OMG she is annoying.

Oh Man Jay........ I deid a SLOW and Painfull death watching that :(

I need to go and watch the Eagles Farewell I Tour :')

Terry

Interesting in a Bjork sort of way. It has a certain "Twin Peaks" kind of zen thing going. Apparently she's Swedish popstress. Apparently she exhausted her English on this track.

Personally I would have preferred just a straight on face shot and stick with it. More stark and compelling. It's better if you turn down the audio. :-P

I'd take this over the Eagles any day ;-P

The dude HATES the Eagles.

kairosmatt

"docha lemmeego lemmeego do ight..."

I guess I bailed on this video too fast the first time. But after reading these comments I had to go back and watch some more. She sounds like she has no clue what she's saying.

"Interesting in a Bjork sort of way."

Except that Bjork is actually interesting, particularly the seven videos which were directed by Michel Gondry. (I will understand if there are very few people who will agree with me on this one. Bjork and Michel Gondry are both acquired tastes.)

Thanks for the Hookup... I like music like that.
The rest of the Vids/Music on her page are equally entertaining.
... but, then again; you will probably NEVER catch me listening to The Eagles.

It's funny to me that you guys are commenting on the Girl's singing & lyrics instead of the Video itself. I thought you guys were VIDEO Creatives but your not looking at the VIDEO.

SHE... simply represents a client that has come to me/us for my/our Visual Creativity to bring HER vision to life.

I dig the way there is NO Background yet an Eternity of... Something/Anything/Nothing?
Yet her face stays nicely lit with just the right amount of shadow bouncing around the curves of her face to dramatically change the mood of her look/emotions as she goes through the song.

Don't you let me go, let me go... Tonight
Sounds pretty Vulnerable & Emotional yet Promising for some reason that I'm waiting/watching/wanting to discover. It's sometimes hard to get the 'money' shots you'd like to get. I think they created the vibe they were looking for without overdoing it and I think it looks and sounds Professional. Appears to be a 1 Take Shot.
- I wonder how many times she sang/ they shot that D@mn thing?
- I wonder which take that was?

As far as the Video goes Monetarily... I can see turning a pretty good profit off a minimalistic video such as this.

I can see using this idea for some shots. I'd probably try to composite some Very Faint B/W images & video Ghosting in and out in the Back/Black.

I found the video interesting - and a refreshing change from the three shots per second syndrome.

(- but what do I know - this Sunday I'm going to an event in Perth called "Big Day Out", featuring about 40 acts, 39 of whom I've never heard of, but instead of being there all day, I'm going for the last 2 hours to see the top of the bill - an up and coming Canadian called Neil Young.)

I agree that the "cut every two seconds" clips are very annoying. But this is very annoying too. But not because of the clip. It's that grating voice. Forced listening at high volume could be used as a more severe alternative to imprisonment.

Where is the "ANTI" in it?
To state the bleeding obvious it is a MUSIC VIDEO, duh!

Bob.

Well.... maybe it's just me on the minority side.............again.

But I thought this was excellent. The cam operator wanted to capture the fear and sincerity of a woman being left all alone in the night, and in my eyes.... he did it. And right at the end when she walked away and faded into the black.... it kind of passed that feeling onto you of being left alone.

Great job.

I found the video interesting - and a refreshing change from the three shots per second syndrome.

Peter, Sync, and Blink win the cigar (you three will have to split it). As usual, Bob missed the point.

I thought it was good not because it was so great, but because it was SO different. It's simplicity actually causes it to stand out. The creator of this video was able to think outside the box.

P.S. My sincere apologies to those who suffered any kind of pain, real or imagined, as a result of watching this video. It was never my intention to inflict pain or discomfort upon anyone!

Thanks for the link Jay.

What I found: Reduce. Refrain. Contain. Simplify. Rediscover the necessary. Video in its minimalist form. Storytelling with maximum impact.

Mangled English never stopped Marlon Brando from being understood, and Lykke Li's imprecision is plump with poetic possibility.

Having an opinion is so easy: liking, disliking, not caring. How do we move past judgementalism to discernment? How do we redirect our own glibness from overwhelming our sensitivity? How do we affirm the life of a piece, suspend the limitations of our singular point-of-view, and leave room for the creatively transformative?

Her cry is a cry I can hear in my voice many nights.

Tim

Very well said, Tim.

Having an opinion is so easy: liking, disliking, not caring. How do we move past judgementalism to discernment?

My students and I had this discussion just this past Wednesday. I don't expect everyone to like everything. However, I do expect "intelligent" people to be able (willing?) to articulate why they do not like something.

Perhaps I could have you come visit my classes as a guest lecturer!

The Anti-Music-Video Music Video was brilliantly done by the Replacements in 1985.
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My favorite Michael Gondry video is the stop motion one he did for the White Stripes.


It has an extra kick for me, because that park they filmed it in is across street from my brother-in-law's.

Also speaking of The Dude, I was in a bookstore yesterday and saw this
I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski

I was caught by my wife in the bookstore reading that book-she said it wasn't my bday yet...but then surprise, surprise, I didn't get it when that day did roll around.

I don't think she quite gets Lebowski, especially since she's heard me and my friends work it into random conversations more times than she's seen it.

I just looked at the schedule for Big Day Out and Neil Young is probably 25 years older than anyone else on that bill. There's a lot of bands on that bill, I have heard of, but not their music including one band that used to work at my local coffee shop.

If Neil Young finishes early, you may want to wander over and check out the Dropkick Murphy's an Irish-punk band from Boston. Scorsese used their music in The Departed.

I like this song by them, which is a punked up of version of a ballad in the Traditional Irish style.

Buster-
Great song! This thread is all over the place, but Irish-punk/rock/fusion whatever is some of my favourite music.

Ever check out the Prodigals ? Great bank from NY, haven't seen them in a while and they've changed their line up a few times, but great energy, and awesome mix of traditional and modern.

This thread is all over the place...

That's what happens when folks don't pay attention.

"As usual, Bob missed the point"

No Jay, I got your point exactly. It's just that I knew immediately what your game was and chose not to play along. Sad that others who should have known better got sucked in.

No Jay, it's nothing new or original or outstanding. That you seem to think it is says a lot about your knowledge of this game. These techniques predate video and go back to the early days of cinema. In fact they were used even before cinema.

You might like to explain to your students that the technique is called Black Limbo. It can be helped along unless you've got a large studio by the use of lighting similar to that used in Black Light Theatre. Just so you don't get mixed up on that one Black Lighting has nothing to do with UV lights.

If that short music video got you interested I'd recommend watching . Youtube does not do it justice and you really should watch a 35mm print not some crappy DVD of the movie.

If you want to teach your students about lighting invest in a copy of Writing With Light by Vittorio Storaro.

Bob.

If you want to learn a bit more look at how she is framed, especially towards the end. Standard fare it to have the talent look into the frame, especially in 16:9. By beaking that rule the sense of isolation is increased. Once you learn rules the next step up is to learn when and why you break them.

Bob.

"No Jay, it's nothing new or original or outstanding. That you seem to think it is says a lot about your knowledge of this game. These techniques predate video and go back to the early days of cinema. In fact they were used even before cinema."

For me it's not the technique that's at issue here. What technique is there...a black background, a black top... It couldn't get much simpler. What it is, is that the technique matches the song and the situation. It all fits together... and comes together at the end

Sorry Bob... I don't feel sucked in at all.