After The Runaways, what music biopic comes next? Don Cheadle has signed on to play Miles Davis. Forest Whitaker will soon star as Louis Armstrong. Someday maybe the Janis Joplin and Jeff Buckley movies will be made. In the meantime, enjoy "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" - JM
This is a truly special video link if you're into gay disco dancing, male nudity, and awesome songs. EXTREMELY NSFW
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Your favorite music video for the next 2 minutes: Sentimental by Onili.
Video By Onili & Boaz Aquino :DS
So, admidst all the conversations about Chatroulette's marketing potential, some enterprising video editor went ahead and gave the medium a chance. Mind you, this isn't actually on behalf of Fancy Feast, and it's not entirely revolutionary, but it IS more than just shouting out loud.
I don't believe for a second that this guy isn't trying to get himself a job doing viral marketing campaigns on ChatRoulette.
He even admits to making this "spec ad specifically for the medium" which we all know is industry slang for "Hire me, crowdsourcing ad agency!" -- DG
Hey, right at 2:30 you can spot Adam from Mythbusters making a cameo as the drowning kid!
Hunter S. Thompson Calls Tech Support About His Home Entertainment System. --MM
Your favorite video for the next five minutes: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck, "Heaven Can Wait." (The comments on Antville are getting better. I like: "This video looks too random, like the director spent too much time looking through his FFFFOUND folder.")
'ville.2k. Antville releases its best 101 best music videos of the decade.
Jay-Z made that "Death of Auto-Tune" thing into a video? Why does he look like Lenny Kravitz in it? And why is there a poker match in the middle? [via Faris, who has an "augmented" version]
There's a new video of Leighton Meister on the internet. No, not that video! This one, a video from Cobra Starship [snicker]. The plot is pretty much an episode of Gossip Girl, and except for that breakdown bridge at the end, it's pretty good, right?
New 50 Cent vid: "I'll Do Anything." He really needs to visit Kanye's tailor.
So apparently that last Gossip video for "Heavy Cross" wasn't the official one? Because there's now a new one. Actually, in this age of multiple videos for singles, is the idea of "official" officially obsolete? Whatever, this is the only song you need to listen to this summer.
If you missed it last week, that Kanye/Rihanna video is back on YouTube, officially.
It's music video day, I guess. There's a new Bat For Lashes: "Pearl's Dream." Sadly, she's turning into Tori Amos much too quickly.
My favorite part of the new video for The-Dream's "Walking on the Moon" (directed by Hype Williams) is not the strange recreations of the Millennium Falcon. It's when Kanye teleports onto the holodeck with the confused Barbarella supermodel.
When it comes to music videos, is anyone out there even still trying to create the epic? Kanye tosses out the occasional ode to MTV yesteryear, but no one else seems invested in the grand narrative arc. With that prelude, say what you will about Lady GaGa, but her new video for "Paparazzi" is conceptually.... something. Perez Hilton himself says: "It is her strongest work to date. It is a mini-film. It is art. It is visual pornography. It is satire. It is commentary. It is brilliant! And, we are NOT exaggerating." Okay then! See also: GaGa channeling Madonna channeling Warhol, and big dicks.
New Eclectic Method: The Tarantino Mixtape. [via]
The most watched viral videos of all time. 18 videos have had over 100 million views.
Two new "video discovery" things: Nizmlab & Reddit.tv. See also: Twitmatic.
A music vid practically made for Friday blogging: "Kitty Get Down," The Ropes. (Also, note the conversation about the "metaphor" of the kitty. C'mon, we all know what that kitty means.)
Gondry is releasing a second DVD of music videos, which will include Radiohead's "Knives Out" and Beck's "Cellphone's Dead," among others.
Urlesque is counting down The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos this week.
If you're in L.A. this weekend, you might wanna check out The Streamys. I hear Joss Whedon will be there. Here are the nominees.
Your favorite new Kanye video for the next five minutes: "Welcome To Heartbreak". Interesting use of compression artifacts as the visual. Update: Hipster Runoff's take. Update update: Oh, I guess Kottke got to it too. I'm behind this week.
The best part of Emily's little collection Moments That Mattered in video this year was the accompanying video, another multi-screen creation from Small Mammal. [via]
Pretend it's 1995 again: Chloe Sevigny stars in Beck's new video (for "Gamma Ray"). [via]
Your favorite new Christina Aguilera video for the next five minutes: "Keeps Gettin' Better."
Previously an unbearable download, Joost has relaunched as a web-based app. Its competition will be Hulu, iTunes, and YouTube, in that order.
LonelyGirl15 is back with a new online series. It's something called Sorority Fever. Tilzy has a trailer, the most of this that you'll watch.
Andrew has been hinting at this for a while: Sony Pictures acquires cross-platform distribution of Rocketboom. Sounds similar to Veronica's deal, but maybe it's more? Update from TechCrunch: Seven-figure deal.
An update from the Girl Talk video project from a couple days ago: "What's It All About", my favorite track on the record.
Least favorite Buffy episode? The musical. I KNOW, IT'S YOUR FAVORITE. Whatevski. You'll probably love Joss Whedon's newest project, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. I wish I were gayer. [via]
Okay, I kinda love when Nick does his Ira Glass / "Best of Craigslist" thing.
I caught Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine at a live taping of The Sound of Young America a few weeks ago and now the video is up! (Ze Frank was also on.)
Jonah Peretti and others talk about viral videos on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
Trailer to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon's web-only project. [via]
Tilzy: This Animated American Life, featuring a Chris Ware toon.
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. [via]
This shouldn't surprise me, but it sorta does... add SuperDeluxe.com to the dead pool.
And now, your moment of xenophilia: Charlie the Unicorn 2 (the original).
PeoplesCourtRaw.com. Upload two opposing videos, the public votes on which is better. [via]
Heffernan's NYT Mag column is crackling this week. "Broadcast Spoofs" examines the Onion News Network, noting the distinctly midwestern flavor:
By contrast, fancy, coastal visual comedy -- 30 Rock, The Sarah Silverman Program, Curb Your Enthusiasm -- has a strongly aspirational element to it, with protagonists mired in what Joni Mitchell once called rich people's problems (real estate, restaurants, relationships). They comparison-shop values like consumerism and thinness, glamour and goodness, Obama and Clinton.
The Onion shrugs at these choices. Indifferent and impassive before overblown moral showdowns, The Onion offers only contempt, impotence and blank depression.
Ouch! It's a tepid rave, which is why it's pretty interesting.
Karina crams Wong Kar-Wai, Kanye West, and Werner Herzog into one post -- like I'm not gonna link to that pshit.
"Hi, we made a really successful thing on the internet and we'd like to collect our money." Includes appearances by Tay Zonday, Chris Crocker, Tron guy, Numa Numa guy, Star Wars kid, Afro ninja, sneezing panda, laughing baby, and dramatic look gopher. SPOILER ALERT! They all die in the end.
Weird, a bunch of news just broke in videoblog land: Yahoo 9 ends run, Veronica is leaving Mahalo Daily, 60 Frames to produce the post-Lonelygirl15 series, and Epic-Fu could get a TV run.
lonelygirl15 is alive! Or rather, she (Jessica Lee Rose) is going to star in another online series (hahah, you thought I was going to say movie). This time it's something called Blood Cell [trailer] reports Hollywood Reporter. [via]
My pal Pete's list of the Top 20 Videos of All Time has some fantastic hidden and forgotten finds. (The Minutemen did a video?)
Officially announced from YouTube: how to change your player settings to see higher quality videos. I know a thousand videobloggers who are freaking out at this very moment. [via]
One of the dudes from Radio Lab curates Video Digest on The Morning News. Lots of good stuff, but I'm mostly intrigued to learn that John Zorn made Japanese porn music. [via]
Alright, ALRIGHT! That new Feist video. No more emails! (I don't understand what you people hear in this, but whatevs.)
New online video ventures that want to do financial news? Let's see, we've got Scoble, CNN Money, CBS' WallStrip, Yahoo's TechTicker, Bloomberg's CEO show -- plus whatever CNET and FBN are already doing. Crowded much?
New Moby video: "Alice". This isn't popular to say, but I'm looking forward to the new Moby record. [via]
To coincide with the release of In Rainbows, Radiohead has released four new videos (warning: it's one of those annoying iTunes-launching links).
FWIW, Portfolio gave FunnyOrDie.com the full feature treatment. Still not sure if I'm thumbs-up or thumbs-down on this one in 2008.
New video for M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes," in which she hands out hoagies to the Beastie Boys. Update: Stereogum has more deets.
The last thing I worked on before leaving msnbc.com was the videoplayer. Actually, it was also the first thing I worked on when I started. Sometimes, it takes a long time for change to happen. Anyway, the new player launched in Beta today. Jim anthropomorphizes the video scene.
The 10 Most Ridiculous Things About the Beyonce Experience. Update from the comments: there's also The 10 Most Ridiculous Comments Left for the 10 Most Ridiculous Things About The Beyonce Experience.
New Bangers & Cash video that is so very nsfw. And awe-som-eeeee.
Just when you thought about giving up on Bjork, along came her new video for "Declare Independence," directed by (doy) Michel Gondry.
In case you missed it, Takeshi Murakami directed the new Kanye video for "Good Morning," complete with animated teddy bear. Those in LA shouldn't miss the Murakami show at MOCA (his Superflat exhibit at the Walker back in 2001 was stellar).
Tay is back! But sadly he's back as some sort of viral ad for Dr. Pepper's new cherry chocolate soda. The video is cool, but I don't know if this story could have ended much sadder. [via]
An hour after the weekend has started, I finally got around to watching this week's internet sensation: quarterlife. If you haven't been paying attention, it's a video series appearing on MySpace (profiles!) that users will supposedly be able to control the outcome of. Though it's from the creators of My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething, it reminds me more of Reality Bites than anything else (right down to the misuse of the word irony). NY Mag interviewed the lead actress (say it with me: Bitsie Tulloch -- you're gonna hear it all the time now). Karina gave the first episode a thumbs down, but rumors are still circulating that NBC might pick it up. My opinion? It kinda sucks and I love it -- both at the same time. UPDATE: In the comments, Colin links to an amazing MTV promo for something called "The Spot" from 1995. And whaddya know, NBC actually bought quarterlife in the few hours since I wrote this post.
NY Mag puts a twist on the "what are you reading?" celebrity aggregation: What Are Celebrities Watching on YouTube? Also, in case you missed it earlier this week, they also did an awesome curated tour of hot web video.
Videoville is a wiki for music video links and information (directors, bands, etc.).
Could it be... could it be true? Could Ze Frank be back? He has posted a new clip.
Wired story on Vice's VBS.tv. For an interesting comparison, see this month's Radar story (not online yet), which details the reemergence of the founders of DEN, basically the VBS of its day.
If you played Zork, you'll find pure brilliance in MC Frontalot's new video for "It's Pitch Dark".
Peaches visits Mayberry, causing a jealous rivalry between Andy and Barney. See also: Top 10 Bizarre Music Videos.
Favorite new video: The Mitchell Brothers' "Michael Jackson." [via]
Do you care that there's a new Marilyn Manson video? I don't, but this is excellent: a young Manson on Donahue from a million years ago.
This new Akon video is awesome. The word count on "sorry" must be near four digits -- he apologizes incessantly for... I have no idea, but he's even taking the blame for things he hasn't done yet. Does that work? Me too! (His nobility shines at the end as he apologizes for that dry-humping a 14-year-old incident. Except, if you listen closely, he blames some one else... but is very sorry, nonetheless.)
How'd this happen? I actually like most of the nominees on the MTV VMAs this year.
Imagine if 50 Cent used the technology in Minority Report to recreate the porn scenes of Eyes Wide Shut, and you've pretty much got the vid for "Ayo Technology", which also features Timberlake as, I guess, the voyeur who sings "Ayo, I'm tired of using technology." Indeed.
Just a random reminder of better times: video to Paula Abdul's "Cold Hearted". Those Graduate-esque between-the-legs shots are from none other than director David Fincher.
This has been one of the worst weeks in recent memory, so it seems important for us to visit the sublime weirdness that is Billy Ocean's "Loverboy" video as a reminder that things could be much.... more surreal.
Someone needs to explain to me what Kanye is saying with this video with Zach Galifianakis and Will Oldham.
And now, your moment of zen: Let The Bodies Hit The Floor.
You already know I love posts like this: music videos + architecture = Video-tecture! So many good vids in there. [via]
Awesome "video slideshow essay" (my quotes, cuz I don't know what else to call it) from Slate.com: How YouTube is Ruining Hip-Hop. [via]
12 years ago: Liz Phair performing "Fuck & Run" live. My how times have changed.
I don't know what's up with all the music links here lately... maybe it's summer. Anyway, new Smashing Pumpkins video: "Tarantula."
I'm not sure what the third-world message is for the new Chemical Brothers video, "Do It Again," but it sure makes the Moroccans dance. New album drops in a couple weeks.
New awesome Kanye video: "Stronger," which features a sample from Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," which you remember linked here a couple days ago. Kanye's new album, Graduation, drops mid-August.
Vimeo relaunched, and the short clip that introduces the new site on the homepage manages to subtly slip in everything that's wrong with YouTube without even saying "YouTube." [via]
New Amy Winehouse vid: "Tears Dry on Their Own", directed by David La Chapelle.
Video for Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." Good.
Patti Smith covering "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Video directed by Jem Cohen.
R. Kelly and Usher do a song together in which they discover they are both dating the.... Same Girl! Favorite song of the year!
New Timberlake vid: "LoveStoned." Points for weird visuals. From the same director, Robert Hales, who did Gnarles' "Crazy."
Ever wondered if you have epilepsy? Check out MIA's new website. Also there's a new video: "Boyz," which is not nearly as good as the last, "Bird Flu."
Cool-looking video by some band I've never heard of for a song I've already forgotten. Dice! (Okay, it's Fujiya & Miyagi's "Ankle Injuries." See?) [via]
Someone apparently told Poison that there's this great new invention called Facebook, but misheard it and instead made a video about a yearbook. This is like a seven layer nostalgia cake.
Miranda July stars in the new Blonde Redhead video, directed by Mike Mills.
User-generated video shows are all the rage right now. ABC, for instance, just announced one called i-Caught, CNN has started News To Me, etc.
New Kanye vid: "Can't Tell Me Nothing." New album not out until Fall.
I caught a great set from LCD Soundsystem last night in Seattle. Best song: "All My Friends," which has a new video.
Following up to a post last month, Discover has the finalists to the "String Theory in Two Minutes or Less" video contest.
I really thought we worked in a fun office, until I saw all these crazy young hot people dancing and lip synching to a Harvey Danger song. Way better than that last sentence sounds. (It's the Busted Tees / College Humor / Vimeo kids.)
Boo. It looks like the Director's Label Series is probably dead. [via]
My three favorite music vids right now: Tokyo Police Club, Battles, and DJ Mehdi. All awesome in their own way.
Why the hell Metric is releasing videos for songs from albums that came out three years ago... I have no idea. But I sure do love me some Emily Haines: "Empty."
The Go! Team made a video for their lyric-less song "Junior Kickstart" that was clearly inspired by PacManhattan.
The video from Low for "Breaker" is exactly like something that Thom Yorke would do in his spare time. (The new album is okay, but I can't help feeling Low is trapped in a space where ingenuity ceases to exist.)
Since I know you've got nothing else going on, how about watching all 2 hours and 47 minutes of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent on Google Video? [via]
More proof that everyone wants a piece of the video pie: The Onion is investing $1 million and hiring 15 staff writers to create a video service known as the Onion News Network. Preview.
New Hold Steady video for "Stuck Between Stations," the song about John Berryman, who, for those that don't know, was a poet who threw himself off the Washington bridge in Minneapolis. But it's also the song with the best line of last year: "She was a really good kisser, and she wasn't all that strict of a Christian. She was a damn good dancer, but not all that great of a girlfriend."
New NIN video: "Survivalism". I really don't think the sing-along works in this song.
New Modest Mouse video (with Johnny Marr on axe): "Dashboard". Sound exactly like The Smiths. Kidding!
Although it's difficult to imagine a scenario where I would link to a Snow Patrol video, here we go: the new video for "Open Your Eyes" is actually footage from the 1976 cult film C'était un rendez-vous which involves director Claude Lelouch breaking all kinds of traffic laws. [via]
I've linked to most of these in the past, but here's a post that collects all the infographic music videos.
Scarlett Johansson stars in the new Justin Timberlake video, "What Goes Around Comes Around," which can only be described with one word: hot. Okay, and a little weird. (See also: NYT on Timberlake's unusual fan base: hipsters.)
Grizzly Bear's video for "Knife", which is the weirdest coolest thing I've seen this year. Sorta like David Lynch's Dune meets Yellow Submarine meets Rube Goldberg.... or not. (See also: it took over six months to make.)
No one makes the third world look as hot at M.I.A. does. New vid for "Bird Flu".
Chuck Olsen has released all of Blogumentary on Google Video. If you've never seen it, check it out -- it contains interviews with Jason Kottke, Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmor, Joe Trippi, and others. Although it seems like I've known Chuck forever, we didn't hang out until I did a story on Blogumentary in City Pages, and our conversations ended up inspiring the launch of MNspeak. On his blog, Chuck mentions the copyright concerns that prevented him from releasing it earlier, but he hopes YouTube has ushered in a new age of thinking.
No joke this time: Viacom is demanding all its video be pulled from YouTube. Bye-bye, Daily Show. [via]
Google Video Recommendations, "based on your search history, ratings and viewing patterns." Uh-oh.
New Bloc Party vid: "I Still Remember." Love me some Bloc Party, but this song is soft.
I could link to video of Bush's speech last night, but somehow this crazy debate on al-Jazeera is much more emblematic. (New approval rating: 26%.)
Google Video is quietly testing ads in the middle of streams. For example, in this stream of physicist Lisa Randall on Charlie Rose, you see two little blue divots in the timeline that represent short video ads. [via]
Sure, I didn't get you a Christmas present, but I'm linking to this classic video of Vanilla Ice on SNL, so do you forgive me?
Stumble Video is an interesting little time-waster from Stumbled Upon.
I really don't know why I'm linking to a video of Michel Gondry solving a Rubiks Cube with his feet, but I certainly am.
Amanda's show has launched on ABCnews.com. Virginia has a positive NYT review. Update: Andrew's response.
I was just thinking that it's strange that no one is really using Flash's ability to capture webcam video to make a social video experience. Boom, then YouTube launches Quick Capture.
Some band named DEE has a music video for their song "lonelygirl15" set in an exact replica of Bree's bedroom. (Is anyone watching lg15 anymore? Anyone?)
A Nielsen study says that only 2.2% of content played on an iPod is video. And only 15.8% of all iPod users have ever played video.
Some people like this Exies cover of a classic Talking Heads song, but it sounds like Creed to me.
So you hire the dude who makes Radiohead videos to make an advert involving paint -- what do you get? Something much better than watching paint dry. [via]
If you ever had any doubt about the verisimilitude of The Office, then check out the Bank One banker singing U2's "One." It hurts.
Remember the "Little Superstar" clip on YouTube a while back? If you want to see the whole movie, Adhisaya Piravi, from which it came, someone has re-released the DVD.
The "editor of television and video" at the New York Times (which really means NYtimes.com) fields questions from users. Many of the questions are about ads, and I don't think she understood the question about YouTube.
I've never heard of Simian Mobile Disco, but their new video for "Hustler" wins my video of the year award.
This is the most fun you can possible have on a Friday afternoon: Let's Paint, Exercise, & Blend Drinks TV!. For more Friday fun, check out Will It Blend? [via]
Awesome. Someone laid Dark Side of the Moon over The Wizard of Oz and tossed it onto Google Video. (Hey, pass the bowl.)
The new vid from Gnarles Barkley is a Blacula take-off. See also: the new Streets video is anti-drugs, but it somehow makes me want to do meth.
New Killers video, directed by Tim Burton. The skeletons are a dead giveaway.
Gotta say I never would have guessed that Yahoo's weird entry in the videoblog category, The 9, was going to be a hit, but that's what the L.A. Times says.
New Yorker: Video of Malcolm Gladwell talking about how to engineer hits, which is pretty much the live version of the movie hit prediction story from this week's magazine.
Slate: A Video History of YouTube. Also in Slate: How To Watch Web Video, with lines like "every video is, first and last, an advertisement for itself" and "watching YouTube is far closer to consuming Internet pornography than staring at the television."
Spy's How to Be Famous videos. (See also: a brand new best-of book: Spy: The Funny Years. Kurt Anderson interviewed about it.) [via]
This might be my favorite Ze Frank ever -- maybe even better than the MySpace one.
Some totally good and totally new music videos: TV on the Radio, Gnarles Barkley, The Horrors, The Streets + Banksy, Emily Haines and.... Paris Hilton.
Yahoo and Current.TV have teamed up: Yahoo Current Network. Users upload into one of four verticals: autos, travel, action sports, and buzz (a catch-all, I think).
How to make the perfect sidecar. Watch carefully, becuz the sidecar is my drink right now.
Did you see Scarlett Johansson starring in the new Bob Dylan video? Shot in Super 8.
Don't feel bad for downloading those bittorents of Lost -- they're free on iTunes now anyway.
lonelygirl15 is really unlonelygirl19. She is Jessica Rose, 19, an actress from New Zealand. Pics and her MySpace profile via Google cache.
P. Diddy has his own channel on YouTube. I guess this is their business model.
lonelygirl15 creators out themselves (sorta). It's an art project by some filmmakers.
Banksy punks Paris Hilton. Photos. Sorta funny. Banksy also has a new book out.
Some Warhol clips: Promo for his show on MTV, Bob Dylan screen test, with Truman Capote, vs. Clement Greenberg.
New Tapes 'N Tapes video! New Tapes 'N Tapes video! New Tapes 'N Tapes video! "Cowbell." Corn fields, exploding cars, and a very angry Joshy.
I noticed this too -- it appears that The Colbert Report ripped off a Ze Frank joke.
I don't care what you say, I'm really into these lonelygirl15 vids, especially the parodies, thankyouverymuch.
Arctic Monkeys have a new single and video: "Leave Before The Lights Come On".
L.A. Times: Crazy profile of the Girls Gone Wild dude. Strangely harrowing.
Have you fallen for lonelygirl15 on YouTube yet? Check out her take on Jared Diamond's Tolstoy Principle.
Stylus counters Pitchfork with its own list of the 100 greatest music videos.
Yahoo launched a new video blog today, The 9, which is basically a cross between Google Current and Rocketboom.
Madonna's new video for "Get Together" is all '70s rotoscopey.
Just forget you had a day of work ahead of you: Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos, with YouTube vids included.
