Music related items.
Meet Paul Potts, from the show Britain’s Got Talent. The audience has little expectation for this cell phone salesman until he brings them to their feet with an incredible performance of an extremely difficult song called “Nessun Dorma”.
I don’t even like opera, but this guy is amazing. Apparently he is not just some amateur, he has been trained and has performed with the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and the Royal Philharmonic. Regardless, this guy is incredible.
This is pretty creative and very well done. Seems several bands now days are looking for user generated videos. The first I know of was the Yeah Yeah Yeahs video contest for their “Cheated Hearts” song. Just yesterday, a buddy of mine was talking about how he was going to try and do one that Ozzy Osbourne has running for his “I Don’t Wanna Stop” song. Then I ran across a Modest Mouse video done by a fan for their “Missed the Boat” video contest. Here is that video:
Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially. (all 4133 of them) We then nailed each “shot” of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and theres a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!
[Source: Wooster Collective]
The Muppets covering NWA’s “Fuck the Police”.
So here’s some dude dancing in a Best Buy store. What?