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Australian creative house Betty Wants In blew our minds a while back with Experience Zero Gravity, a super slow-mo, adrenalin-fueled look at crazy fools basejumping off of cliffs. Now the team has blessed us with a new clip, this time from the opposite end of the vibe spectrum. By the Lake, Tasmania is a lovely portrait of a man named Phipps, who lives the simple life on a lake in central......read more
As fall fades into winter, people in northern climates are hunkering down for the cold, silent season ahead. But there's a happy trade-off for high latitude folks; the transition between seasons delivers times of unparalleled natural beauty, with dazzling shifts in color and light. Swedish cinematographer Bart van der Gaag knows all about it. In "Changes," he deftly captures the passing of the......read more
Taken By Trees, the solo bliss-pop project from ex-Concretes lead singer Victoria Bergsman, just released this video for "Dreams", which matches the song's dreamy, ethereal vibe with gauzy visuals shot on the North Shore of Oahu. As the soundtrack delivers a mix of clam-shell clap beats, hushed vocals and nimble guitar plucks, director Amanda Marsalis follows Bergsman as she cruises around......read more
The wait is almost over for the release of Purity Ring's debut LP, Shrines, due out July 24th on legendary avant-pop label 4AD. In advance of the release, the Canadian duo just dropped this video for "Fineshrine," the best song we've heard off the album. Directed by Young Replicant, the video presents a scene involving an injured patient, a gorgeous girl, and some scissors, before descending into......read more
Based in Valencia, Spain, Juan Rayos is an accomplished filmmaker/photographer/artist who has created work for an impressive list of clients that includes Moleskine and Abengoa. But Juan's "Walking" film is of a more personal nature. Shot during a four-day hike through the forests of Navarre in Spanish Basque country, the clip has all the serene beauty you need for inspiration to head out for a......read more
In "America's Dead Sea," award-winning photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo serves up a beautiful but disturbing document of the Salton Sea, the heavily polluted saline lake southeast of Los Angeles. Lo Scalzo manages to find a fresh perspective on the notorious, much photographed sea, which was formed in a desert basin when the Colorado River flooded just over 100 years ago. With no outflow, and......read more
Harkening the Richard Linklater film Waking Life, this new(ish) rotoscoping video for "New Sum (Nous Sommes)" by Hey Rosetta! is a nice little bit of live action animation. Directed by Jesse Davidge and produced at Blatant Studios in Vancouver, the clip features performance footage mainly filmed at the band's sold out show at the Commodore Ballroom late last year. Interwoven in the narrative is a......read more
Bowerbirds' uniquely pastoral folk sound gets an appropriately-themed video in this clip for new single "Tuck the Darkness In." Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, the video finds a doe-eyed boy considering the lives of fish after he catches a couple and feels terrible about it. He goes on to observe the sea creatures in a variety of habitats, mournfully coming to terms with what he did. It's......read more
Derek Vincent Smith, aka Colorado-based electronic musician Pretty Lights, recently dropped this rolling, uplifting new track, "We Must Go On." To mark the release, Smith and his girlfriend, visual artist Krystle Blackburn, put out this video chronicling their travels through 2011. Shot on a pair of Canon 7Ds with about six lenses, the clip documents their ramblings through London,......read more
Oslo-based director Kristoffer Borgli takes us on an oddball journey in the video for "Det Haster!" ("It's Urgent!"), the latest single from fellow Norwegians Casiokids. The bizarre clip follows members of a mysterious youth cult as they engage intimate moments with toy animals (including Alf), fire raising and self-mutilation. It's decidedly weird and dark, but coupled with the......read more
