Thursday, July 2, 2009

FRESH Filmography

Firstly, this music video is pretty damn fresh if I do say so myself, it's packed with some super stylish fashion, I wish everyone in the real world dressed this nice, we'd all look so much more sophisticated. Also the choreography here is pretty fun and interesting. The song itself may not seem to be so impressive at first but towards the end of one listen it should already have grown on you, and for me after just a couple listens I'm completely hooked. It reminds me of an electronic version of Chester French (sounds a lot like if YACHT remixed one of their songs).



This next video is a short film with crazy directing skills (click this it's different than the youtube music video below) that won a contest held by Philips Electronics to show off their new 21:9 "cinema" display ratio TVs (which I'm all for by the way, anything closer to the standard hollywood movie aspect ratio (2.39:1) is a step in the right direction to me).

I found out about this little short by seeing the new 50 Cent music video that released today and features parts of the original short film. Before you dismiss this video simply for being a product of the "long past his prime" 50 Cent, give it a watch along with his "Get Up" song from last fall if you haven't heard that yet... I think he just may come with some fire on "Before I Self Destruct". He definitely flopped hard on his last two LPs but Get Rich Or Die Tryin' was simply a classic rap album no matter how much of a commercial joke he has become since then.



Also if you like this song, it's featured on 50's latest mixtape "War Angel LP" that he released last week. The mixtape is far from flawless but it's definitely a step in the right direction and about half the songs are good.

ALSO, since I've only just started this blog. Here's some of what I can remember as some of the best indie music videos I've previously found:

Animal Collective- "My Girls" (AMAZING computer effects)

Nyle- "Let The Beat Build" (Best music video directing feat I can think of)

Hey Champ- "Cold Dust Girl"
(Super hi-def slow-mo masterpiece)

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head- "Sophisticated Sideways Ponytail"
(Tons of crazy energy and fun in this one)

Thunderheist- "Jerk It" (Definitely a very unique idea)

Birdy Nam Nam- "The Parachute Ending"
(This is just super trip-out awesome)

Zion I- "Geek to the Beat" (Really great start but kind of standard in the second half)