Tag: MUSICVIDEO

The landscapes of Google Earth have never looked quite as hypnotic (or ominous) as they do in this music video from the band Lux Repeat. Created by designer Bartholomäus Traubeck, the clip takes viewers on an aerial voyage across Google Earth's pixelated landscape, in all its geographic desolation and graphic vibrance. Equal parts nature documentary and flight-simulator video game, it's ...

Kanye West's new video for 'All of the Lights' features, well, a lot of lights -- so many, in fact, that it could cause some people to have seizures. Epilepsy Action, a U.K.-based awareness organization, has reportedly urged YouTube to pull the video, claiming that the strobe light-intensive clip had already elicited seizures in viewers with certain epileptic conditions. YouTube duly removed ...

We've seen the Kinect do some pretty amazing tricks. It's easy to forget, though, that, despite all the hacking and bolting the gaming peripheral to robots, the Kinect is a video camera at heart. Artists Dom Jones and Dan Nixon recorded and processed the footage for a video from a band called Echo Lake using the Kinect. The results are a sublime blend of musical specters performing the song, ...

Are you dreaming about how an obsessive knowledge of CS5 CS4 and iPhoto can turn you into a leather-jacket-and-hoodie-wearing rockstar? (Or is that just our fantasy?) The Limousines' music video for 'Very Busy People' (kinda NSFW) comes straight from the computer of director Mathieu Wothke, who painstakingly edits, 'shops and pieces together the jam before your eyes. Our favorite part: ...

Share Lady Gaga is popular. She officially laid claim to the Twitter throne, she smashed Obama for Facebook fans, and now she's conquered YouTube (again). In a tweet posted yesterday morning, Gaga proudly announced that her collection of YouTube videos had crossed the one billion view threshold, making her the first artist to hit decuple digits on the video sharing site. "We reached 1 Billion ...

For a band whose lyrics pine so heavily for a technologically simple past, Arcade Fire has really pushed themselves into the forefront of Internet marketing with the announcement of their third feature length album, 'The Suburbs.' First, the Canadian septet drafted a handwritten postcard to their fans announcing their upcoming single, scanned it and uploaded the missive for the blogosphere to ...

We're aware that the music video for smoldering Turkish singer (and apparent Tweetyphile) Ismail YK's tune 'Facebook' is at least seven months old, but we don't care. (Is it too late to include this on 'The Social Network' soundtrack?) Awkward Google lyrics translation: "[Something] Justin Timberlake [something]. I think I fell in love with Facebook, Facebook." Enjoy this over-produced, glossy ...

Musician Arman Bohn has created his newest music video with a decidedly fun piece of technology: the Nintendo DSi. To create the video for his song "Brain Games," Bohn drew images in the DSi's 'Flipnote Studio' program, and then exported them to 'After Effects' for editing and animation. In the video, anthropomorphic letters and numbers cavort as they watch Bohn perform on a TV monitor, ...

To most of us, the notion of "paying for music" sounds a lot like the notion of "bipartisan agreement"; it's a quaint idea, but it's also kind of a pipe dream. Yet one company, apparently unconvinced that people like getting things for free, is launching a new music service, specifically designed for those YouTubers looking for legal thrills. Rumblefish's Friendly Music allows users to select ...

The song is a little 1999 (the guys having missed the Nu-Metal train by about ten years), but the video for The Anix's 'Enemy Eyes' is all 2010. Just a few minutes after one of the band's members got home with his iPhone 4, the group decided to see just what the built-in 720p camcorder could do. The results are quite impressive. Sure, a MacBook Pro was needed to add some effects and color ...

Crowd-sourced material is really hot right now, from choral productions to YouTube spots for the Grammys, and we have to admit that we're not sure whether we like it or not. Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin and @radical.media have recently launched The Johnny Cash Project, in belated memory of the The Man in Black, who died nearly seven years ago. The lateness of this endeavor notwithstanding, ...

We don't want to give Lady Gaga any more hype than what she already amasses on a daily basis, but her new commercial video for "Bad Romance" positively deserves comment. Besides googly anime eyes, white vinyl body suits, razor blade sunglasses, 'True Blood'-inspired travel coffins, and a whole lot of fire, "Bad Romance" features a staggering number of gadget product placements, including the ...

In between his hectic schedule of making beautiful women swoon with his trademark dulcet tones, and making sure that his eyes are never more than 50-percent open, John Mayer, amazingly, has found time to revolutionize online music videos. His latest single, "Heartbreak Warfare," from the album 'Battle Studies,' introduces what's being called the world's first "augmented reality music video," ...

Without question, the above is one of the most captivating viral videos to have crossed our monitors here at Switched in ages. Not to mention one of the most mysterious Of Japanese origin (where else?), this piece of cyber-surrealism was directed by Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura, and Masayoshi Nakamura as a music video for SOUR, a quirky, three-piece band. 'Hibi no neiro' ...

Apple's iPhone, with its seemingly infinite apps and functions, has inspired a multitude of innovative ideas and uses. Pre-teen iPhone wunderkinds in Singapore (Doodle Kids) and the United States (Math Time) have developed impressive and popular apps. Now that the iPhone 3GS possesses video capabilities, it shouldn't be a surprise that an enterprising company recently decided to film a music ...