James Houston:
James is an artist and filmmaker that were born in Scotland. His main identification throughout his videos is his unique use of colourful retro aesthetics. I found this really awesome interview with James on this site http://inksie.com/journal/james-houston/ . It contains a lot of information about his processes of video making and particularly about his video ‘Big Ideas (don’t get any)’.
Official Secrets act – So Tomorrow:
James Houston quotes: “The most recent project I was involved in was to create a promo video for ‘So Tomorrow’ by Official Secrets Act. They knew my work from seeing my graduation video for Radiohead ‘Big Ideas (don’t get any)’ video online, and asked me to create something for them. This was my result”:
“I made this video with the shortest turnaround I’ve ever had on a project – DV footage was shot of the band performing in London and then transported to me in Glasgow for my magic to begin. The frames around the video are based on old arcade cabinet bezels, and were used to bump up the resolution”.
Grizzly Bear – Knife:
This video was directed by Ghost Robots Encyclopedia Pictura. “This music video is rich in colour, intriguing and the plainly bizarre.” Encyclopedia Pictura is a congealed version of Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch. Both of these people have been alive since 1983. Since then they have mostly been growing taller in the town of Santa Cruz and then working hard and tough in the town of San Francisco. They are interested in Virtual Reality, Psychokinetic Energy, Anarcho-Primitivism, Clowning, Cryptozoology, Natural Geometry, Psychedelic Shamanism, and Fruit Sandwiches. They also take part in the group Mangello Tipperary, along with artist Daren Rabinovitch. Their next project is a stereoscopic jungle musical for Devendra Banhart.”
“It doesn’t make sense; it doesn’t want to make sense.” Personally I didnt really like this video, I just found the song and the video difficult to connect with, I found that it didnt really draw the audiance in, even tho it was kinda an exciting video, I guess I can't really explain why.
Radiohead (Nude) cover – Big Ideas (don’t get any):
From an interview James quotes: “It was never intended to be a Radiohead project. Dr. Roland Shregle from Ganjatron.net wrote a tutorial back in the dark ages of the Internet on how to replace a default sound file that’s inside every HP scanner. The original file is Fur Elise and was intended as an Easter egg for early technology enthusiasts. I couldn’t help but notice the excellent bass sound and so the next logical step was to find other instruments that would accompany my bassist. Look Around You probably inspired the final treatment.”
He continues to explain: “I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.”
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