By E.J. Judge
When George Harrison released “What Is Life” from his first solo album post-Beatles — All Things Must Pass — in 1971, it went without an accompanying music video because they still weren’t a thing musicians normally did at the time. It’s now 46 years later and the song finally…
Mike Tyson has a brand new music video to match his anti-Soulja Boy diss track … complete with hot bikini chicks in weird poses … and even a shot at Floyd Mayweather.
Tyson’s barely in the video for “If You…
Most often fueled by passion rather than proper budgets, music videos are the wild west of media genres – a place where passion and promise more than compensate for a director’s lack of experience or connections, or both. Have a look at the nine most intriguing examples Stash published this year. More
Elton John has teamed with YouTube to give creative talent from around the world the opportunity to craft official videos for three of his most iconic songs: “Bennie and the Jets,” “Rocket Man” and “Tiny Dancer.”
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of John and Bernie Taupin’s partnership, the singer launched “Elton John: The Cut” to give a visual accompaniment to those three classic singles released before the music video era.
Each song seeks submissions for a specific genre of filmmaking: “Rocket Man”…
Taylor Swift will soon be the recipient of her own channel as part of a deal the 1989 singer struck with AT&T and DirecTV.
Taylor Swift Now will serve as “a new destination for unique and never seen videos” when it launches as part of AT&T’s DirecTV Now, the telecommunications giant announced Monday.
According to Variety, the channel will feature music videos, concert performances, behind-the-scenes footage and more from the Swift archives. The exclusive content will be presented over the…
With an ever-growing and increasingly impressive cannon of shorts to their name, we find ourselves wondering if it’s high time for the members of OK GO to drop the mics and focus their efforts exclusively on cameras. In their last video, they took to parabolic flight on Russian airliner S7 Airlines, which we’re pretty sure will be the only music video to be ever shot entirely in zero-gravity.
Their latest short for the song ‘The One Moment’ takes a pretty simple premise we’ve seen before in music videos and literally blows it up to the nth degree. In past efforts, Spike Jonze and Matt Yoka have both used slow-motion to create an illusion where people around the bound move slowly while the artist moves in real time.
With this technique, you shoot things four times faster, so when you play it back in twenty-four frames, it displays in slow motion. You then multiply the speed of the film by four and multiply the speed of the song by four, so when you play it back, you return it to the actual speed at which the song plays out.
‘The One Moment’ is a different beast entirely:
At the beginning of the video, we get a glimpse of the shot in realtime, which—from the…