What I love about “Copenhagen” is that it is as much director Dave Willis’s work as it is Lucinda Williams’s. Music videos used to be only about promoting the artist. That made them no better than a commercial. That same could actually be said about many of the songs themselves. But when a musician is [...]
Through their Musicians Wanted program, YouTube is reaching out to the underground music scene and fast tracking musicians through the YouTube partner application process. This is really good news for independent artists. And now that program has extended to countries all over the world.
Before there was “Pants On The Ground” there was…
DJ Earworm has created a mashup masterpiece with “United State of Pop 2009 (Blame it on the Pop)” By chopping the audio and video clips from the top Billboard top 25, Earworm has achieved something truly amazing here. The end result is much much greater than the sum of its parts. Our hats are off [...]
Here’s a really cool music video by Esteban Diácono created entirely in After Effects with the Trap Code plugins from Red Giant. The song is Ljósið by Ólafur Arnalds. It represents a beautiful execution of a very simple idea. The results are poetic.
This is a great example of a a low budget music video done right. Thanks to Gut Perry (the main actor) for posting this on YouTube. It now has almost 200,000 views. The total budget for this video was about $200 (no kidding!).
OFFICIAL VIDEO- Marty Falle’s hit song, “Hoochie Coochie Gal From the Buckeye State” from the album, Ohio.
What I love about “Copenhagen” is that it is as much director Dave Willis’s work as it is Lucinda Williams’s. Music videos used to be only about promoting the artist. That made them no better than a commercial. That same could actually be said about many of the songs themselves. But when a musician is willing to let go and recognize the video director as a fellow artist, then you can tell that they are sincere about creating art. It underscores the fact that Lucinda Williams is confident in the strength of her work without having to call in the glam squad. I think that Willis’s interpretation, rather than distracting from the song, actually focuses our attention on the emotions that are there in a way that a more traditional music video would have missed. Bravo.
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