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.
Another classic, this one from Spike Jonze. My favorite Björk song and one of my favorite Spike Jonze videos. I’ve never seen a song interpreted so perfectly.
The guy in the video is Bill Shannon, who was born with a degenerative hip condition that prevents him from being able to support his own weight. I’ll take any excuse I can to post an Rjd2 track. He’s one of the most amazing DJs around today.
I still can’t help being reminded of that Geico commercial everytime I hear this song, but the video is too cool to pass up. Airplane emergency guides are always good sources of entertainment.
This week I will be featuring the old school rockers, Foo Fighters. I have long held the theory that Dave Grohl was, is, and will be the savior of Rock music. From drumming Nirvana into the annals of history, to his Heavy Metal side project, Probot (warning, heavy metal video, not suitable for all viewers), to stepping in on drums for Queens of the Stone Age for one album, to his Hellish performance on drums for Tenacious D (yes, that is Grohl in the demon costume), Grohl is constantly promoting the good name of Rock, and in my opinion, almost singlehandedly keeping it alive.
I saw Foo Fighters honor Queen at VH1′s first Rock Honors, where they performed the greatest cover of “Tie Your Mother Down” I’ve ever heard, then went on to accompany the remaining members of Queen along with Paul Rodgers on “We Will Rock You” using 3 drum kits. Foo Fighters’ drummer on one, Dave Grohl on another, and Roger Taylor on the last. They were the highlight of the evening (Not the exact performance, but you get the idea).
It’s 2007 and they still rock as hard as they did over 10 years ago. And can Universal please take a hint from RCA and allow their Official YouTube videos to be embeddable. Ridiculous.
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