This video premiered at Sundance last January, and is Time Magazine’s No. 2 viral video of the year, yet somehow I haven’t had a chance to check it out until now. Nice and imaginative stop motion work and an interesting premise. Check it out.
Western Spaghetti directed by PES. [Via It's Nice That]
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Bob Dylan’s animated video for, “The Little Drummer Boy,” from his new Christmas album. Directed by Jeff Scher (who also drew all the watercolors).
[Flavorwire via Twenty Four Bit]
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Artist Jean Jullien (covered previously) lent his unmistakable characters to this animated video for the song, Catastrophe, the latest 7inch release from his brother’s band–French-born, London-based electronic act–Niwouinwouin. Jullien also directed the clip, which follows around his version of Godzilla while it wrecks havoc on anyone in its path. Damn sweet video!
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This video, titled “Lego Matrix Trinity Help,” was conceived and created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Matrix. Using legos to re-create what is perhaps the most famous sequence from the film–the bullet-time-dodge scene–the two directors spent an estimated 400 hours completing the 44 second clip. What’s even more impressive is that it’s “frame [...]

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Boing Boing Video is vaguely involved with this new video for, “Spacious Thoughts” from the band N.A.S.A (North America South America), featuring Tom Waits and Kool Keith. Boing Boing also has an interview with the directors, Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie, who are better known as Montreal-based duo, Flourescent Hill.
Enjoy the video. It’s a trip.
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It took an artist named Jamin 11 hours to draw two pages from the book Where The Wild Things Are in life-size and full color on a chalkboard at the D.C. offices of ad agency, Arnold Worldwide. The 1:50 video includes 1,500 still photographs time-lapsed into a nice montage. [Via Notcot #26328]
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When you hear about major league baseball players and drugs, LSD is not the first thing that leaps to mind.  But way back when we still had true heroes, we had Dock Ellis – the man who pitched a no-hitter while tripping on acid.  And here is the story of that fateful day, in his [...]

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The ubiquitous use of animation and stop motion in indie music videos these days has thrust the genre into an experimental age that is quickly turning into a renaissance. We’ve spent quite a bit of time covering this trend during the past year, and it’s safe to say that this video (above) for, “I Say [...]

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“Natural Wonders” by Paul Conrad.
A bunch of retro posters were just released by Disney in promotion of the November 10th release of Pixar’s ‘Up‘ on DVD and Blu-Ray. Designed by an array of artists, the prints were created for inspiration during production of the film.
See the rest on page two. [/Film]
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NYC-brand No Mas and Muhammad Ali Enterprises have come together to release Rumblevision, a series of three short animated videos that celebrate the 35th anniversary of Ali’s infamous Rumble in the Jungle boxing match with George Foreman.
The videos, hand-drawn and directed by David Rathman (”Zaire”), Jerome Lagarrigue (”Round Zero”) and James Blagden (”GFOS VS. GOAT), [...]

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