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The Download.com Video team presents highlights from some of our favorite user-submitted videos. In this installment, we've got Birmingham-based UK hip hop, a meditative music video from Virginia, and some LA neo-new wave. To watch each individual video, follow the links below.
1.) Dirty Star: "Negarita Aura"
2.) Phil Snapp: "Relax This Dream"
3.) Pom Pom Diary: "Thursday"
Phil Snapp: "Relax This Dream"
Features time lapse from numerous cities. Shot in New York, Richmond, and England.
Join Robert Lebowitz on a journey through New York City.
Socadia: "Sleeping While You Drive"
The video revolves around a metaphor for the trust we give and take in our lives. Trust is shown through a ride in a car with someone, while the car is a shell used to transport your life from one place to another and back again to the beginning. The places in the journey and the lights around are memories and experiences that we have and see during our life. The lady driver is a person of experience who gives us the chance to see life and allows us to experience it for ourselves--she's giving us trust in life. The video was shot using low budget DV Cameras and a very fast digital still camera using different techniques at different speeds.
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The Bird and the Bee: "Again and Again"
Over the course of 3 years, Inara George and Greg Kurstin, alias the bird and the bee, whiled away scattered afternoons in Greg's home studio in Echo Park, California, sequestered in a little world of their own making, and creating the ten sunshine-drenched, semi-psychedelic ditties you hold before you. Were these compositions intended for public consumption? Inara and Greg never gave it any thought; they made music together simply for the joy of it. ? with no real goal for the music except to enjoy the journey of making it. As casual as this sounds, the backgrounds of Inara George and Greg Kurstin are nothing to scoff at? Multi-instrumentalist Greg was a jazz piano prodigy by the time he started shaving; he moved to New York specifically to study with leftist Jaki Byard, a jazz icon best known as Mingus' pianist. He returned to Los Angeles and became one of the city?s most well respected musicians, lending his skills to the likes of Beck and Robert Moog, as well as writing with and/or producing The Flaming Lips, Peaches, and Lily Allen, to name a few. Inara George is the daughter of Lowell George, frontman of the eclectic ?70s Southern rock band Little Feat. For several years she was in different bands in the LosAngeles area until she began her solo career releasing 2005's critically acclaimed All Rise. During the making of that record was when Greg and Inara first met.
Will it be Steve or Phil giving the keynote? The App of the Week tracks your "cycle," and the SlingPlayer app sets off Brian.
Time-lapse videos compress imperceptibly slow events into short videos, seeming to speed up time before your eyes. We'll show you how they are made and how to shoot one of your own.
"Take This Life" is the roll-out single and video from In Flames' wildly anticipated new album, "Come Clarity." The "Take This Life" video was produced and directed by long time In Flames collaborator Patric Ullaeus (for Revolver Film Company) and features the band (Bjorn Gelotte - Guitars, Daniel Svensson - Drums, Peter Iwers - Bass, Jesper Stromblad - Guitars and Anders Friden - Vocals) performing against the backdrop of New York City's Times Square as an evolving storyline unfolds. In addition to his video work with In Flames, Ullaeus is known for directing the Lacuna Coil hit videos "Heaven's a Lie" and "Swamped". In Flames has been one of the leaders of the underground metal movement for over 10 years. With over 1,000,000 records sold worldwide and coming off a successful tour as part of OZZFEST 2005, where they shared the festival's main stage with Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and others, the time is ripe for this Swedish quintet to continue their ascent. The band's recent success, as well as that of their counterparts -- including Killswitch Engage (whom they co-headlined with in 2004), Shadows Fall and Lamb of God -- has paved the wave for metal bands to break through to the mainstream.
