[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/GN-xVSlnWKQ"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Commission an ad agency to do a music video and you will inevitably feel (if not deep regret) some kind of marketing coming through, but partner with an agency as unique as Wieden + Kennedy and you'll get a music video replete with detestable...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/C1l96kIfi3A"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I stumbled on this music video as I bounced around the work of an animator I love Lawrence Becker, and was OVERJOYED to see someone else I have obsessed about for most of my life: Steve Martin. As I listened to the familiar plucky...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/PMivT7MJ41M"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Director Jonathan Lia is such an interesting tale. At a younger age he was interested in filmmaking and cut his teeth at a production company that largely did commercial work. He moved amongst the different film departments, and found himself learning more of the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/7354877"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Brent Knopf of the band Menomena has a solo venture called Ramona Falls and "I Say Fever" is on his debut album. He collaborated with legendary...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/321169750"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was puzzling over what I was seeing (but loving it ofc) until I noticed somewhere that apparently Takoyaki means "Octopus Balls." Suddenly all was made clear! Tokoyo/New York based Illustrator/Animator Sawako Kabuki took this to the place it obviously wanted to go. I...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/391501121"][vc_column_text].[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With the help of Passion Paris, Director and illustrator Jack Antoine Charlot created this free spirited immensely rewatchable music video for the notoriously reclusive artist known as S+C+A+R+R. Charlot has utilized a blend of motion capture and CG to bring to life the shiny...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/58022280"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This music video for Japanese singer/songwriter Shugo Tokumaru is awesome, by directing duo Kasia Kijek and Przemek Adamski (KIJEK/ADAMSKI) What a delight to watch, and to listen to. "Katachi" means "shape," and the video is made with approx. 2000 silhouettes extracted from PVC plates...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/z0PGK7a2IFo"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This 3:15 short film was created by Alex Bodovsky, a Russian born Director (photographer, poet & musician) who made this film – about the Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London - in Macromedia Director (typically a tool for business...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczPlmz-Vug"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This is Regina Spektor's first music video, done largely with stop motion and is a parody of Georges Méliès's silent film "The Diabolic Tenant" (1909) in which a man rents an apartment and furnishes it by unpacking objects from his trunk in the same fashion...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtYEz4OKCn8"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Super fun music video (and song) from 2005. Director Joel Trussell is an LA-based Director and artist well-known for his award winning music videos, Directing the animated sci-fi web series Electric City, and now for his work at Disney Television Animation on the show...