Ünnecessary Ümlaut

Not the freshest of approaches, but still just as weirdly unsettling as any of the 7,520 chin face vids on YouTube. Check out Brookyln’s Obits on MySpace and at Sub Pop. (via Pitchfork.tv)

One part: Oren Lavie “Her Morning Elegance”

Two parts: Tornas Mankovsky “Sorry I’m Late”

Add a whiff of Trevor Van Meter “Fly Guy”

Put ’em all together and you’ve got Coldplay “Strawberry Swing”. Maybe I’m stop-motion jaded. Or maybe I’m Coldplay-jaded. 

Meh.

RELATED:
Stop Motion: “Sorry I’m Late” and “Chalk Pipe”

So many things wrong with this. But I’ll give ’em props for two things: Putting their own spin on the tune and having a beast behind the double-bass kit. Too bad said beast turns bitch when he gets behind the mic. (Thanks, Davon)

Clever and well-thought out music video for SOUR involving many of the band’s actual fans. All filmed via their own webcams. (Thanks, Davon)

Awfully gorgeous. Jeff Desom created this film for experimental piano musician, Hauschka. (via FecalFace)

UPDATE: Read how it was created (Thanks, Jack Haye!)

“The finished animation is mostly made from early twentieth century photographs that I found while browsing through the vast collection of the U.S. Library of Congress. I also used old postcards from New York that I purchased at a flea market in Paris. Most of the time I would only zoom into a tiny portion of the picture and utilise that as my frame.

“The hardest part was to make it look as if it had been pasted together from a lost reel depicting this curious experiment where they’d lightened up a piano and thrown it off a building only to see what would happen. The kind of unnecessary crash test executed under the sole purpose of drooling over the beauty of slow motion.”

More »

RELATED:
Epic: What It’s Really Like To Work In A Music Store
Video: Petaluma Pete Does Whiskerino 2009

Krystalline Armanderiz aniamted this music video made up of zillions (or so) of YouTube vids. Clicking on each one takes you to that vid. You gotta be fast. The RickRoll’s only up for a flash. Watch and click here.

Related: Kutiman Remixes YouTube Into “ThruYou”

I love Jizzed In My Pants and even Dick In A Box, but this shows they can bring the funny with other subject matter. Like a “nautical-theme pashmina afghan”.

“Poseidon, look at meee!”  Watch I’m On A Boat now. (Thanks, Mike)

• •    • •

RELATED:
Rökk: Lonely Island now Creative Directors for Unnecessarily Umlauted Vodka
Gallery: Petaluma Rivertown Revival?
Old Spice: Monocle Smile is the New Horse
Moustache: Old Spice On A Boat