Shepard Fairey is featured in the music video for Death Cab For Cutie’s newest music video for the song “Home Is A Fire”. This video features wheatpasted lyrics and shots of the city of Los Angeles with the occasional shot of Fairey at work in his shop and in the streets. Enjoy the video below and below that, Shepard’s statement on the project. Death Cab For Cutie’s album Codes And Keys, will be available May 31, 2011. (more…)

This stop-motion music video for Oren Lavie’s “Her Morning Elegance” was the inspiration for several Amazon Kindle commercials. You can check it out below if you haven’t seen it yet. More importantly, we were informed via the SUGGESTION BOX that the “Her Morning Elegance Gallery” is offering single edition frames of the video for sale at hmegallery.com. You can watch the video below and check out the stills at the gallery’s website. Full press release included after the break. (more…)

Nabil Elderkin is a great photographer / music video director who has worked with some of the biggest names in rap & r&b. His style is varied and experimental. Check out his portfolio of videos at his website or his vimeo page. More samples below. (more…)

A lot of traditional artists materials went into the making of this poppin video for “A.R.I.Z.O.N.A” by Star Beav.   It appears the track is from 2003.  The video, by Sean Christensen of Square One Cinema, is recent.

As a Tucsonan, I can tell you that many of the strange depictions of this video are true desert imagery; isolated, bizarre and likely ordered by greater oddities from outer space.  See that lizard licking the satellite?  A shape shifter. (more…)

Frontman of The Flaming Lips Wayne Coyne silkscreens a single print in his own blood. The video below shows the process, which includes some pretty horrific squeegee work by the musical maestro. Don’t watch if you’re weird about blood or needles. The video shows him giving the blood in the very beginning. (more…)

Morphologic films a wonder-filled video for WALLS recent title track to album Hang Four.  The video features Sun Coral, Iridescent Ctenophores, Club Hydromedusa jellyfish, and Planktons.   Oh marine biology, could you please come down to earth? HD video below. (more…)

A charming preview to the upcoming Röyksopp album, Senior.

From the creators:
“We had a vision, and in this vision we saw ourselves as a sleeping hobo and an old man respectively. The following is a vivid depiction of some of the events that occurred during an intended stay in Barbieland. And remember, It’s a true story….” (more…)

This music video by the band Dancing Pigeons is simple and fascinating. Two hillbillies meet at night. One armed with a flamethrower, the other a fire extinguisher. Their battle is caught completely in slow motion. That’s all you need to know. Video below.

Directed by Tomas Mankovsky. (more…)

All live photography courtesy of Michael Pilmer

If you were to ask any of my close friends how excited I was to about going to see DEVO, they might throw around words like: “obsessive, weird, fan boy, annoying, and of course “Who’s DEVO?”” After a month of bombarding my Facebook page with 30 year old videos and new videos for their new album “Something For Everybody“, the day had finally come to make the journey to see DEVO. I knew it was going to be a good trip because 10 minutes into my drive I saw a rainbow (sadly, not full on double). (more…)

This is one spectacular new animated video for “Strange Enough” by N.A.S.A. ( thats ”North America South America”) featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard of Wu Tang’s last recorded lyrics along side Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The animation is all based on the artwork of Stephan Doitschinoff.

Below you can check out the video, plus a bonus video showing the storyboarding side by side with the final product. (more…)