks to make this possible. I think this one of the most important things an artist (or anyone) must do to be successful. Take well planned and executed risks. Some of these risks will fail, but you will never know or learn unless you try them.

Here are other amazing videos by Mark Romanek: Janet Jackson, Fiona Apple, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lenny Kravitz to name a very few. They a few similar themes he carries in most of his videos (silhouettes, floating, fun with various forms of lighting)

Sorry for all the hyper link. hope you will enjoy them.

Nabil

Nabil Elderkin is one of my favorite new directors/ photographers. The more works by him I see, the more I like. He recently did Kanye's "welcome to heartbreak" and up and coming artist Mr. Gordon, "there will be tears"

I really like the video distortion look.

MR HUDSON "There Will Be Tears" Directed by: NABIL fx: weirdcore from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.