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There are some directors who, in my opinion, simply can’t do wrong and Terri Timely is one of them. “Synesthesia” is one of my favourite shorts ever and then they recently backed it up with their vid for St. Vincent’s “Marrow.”
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This basically blows my mind. A “handdrawn videoresponsive video exploration” (fuck yes!) by Belgian animator Gwen Vanhee.

This reminds me of Lite Brite. And basically anything that reminds me of Lite Brite is guaranteed win. Animate by Joe Lea for Laurel Collective’s “Fax of Death.”

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I just got hard. Anything involving the visual interpretation of music is pretty exciting. Not just a music video, per se. A lot of the time, music videos are just a literal translation or version of a video. Song bumps, it’s in a club, booties shake, the end. Song is slow, singer holds someone, they [...]

11 years ago tonight, a beautiful young wisp of a man lay comatose and bleeding to death in a hospital in Wyoming. 10 years and 364 days ago, I realized for the first time that there were people in the world whose hearts were so black they would kill me simply for being gay.
This was [...]

This kicks serious ass. It’s a chromatic hovering expanding blossom of goodness. Created by Daniel Franke to “One Minute” by Ryoji Ikeda.

A magical video for Ghostly International artist Lusine’s “Two Dots.” Directed by Britta Johnson, it lives at the geometric intersection of mathematics and emotion. Where love and passion follow concisely laid out scientific laws and there’s a theorum to neatly explain the trajectory of desire.

To create her works, which she calls glass pyrographs, Tokyo-born, Seattle-based artist Etsuko Ichikawa trails streams of molten glass, Jackson Pollock-like, across paper.
The resulting tendrils of ash, lacy yet fire-scarred, are both jagged and flowing. Like lightning piercing a very dry forest,  the organic reaction between fire, air, and earth is elemental. Cycles of existence [...]

Design/Animation: Psyop
Directors: Marie Hyon and Marco Spier
Executive Producer: Justin Booth-Clibborn
Producer: Lucia Grillo
Flame Artist: Eben Mears
Lead 3-D Artist: Pakorn Bupphavesa
3D Artists/Animators: Laurent Barthelemy, Alvin Bae, Todd Akita, Kevin Estey, Damon Ciarelli, Dave Barosin, Jason Goodman, Lutz Vogel, Mate Steinforth, Ajit Menon
2D/Rotoscope: Ella Boliver, J Bush, BeeJin Tan
Junior Flame: Jaime Aguirre
Editor: Brett Goldberg
Music: Q Department
Producer: Julie Hurwitz
Composer: Drazen Bosnjak

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Producer: Raffaela Saccone
Senior Design Director: Rodger Belknap
Vice President: Romy Mann

Obviously, any exploration into the connection between colour, memory, emotion, and imagination is right up my alley. I could watch this all day long.
“DreamF Focus” is part of an on-going visual investigation into dreams by Adam Joy:
“Color is as much a symbol as is the imagery in a dream. Color appears to represent the emotional [...]

Sometimes the only thing left to do to beat the heat is to squirt orange soda pop at your dog. Yes? Yes.
Food fights, awesome. Water fights, awesome. Soda fights, awesomer. Matthew Lessner’s vid for Fool’s Gold’s “Surprise Hotel”, awesomest.
Lessner also directed the recent kickass vid for Dirty Projector’s “Stillness Is The Move.”

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Again, my love for all things Japanese rears its head. If only I could find something Japanese that sucks, but I can’t, because everything Japanese is awesome.
Again, the sleek but empty urban digital Japanese-vibe fills this epic but intimate vid for Sally Shapiro’s ‘Miracle”, directed by Will Joines. In big cities we can live our [...]

Crazy cool vid for Francisca Valenzuela’s “Peces.” Not a clue what she’s saying, but the stylization and animation in this vid is incredible.
Google tells me “peces” translates as “clay wetted for making mud walls.” Which doesn’t sound quite as incendiary as I was imagining from the cold frenzy of the vid. So maybe it’s wrong.  [...]

Besides thumping some bass you can feel in your rib cage, the self-directed vid for Kelpe’s “Microscope Contents” takes it a step further by actually diving into your rib cage. It’s like an electro-version of “Inner Space.”

I love so much about this. First, I’ve been listening to this tune all day long. Besides being an incredible song, New Orleans-based trio Home Video created an intriguing (and inexpensive) video for their track “You Will Know What To Do” by re-editing and re-imagining archival footage from NASA.
Second, there’s something so simple and poignant [...]

This fucked me up. It also brings up some of the questions of where ethics and art converge. For me, that argument always brings up the incredibly controversial and possibly borderline psychotic work of Marco Evarissti. Here, it’s examined again by Danish filmmaker Andreas Iversen.

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Douglas Coupland is a genius. I’ve read everything he’s ever published, and he was one of the first authors who transitioned me from a sort of education-based reading automaton to an actual passion for how pop culture, modernity, and the beauty of everyday details can me imbued into writing. I love this man with all [...]

I first started following directing duo Terri Timely after their insane video “Synesthesia”, easily one of my top ten for 2009.
And since brilliant musicians look to work with brilliant directors, they were tapped by St. Vincent to create this awesome vid for “Marrow.” Watch and behold:

Argentine street artist Blu made huge waves on the net a while ago with his incredible street art/stop motion vido “Muto.”
His latest is a collaborative piece with David Ellis. It looks like this would take forever. Even if it’s not your aesthetic, you can’t help but be blown away by the intensity of the process…

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