very cool! I read something on mefi (i think) about a band that couldn’t afford to make a video so they played in front of CCTV’s in england and then requested to have the video sent to them and compiled it to make a music video, here it is
Trying to track down the origins… that YouTube user doesn’t have any other original videos (just copies of commericals), and the girl featured in the video isn’t the band’s front… so who made the video for real?
Tyson Tate
on 11 May 08
The music is kind of grating and annoying, even to my young whippersnapper ears, but the video is amazing. It reminds me of the Apple II video for Jed’s Other Poem (as performed by Grandaddy) by Stewdio:
http://www.stewdio.org/jed/
BookwormProductions
on 11 May 08
Again and again— I hear bad music. Music really gets annoying quickly video is very creative though
I saw this over on TUAW yesterday… it’s awesome! I wonder how each of the clips were captured. It must have been a chunk of work to script out, sync to the music, and splice it all together.
The official video is here, the girl in this video was lipsyncing (obviously). Not a bad use of Mac OS X to demonstrate the core technologies powering the world’s most advanced operating system, though.
Tim
on 11 May 08
Wow, that was very cool. I really like that kind of videos because they impress me greatly for all the work of scripting involved beforehand…
It reminds me a little bit of Animation vs. Animator for the immense work of preparation and the multi-dimension of the video. (video made with flash of flash itself)
Wow, so much distaste for the music I went to iTunes to buy the album based on the video. Turned out it wasn’t entirely up my street, but I bought the best few tracks. This is probably the best one though.
SH
on 11 May 08
If any of you sleuths can track down the origin of this video, I’d love to know who’s behind it.
Yeah, that’s stated in the video itself, right at the end. The band didn’t make this video, though. (The official video is in a comment above.)
GeeIWonder
on 11 May 08
It’s this guy: http://www.dennisaliu.com/ (who may or may not be a real guy)
So it’s a commercial. But is it a commercial for the band, Mac, iTunes, or dennis a liu, ‘aspiring director’?
J
on 11 May 08
Need to spend less time opening and closing windows and more time writing lyrics.
C
on 11 May 08
Yea, song was awful. Awesome production concept, though.
Nick
on 12 May 08
The best part is the cowbell. Blink and you’ll miss it.
The video is made by that YouTube user, Dennis Liu, by the way. You can tell in part by the fact that his name is in the video in places (e.g. “Dennis’s Desktop” folder), that there’s pictures of an asian guy in PhotoBooth, and that Dennis Liu is a real, actual, person that directs things including music videos. I’m not really sure why people here and elsewhere doubt it.
Also, I can’t believe people are wasting seconds of their life complaining about the song. How jaded can you get?
GeeIWonder
on 12 May 08
I’m not really sure why people here and elsewhere doubt it.
Long, hard, experience sir. [Apologies to Tom Clancy] Anyone even cursorily familiar with previous viral marketing, Alan Smithee or a wide variety of other instances of ‘real people’ should regard all this stuff with healthy skepticism.
But then again, if you take an icon on a Desktop and “pictures of an asian guy” as proof of provenance, I have some authentic Da Vinci prints I’d like to sell you.
Paul Nelligan
on 12 May 08
Very cool video, and that girl is totally hot…
technically, awesome….
Does anyone else feel slightly nauseous while watching it though???... like, sensory overload… I do!...
I found it very distracting in an unpleasant way. Saw it on TUAW Saturday and watched again on Sunday because the premise is pretty neat. Unfortunately it just feels so forced that the video distracts from the song. People are watching how the song will be executed on the desktop vs. the song being the hero of the video.
Music videos are promotional and I found this video to not be very promotional for the music, but rather for the creator of the video.
Friggin’ awesome. I’m a sucker for the many possible visual representations of song lyrics – especially one as repetitive (not intended to be negative) as this. Very creative, very clever – a graphic designer’s dream. Bonus points for busting out just about every common tool in the box (Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut, PhotoBooth, etc.)
Gary R Boodhoo
on 13 May 08
song sucks. video is OK. *nix version is of course superior
AutoCriticizer
on 13 May 08
Hi, I’m writing this comment because it’s imperative that my dislike for the creative effort discussed in this posting be registered. I have nothing constructive to add.
Chris Jones
on 11 May 08very cool! I read something on mefi (i think) about a band that couldn’t afford to make a video so they played in front of CCTV’s in england and then requested to have the video sent to them and compiled it to make a music video, here it is
Michael Neale
on 11 May 08Quite a cool song too – had to check them out and buy some, I liked it so much.
I guess that is the intended effect of it ;)
Travis Vocino
on 11 May 08Very cool, indeed. It really surprised me when it first started up and I realized what was actually going on.
Nathan Bowers
on 11 May 08Whoa! At the end there she threw YouTube into an infinite recursion loop and damn near crashed the internets.
Inara is so cute it hurts.
Phil Dokas
on 11 May 08The ending is absolutely superb.
Nathan
on 11 May 08Trying to track down the origins… that YouTube user doesn’t have any other original videos (just copies of commericals), and the girl featured in the video isn’t the band’s front… so who made the video for real?
Tyson Tate
on 11 May 08The music is kind of grating and annoying, even to my young whippersnapper ears, but the video is amazing. It reminds me of the Apple II video for Jed’s Other Poem (as performed by Grandaddy) by Stewdio:
http://www.stewdio.org/jed/
BookwormProductions
on 11 May 08Again and again— I hear bad music. Music really gets annoying quickly video is very creative though
DjD
on 11 May 08I saw this over on TUAW yesterday… it’s awesome! I wonder how each of the clips were captured. It must have been a chunk of work to script out, sync to the music, and splice it all together.
Tom
on 11 May 08The official video is here, the girl in this video was lipsyncing (obviously). Not a bad use of Mac OS X to demonstrate the core technologies powering the world’s most advanced operating system, though.
Tim
on 11 May 08Wow, that was very cool. I really like that kind of videos because they impress me greatly for all the work of scripting involved beforehand…
It reminds me a little bit of Animation vs. Animator for the immense work of preparation and the multi-dimension of the video. (video made with flash of flash itself)
lolwat
on 11 May 08The video is cool. I won’t comment on the music.
Peter Cooper
on 11 May 08Wow, so much distaste for the music I went to iTunes to buy the album based on the video. Turned out it wasn’t entirely up my street, but I bought the best few tracks. This is probably the best one though.
SH
on 11 May 08If any of you sleuths can track down the origin of this video, I’d love to know who’s behind it.
Chris
on 11 May 08The band is the Bird and the Bee.
http://www.thebirdandthebee.com/
SH
on 11 May 08Yeah, that’s stated in the video itself, right at the end. The band didn’t make this video, though. (The official video is in a comment above.)
GeeIWonder
on 11 May 08It’s this guy: http://www.dennisaliu.com/ (who may or may not be a real guy)
So it’s a commercial. But is it a commercial for the band, Mac, iTunes, or dennis a liu, ‘aspiring director’?
J
on 11 May 08Need to spend less time opening and closing windows and more time writing lyrics.
C
on 11 May 08Yea, song was awful. Awesome production concept, though.
Nick
on 12 May 08The best part is the cowbell. Blink and you’ll miss it.
The video is made by that YouTube user, Dennis Liu, by the way. You can tell in part by the fact that his name is in the video in places (e.g. “Dennis’s Desktop” folder), that there’s pictures of an asian guy in PhotoBooth, and that Dennis Liu is a real, actual, person that directs things including music videos. I’m not really sure why people here and elsewhere doubt it.
Also, I can’t believe people are wasting seconds of their life complaining about the song. How jaded can you get?
GeeIWonder
on 12 May 08I’m not really sure why people here and elsewhere doubt it.
Long, hard, experience sir. [Apologies to Tom Clancy] Anyone even cursorily familiar with previous viral marketing, Alan Smithee or a wide variety of other instances of ‘real people’ should regard all this stuff with healthy skepticism.
But then again, if you take an icon on a Desktop and “pictures of an asian guy” as proof of provenance, I have some authentic Da Vinci prints I’d like to sell you.
Paul Nelligan
on 12 May 08Very cool video, and that girl is totally hot…
technically, awesome….
Does anyone else feel slightly nauseous while watching it though???... like, sensory overload… I do!...
Tor Løvskogen
on 12 May 08Haha GeeIWonder – Da vinci prints, nice one!
Keith
on 12 May 08I found it very distracting in an unpleasant way. Saw it on TUAW Saturday and watched again on Sunday because the premise is pretty neat. Unfortunately it just feels so forced that the video distracts from the song. People are watching how the song will be executed on the desktop vs. the song being the hero of the video.
Music videos are promotional and I found this video to not be very promotional for the music, but rather for the creator of the video.
Don Schenck
on 12 May 08Oh dear God, not again.
Franchise Whale
on 12 May 08Great stuff! Thanks for sharing, one fresh idea and you can change the world, keep up the great work.
jamie
on 12 May 08Do it again! Do it again!
Matt Radel
on 12 May 08Friggin’ awesome. I’m a sucker for the many possible visual representations of song lyrics – especially one as repetitive (not intended to be negative) as this. Very creative, very clever – a graphic designer’s dream. Bonus points for busting out just about every common tool in the box (Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut, PhotoBooth, etc.)
Gary R Boodhoo
on 13 May 08song sucks. video is OK. *nix version is of course superior
AutoCriticizer
on 13 May 08Hi, I’m writing this comment because it’s imperative that my dislike for the creative effort discussed in this posting be registered. I have nothing constructive to add.
Vincent
on 14 May 08Well… I’m not gonna watch that one again :)
Foliovision
on 15 May 08Self-referential and meta-video. At this point, metafiction = last resort of those without ideas.
Do we really need to be reminded that music videos are just animated images pasted together?
Execution of tired concept relatively clean.
rachel
on 15 May 08I really enjoyed this… it was new for me. Awesome concept.
oscar
on 18 May 08more than finding out who produced the video i’d like to know who the girl is.
she is hot.
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