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This week, I decided to tribute the great Michael Jackson in a way that only YouTube can. Oh, the things grown men will do when left alone in their mother’s basement…
This Week: A Tribute to a Legend
Try to ignore the pop-ups, they aren’t mine and I couldn’t find the original.
I don’t know what’s sadder, the fact that he chose “Man in the Mirror,” or the fact that he took the time to make props.
No tribute would be complete without the great Baby James!
Flight of the Conchords – Carol Brown (Choir of Ex-Girlfriends)
No installment of Crazy-Cool Camera Tricks would be complete without the king of cool camera tricks, Michel Gondry. I gotta get me one of them video switcher guitars.
This video was featured in the March issue of Amercan Cinematographer and for good reason. Director Frank Beltran shot the entire video on a Canon D1-EOS Mark III with a EF 16-35mm lens at 10 fps in JPEG format. He then used some fancy plugins to recreate M.C. Escher’s famous “Droste Effect.” When I grow up, I want to be as creative as this guy.
I’ve been meaning to post this one for a long time, but I was waiting for the third video to come out. These videos always come in threes. I don’t know why, but without fail, whenever I find 2 videos with similar styles, a third one will always follow. It took a month or so for this one to show itself.
This Week: The Moving Tableaux
Adele – Chasing Pavements
I love Adele and the morbid beauty of this video. A perfect match.
I come from the school of thought that for any given moment of time, there is one piece of art that will fit that moment more perfectly than any emotion or thought we possess ever could. Whether it be music, literature, film, photography, or fine art, my life is nothing but a quest to find those perfect pieces to fill the tiny moments of my existence.
Today, when I set out to do this post, I had completely different intentions. I knew which videos I wanted to feature and decided to just check in on a few of the music video sites I frequent. I was just about to quit and go on to write this post, when I came across the video below. No other music video has ever fit a moment of an existence as perfectly as this video fit mine today.
So without further ado, I give you The Perfect Video:
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