With the slew of random Tumblr photo blogs, cat videos and “fails” appearing on the internet these days, it’s easy to forget that the web can provide a previously unavailable platform for people to showcase their creativity.
Take the example of PJ Ligouri – a 19 year-old Youtuber who has built up a community of followers who eagerly await each video he uploads to the channel. While his videos share a lot of the characteristics of videologging (vlogging) i.e. – a guy or girl in their bedroom talking to camera, the real creativity comes in the form of PJ’s self-taught skills in animation and special effects in packages like Final Cut Pro, Photoshop and After Effects, which have given his videos an extra and unique element.
Youtube first featured his videos on the front page in 2007 and he has since uploaded over 60 videos to the channel with over 31,000 Youtube subscribers and 2.25 million video views in total. His latest videos are particularly impressive. A Story About A Girl (below)/A Story About A Boy sees PJ apply his skills to live video creating live storytelling out of thin air with hand gestures.
An equally creative individual, but in the A/V mashup realm is 21-year old Perth artist Pogo whose mix of Alice in Wonderland has had over received over 4 million views with over 11 million views of all videos in total.
Beastie Boys mashup album
From the same guy who brought you the Jay-Z/Radiohead remix album Jaydiohead, comes a mashup album where the Beastie Boys are mashed up with themselves to surprisingly good effect.
http://www.doublecheckyourhead.com/
Neon Indian remixes Au Revoir Simone
One of my favourite new acts of the year remixes the Brooklyn girl trio into a synthesized Italo-esque head swhirl.
http://short.ie/neonsimone
Starsmith takes on Lisa Mitchell
Rising London producer Starsmith takes Australian Idol winner into new Balearic territory.
http://short.ie/starsmiff
New Los Campesinos!
The under-rated Welsh septet quietly released a new song and video for ‘The Sea is a Good Place to Think Of The Future’ on their blog last week.
http://short.ie/loscamp
After our Kings of Leon covers post on Monday, this video has come to our attention. Everyone knows* that the band employ a bunch of musicians behind a screen off-stage to play the songs live because they are such incompetent musicians but when the band appeared on Jools Holland, he demanded they play themselves resulting in this abomination…
*This may not be strictly true..
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