Music Video of the Day: Ever wished there were two more shots of Tim Burton in your Shins cocktail? Well, the video for “The Rifle’s Spiral” is your wish come true.
“It’s now more like the years before MTV, when music videos did not have a formula,” said Emmy-winning director Jamie Caliri, who made a 3D version exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS. “You can be expressive and idiosyncratic.”
[nowness]
This is absolutely fantastic! The music ain’t bad either.
Time-Lapse Thing of the Day: 4,000 tilt-shifted images of Los Angeles during the holiday season snapped through a “snow globe” — actually, a water-filled light bulb — make up this stunning time-lapse short from Colin Mika and Brandon Vedder of All Cut Up Films.
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The Malibu Dream
Tucked away in Kelly Wearstler’s Malibu mansion three artists talked about what it meant to create, how we dreamed we could and what we’ll do next. We drank champagne and talked all night, we played in the light, we queued the wind, and she danced to the music while the cameras were rolling…
Musical By Nature of the Day: Speaking of which, here’s a record player modified by Bartholomäus Traubeck to play slices of wood by translating the year ring data into music.
[nerdcore.]
This cover. ;____;
It’s hard to believe that these are all birds. I am speechless. So beautiful.
wow, nature is so fascinating and elegant
watch this real quick
Wow. Spectacular.
(via decemburrsuns)
A Bite Of The Big Apple of the Day: Andrew Clancy spent a year shooting random scenes around New York, the end result of which is this lovely five-minute compilation aptly entitled “A Year in New York.”
Music: “We Don’t Eat” by James Vincent McMorrow.
[uproxx.]
So simple, yet so beautiful. It made me smile.
The music is great too.
Music Medley of the Day: Summing up Summer 2011 in the world of pop music with a medley of some of the summer’s biggest hits (mp3), Sam Tsui and Kurt Schneider actually manage to make many of the songs sound like actual music.
[khs.]
They are my faves.
Stop-Motion Thing of the Day: The music video for “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis, which utilizes over 288,000 jelly beans for its background, took 30 people only 1,357 hours across 22 months to complete.
I say “only” because I’m being sarcastic.
[kinagrannis.]
See Also: Behind the scenes.
