T brought home a Christmas tree.
Play by Goapele
So glad I didn’t set my 2k11 lists in stone yet.
Taran Killam recreates Robyn’s Call Your Girlfriend video at 4:30AM on writing night. (x)
Blessings.
New Coco Solid with Tim Checkley is hot. It was my favourite bit of the Pacific Rims mix tape.
This is exactly the kind of dance I do with exactly the kind of lyrics about exactly the kind of topic - putting things in my stomach. <3 Britta.
“We look for the edges of the maps, the places where obstacles and “masking systems” (industry term) politely turn you away from a real glimpse at the yawning digital void beyond the grid of the game’s world. Once, while playing Grand Theft Auto, we managed to make our character swim in the ocean, away from the game, for half an hour of repetitive grey water before he died. I like calmly driving through the cityscapes of racing games, adhering to traffic laws.”
I love this video! It really captures what it feels like see YACHT live, I think.
The symbiotic relationship between idol and fan is one of the more fascinating aspects of pop culture. The celebrity cannot exist without the fan, and the fan cannot consume without the celebrity. But rarely do the two meet and collaborate in a creative environment, the way YACHT and YouTube star/YACHT superfan Mitchell Davis did to make the music video for the band’s “I Walked Alone,” which we’re thrilled to premiere.
It’s a fitting partnership, as Davis—who was asked by YACHT to work on this, his first directorial role—seems to innately understand how to display YACHT’s layered meanings. The lyrics of “I Walked Alone” explore the connections between various elements, eventually grounding itself in the idea of individuals banding together against a larger entity. Davis cleverly displays this by employing a constantly revolving camera to capture Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans in separate roles that are somehow are cohesive, showing two individuals that relate to each other in a vast and an empty landscape. This becomes even more powerful in the latter half of the video, when Bechtolt and Evans go through a small group of people in a room and physically bring them to one another, with everyone singing by the end, as opposed to the lone Bechtolt at the beginning.
This may be a start of a trend: “Our hope is that fans will watch this video and understand that YACHT is a community which reaches out to its most active members and engages them to actively participate,” said Evans.
(Source: youtube.com)
GENEVA JACUZZI “DO I SAD”
DIRECTED BY JENNIFER JUNIPER STRATFORD
This is great… Not quite as good as ‘Stay Away’, which is definitely in my top songs list for the year.
Official video from Charli XCX for ‘Nuclear Seasons’ released through This Is Music.
Available for free download now at http://charlixcxmusic.com
Directed by Ryan Andrews
Video effects by Crim3s
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