I’ve found that one really fun way to watch this video is watching through it (like you look at a “Magic Eye”) and pretending Andy Warhol shot it.
I’m sure these’ll all come down really soon (part 2), knowing Prince’s notorious rule over his virtual dominion–but I hope not (he is having a change of heart [...]

It’s a long clip (c. 16 minutes), but it’s a doozy. And it starts with a swell vertical tracking shot.
Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) is widely regarded as the first British talkie, and this clip testifies to his genius and self-promotional acumen. Right off the bat, as film was still struggling to develop its own [...]

Man, this clip of Dinosaur Jr.– in the studio recording their Jagjaguwar debut– crams a TON of stuff into a brief time. We learn that Lou regrets making a “hellish stink” about getting kicked out of the band forever ago (Lou, feeling guilt? NOOOO), we get to see a quick CU of three [...]

Until they release something new, or play live where I can see them, I’m going to keep posting videos like this of Women. This is a version of “Group Transport Hall” that slows the song down significantly from the recorded version–like playing a 45 at 33 speed–resulting in a nice quasi drone-metal buildup that [...]

No, not marathonpacks (again), but a house. Yes, an entire house. And an old one. And a big one. Over the summer, the university I work for decided that they wanted to renovate an existing building. Which meant moving a huge old Victorian-style house across town. Like any good bored video professional, I grabbed [...]

Yeah, the VMA’s were tired–even Stereogum got bored. But what can one do? Here’s a start–a collection of some of the most interesting videos from the past 2 years–most animated, all downloadable:
Quasimoto-Bullyshit (James Reitano, dir.)
Marbles-Magic (Greg Gilpatrick, dir.)
Chemical Brothers-Galvanize (Adam Smith, dir.)
Guided by Voices-Back to the Lake (MK12, dir.)
The Shins-Pink Bullets (Adam Bizanski, dir.)
Interpol-Evil (Charlie [...]

I was on the fence about Clor for a while–having nothing to do with their music, but the overabundance of hype heaped upon them by NME and, okay, Pitchfork. The single “Good Stuff,” though, is catchy as hell, and the video is, well, a midnight “You Got Served”-style dance-off between a naked man [...]