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| 09|07|2006 |
By Debra Kaufman
Jason Pires brought his background in graphic arts to bear on rapper Jae-P’s music video “Vecino” (“Neighbor” in Spanish). Even if you can’t understand the lyrics, the images make the message known — Pires' skill as a graphic artist creates a moving and powerful counterpoint to the words.... »
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| 05|09|2006 |
By Bryant Frazer
If you've watched music television at all in the last 18 months, you've almost certainly seen a video directed by Marc Webb. His work is unified by a propulsive sense of rhythm and a consistent engagement with his artists and their audience.... »
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| 02|01|2006 |
By Sharon Kennedy
New York visual effects house Spontaneous motion-captured Bono's face so he could sing to an animated woman in a 3D environment.... »
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| 01|01|2006 |
By Alison Johns
Apple has inspired a lot of people to do a lot of things, but recently it stoked a debate about how music video directors should participate in sales of clips on iTunes as well as downloads to cellular phones... »
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| 12|01|2005 |
By Sharon Kennedy
Garage-pop band The Greenhornes debuted their first music
video, "Pattern Skies," fresh from delivering the soundtrack to Jim
Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers. Given two-and-a-half
weeks to concept, shoot, edit and animate the video, Lightborne
(Cincinatti, OH) juggled production and post.... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
By Rebecca Merle
Beck’s video "Girl" is one of those puzzles that prompts a pro to ask "How did they do that, anyway?" The challenge was to illustrate the singer’s darkly inflected but light-sounding... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
Final post work for U2’s "City of Blinding Lights" (directed by Partizan’s Alex & Martin) was completed at Los Angeles -based KromA, whose main task was conforming a DigiBeta master using... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
Director David Fincher returns to music videos with a CGI promo for "Only" by Nine Inch Nails. Flexing his photoreal muscles, Digital Domain VFX supervisor Eric Barba turned an everyday workspace... »
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| 07|01|2005 |
By Alison Johns
An inventive stylist who rarely repeats himself, Mark Romanek has found ways to amplify pop music on film in quirky, personal ways. He’s done it for Beck, David Bowie, Jay-Z and Johnny Cash. Recently the... »
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| 05|01|2005 |
Interviewed by Sharon Kennedy and Iain Blair
"I wanted it to look completely different from all the other videos on the air and cut across the television screen like a knife," says director Sam Bayer. How?... »
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