.Supertime.

It's been awhile since I see a story in a music video that is truly brilliant.

An Icelandic music producer who later joins Hyper Island had came up a paradoxical script on how one can turn horrorful events into something fun.

[ Interactive Art Director Student Atli Vidar Thorsteinsson has produced the music video Supertime for the group Berndsen (directed by Helgi Johannsson) which has been invited to the LA Film Festival in June 2010.]

Berndsen - Supertime from Helgi Jóhannsson on Vimeo.

.Hippie from the future - Yeasayer / O.N.E

Super retro-futuristic hipster-matic color-dashy hippie-ish new track by Yeasayer - Brooklyn, New York.

Yeasayer O.N.E. from Paranoid US on Vimeo.

.Ceo / Prologue.

Visually arresting.

ceo - prologue from Modular People on Vimeo.

(Via Jon Loe)

.Midnight Juggernauts - warped.

You gotta open your mind for this warped video. No, literally.

.It's divinely okay.

Beautifully art directed, it's somewhat setting between Avatar and Sweeney Todd in black and white.

*Courtesy of Vinny

WeWereMonkeys: Land of Talk - It's Okay on Vimeo.

.jed's other poem.

I've stumbled upon yet another music video that caught my eye.

I just adore how people weave simplicity into something understatedly handsome. Watching the cursor dancing around in synergy with the song makes me smile, a little.

Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) from Stewdio on Vimeo. An unsolicited, then approved, music video for the band Grandaddy and their song of the same name off of the album The Sophtware Slump.

Directed by Stewart Smith - An artist-programmer from New York City, currently operating in London. He operates Stewdio, a consultancy that approaches art and software through the lens of graphic design. Stewart has taught introductory Web design at Yale, Data Visualization (using Processing) at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and advises organizations exploring new interactive technologies and techniques.

(I just copied his biography. It's easier.)

.show me the colors.

This week. My top 3 bedazzling videos with colors so hard to resist.

Y∆CHT & The Straight Gaze, announced their spring “New Mystery Moods” tour, with this quirky promo video.

YACHT & The Straight Gaze (PT. 1) from Jona Bechtolt on Vimeo.

Jump jump dance dance + Claire Carré: show me the night.

Jump Jump Dance Dance - Show Me The Night from etcetc on Vimeo.

Pick A Piper is a collective from Weber along with Angus Fraser, Dan Roberts, and Clint Scrivener. Directed by Weber himself, here's a candy-speckled video directed by Weber himself - which was partially shot in magical Iceland, just the way I remember that subdued utopia - for their single “Rooms.”

PICK A PIPER - Rooms (filmed in Iceland and Canada) from Brad Weber on Vimeo.

.cymatics.

We all know that sound is traveling wave, which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid or gas, composed of frequencies which are audible. We don't speak of them like we see of them. Coz we don't, right? Apparently not.

Cymatics is a study of visible sound through vibration, typically on a surface on water, plate or a membrane. One of the earliest to notice that an oscillating body displayed regular patterns was Galileo Galilei, whom discovered visible sounds when he was scraping a brass plate with a sharp iron chisel in order to remove some spots from it. Not going too far into the history of cymatics, our urbanite Evan Grant has managed to introduced the idea, more of the existence of visualizing sound in this 5 mins TED presentation.

From snowflakes to amoeba, everything takes a form, shape, or even as data. These aren't new discoveries, just that we spend less time being aware of minute little things that could be discreetly important. Visualizing sound with cymatics, is a primitive art form, yet a beautiful fundamental. You can even DIY cymatics if you are keen to see how Daft Punk's Aerodynamics soundwave would look as opposed to Massive Attack's Teardrop.

Maybe sometimes, we ought to spend some time putting a microscopic mind to the things we often not think much about. Imagine working with them now knowing that you can see them.

.neurosonics audiomedical + beardy man.

Remember UK's beardyman guy who does incredible beatboxing to drum 'n' bass at Google's office 2 years back? Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs fellas has just given him and their techni-gear a face/lift. Holographic one too btw.

Playing live WYSWYG - no post video production.

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

*Courtesy of Xavier T.

Beardyman himself and Nathan Flutebox Lee:

.Duck Sauce X Surface2Air.

First you think it's the pottery part. Like they were about to erupt into a massive orgasm of splattered clay. But no. More psychedelic.

Watch.

.Survivor // Fare Soldi.

Italian disco-house.

Retrospective journey into your childhood's plastic lunchbox.

Fare Soldi - Survivor from riotmaker on Vimeo.

.Riverside Muthafucka!.

Its funny how i bump into the 2nd vid that tells the tale of the hood. Younger, cuter, and way too pinch-able for this one.

Not too mention, i adore this track. Kicked my fuckin' ass.

Courtesy of Warren T.

N.A.S.A + Alexi Tylevich - A Volta.

It's sin city in sim city. This electro-toy film noir gangster-esque/ coke-fueled space video will mess you up. It's a godamn killer.

“A Volta”, is directed by Logan’s Alexei Tylevich and inspired by the work of Mexican-American artists The Date Farmers. Sit up, and get shot down.

.Vulture Realty + Steamclam 2011.

Trippy, grimy, technicolored electro vid.

It may go well with Thieves like Us' "Drugs in my body."

Vulture Realty: "2011" from steamclam on Vimeo.

.when i grow up, i want to be a VJ.

A starter kit for amateurs n wannabes like me.

.AntiVJ in Breda.

A short TV report for the whiz kids on Netherlands National TV. On their recent projection mapping project in a Cathedral church in Breda. Imagine how grandeau that could be, having the sounds of echoing organ tingling down your spine.

.Heaven/UNKLE - Spike Jonze.

Heaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix)
Uploaded by UNKLE_UK

.More 8-bit mania - Dawn Metropolis / SEXY SYNTHESIZER

*Courtesy of ZL.

Of which, reminds me of the CD i bought when I was in Tokyo last October. From some random toy/stationery shop. Sexy Synthesizer produces music from 8-bit sounds from old skool games like Mario Bros. etc, and did several covers which was pretty refreshing to the ears. 

Here's one. You just gotta love the eccentricity of the Japanese.

The vid is a lil' raw and low-d but well, you get the idea.

.Motion Type - Dafty.

Love the neo-colors of this one. And the absolute simplicity of the other.

.Concert eye candies.

Top 10 most awesome visual concerts. 

And then you think - what ever happened to the scene where I'm at. Godamnit.

Here's the top of the dogs. Daft fuckin ace Punk.

Daft Punk in Australia from Deepfresh on Vimeo.

*Courtesy of Tomas L.