Adam Buxton's new show Bug

Directed by Dougal Wilson. Very very funny.

Cool music vid featuring Jake Gyllenhaal

Latest viral hit

It's a lo-fi music video that has racked up over 71 million views. 

The single 'Somebody That I Used To Know' by Gotye (Go-tea-Yay) has gone from strength to strength. 

The video is good but the popularity of the track seems to be what is making this one of the fastest viewed videos this year.

Alternative Christmas Music

Saint Savior. Great voice. She's like a vibrant and electro Kate Bush.

Here's the Spotify link to her EP Suukei. I recommend Red Sun.

Ben Howard - Old Pine. His Album Every Kingdom is great. Mellow and happy.

It's directed by Mickey Smith who did this... which is pure class.

Wood Kid - Iron. This is quite a big song that has been used on the Assasin Creed TV spot. The EP Iron is pretty epic

If you love off-beat music videos

Directed by Keith Schofield. Big fan. Check out his work here. http://keithschofield.com/

Kanye West Power

Check out Kanye West's new spot for his single Power. It's done by the Artist Marco Brambilla, and i have to say, it's quite stunning.

It's concept is inspired by the paintings of Michaelangelo. The nice twist is that everything has some slight movement to it. A painting for the digital generation if you will.

From the looks of things Kanye is beginning to believe that he's god.

One thing at a time Kanye.

This is the clean version with the models all clothed. Go here to see all the models naked. But only if you want to.

All you need is great music and art direction

Nike Air Max 90 for Foot Locker.

Music by Peter Fox

Gucci Guilty perfume TV spot directed by Sin City creator Frank Millar.

Music by The Friendly Fires.

F**k You by Cee Lo Green.

Newport - Concrete Jumble where is in order

A good parody of New York by Jay Z called Newport. Being half welsh i find this quite funny.

Cool music video

Designed and directed by The Might Elk.

The best of Vimeo from 2009

Let's kick off the new year with some of the best video's from Vimeo. The links here.

Vimeo seems to be a cooler version of youtube. It's also not plastered with pop up and overlay advertising....yet.

These videos are less babies dancing and cats playing keyboard. Most of them are all slickly produced.

Hire a gimp and get free calls and text

Exactly....why didn't we think of this?

Someone in our office stumbled across Giff Gaff, a new phone network. They are promoting their service in a slightly different way to say Vodafone or O2. They let you hire out different 'tools' to get a free calls and txt sim in return for making a video of your experience.

This is their mantra which is why we have ended up with a Gimp in our office.

"To introduce the world to giffgaff, the first people powered mobile network, we’ve created Tool hire. We think it’s a nice expression of our people powered ways and general back-scratching mentality. Hire a tool for free, make a great video, and we’ll give you a SIM card providing you with free UK calls, texts and internet for a year.

So, the Gimp was one of the weird and wonderful things you could hire. Take a look at the rest of their tools here.

Giff Gaff are hoping that the 'tool' are mental enough that people will blog and post their experiences on youtube.

I think it might have worked.

Oh, forgot to mention that we made him dance just before he left. Below is the remix, aptly named The Gimp Groove.

Really good music video's

Peter, Bjorn and John - It don't move me.

Justice - Let love rule.

What's great about music videos is how creative they always are. They don't have to have too much message take out apart from...'that was cool!"

There's a great scene in Almost Famous (Directed by Cameron Crowe) where the guitarist Russell Hammond says to the young wannabe reporter William Miller "Just make us look cool."

i think that's essentially what Musicians want from their promotional stuff. Wouldn't advertising be simpler if clients were the same!

Coldplay these music videos

Strawberry Swing

Life in Technicolour

It's hard not to like the latest music video from Coldplay. The humour and the craft is spot on. Their last offering, Life in Technicolour was equally as good.

Maybe it's a good thing that Coldplay are too busy to appear in their own video's.

2 videos, 1 post

Found two good videos today. One is the Simpsons take on Apple and the other is new video manipulation technology from Adobe. The possibilities for this are massive and the Simpsons piss take of Apple is scarily close to the truth. 

Conversations from the inside

This is a bonkers video for the Nike Women campaign "Here i am". It features Nicola Sander, but her insides get more of a staring role. 

This short is so intriguing as well as a little disturbing. Considering it's aimed at women it seems a little removed from the main audience. But it looks cool and has had loads of money thrown at it, and that's why we like it. 

Bring on the bigger budgets (or should be trumpets?)

Watch it here.

Take a trip right now!

Bjork's Wanderlust Video.

Apparently the concept came about in a non-sober state. I leave it to you guys to decided. Watch it from the youtube clip or here in quicktime (much better quality and resolution).

The making of can be found here here.