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This video is my first music video. I chose this song because the subject matter was easy for me to interpret. I wrote the song while recording our unreleased album for BMG Records. Things were not going well; we had made the mistake of agreeing to have the same manager as the record producer who had liked our demo and had got us the record deal. The manager was so concerned about looking after his major client that he didn't look after ours.
Project Vector: "Out of the Closet"
Rock/techno artist Project Vector debuts in the realm of video with "Out of the Closet," a self-shot and self-edited video. With neither the time for extensive on-location shooting or the budget to hire a professional video production company, Project Vector's Dave Gastambide dived in with almost no experience in video and produced what many are calling a surprisingly good clip for a first try. "I basically just shot most of the footage in front of a green screen and used a lot of compositing and digital effects to try and create some interesting visuals," Dave elaborates. "I didn't really know what the heck I was doing, but it was fun." "Out of the Closet" is the opening track on REALITY SHOW, Project Vector's debut CD released earlier in 2005. The album has gradually been winning PV an enthusiastic following who dig the unusual stylistic hybrids and the willingness to intelligently explore controversial subjects.
The Wimshurst's Machine: "Magic Lights"
This was the very first video presentation of the band, created for their most-requested song, "Magic Lights", from their first album, "A traveller who didn't ask for glory".
The Sony VAIO NR160 is a perfectly functional, budget 15-inch laptop--we just wish it didn't stray so far from the excellent industrial design of the company's more expensive systems.
Meet the ultimate, unlikely diva: Luis Guzman, in this video shot behind-the scenes of the movie "Waiting." From the blog of the director of "Waiting":
"Okay, here's a little preface: We were fortunate enough to have a guy, Jason Vowell, constantly filming behind-the-scenes footage, so it became commonplace. As a result, the actors let their guard down and often didn't notice the camera... And further as a result, I have this clip of Luis Guzman and I getting into a really bad argument, with him becoming a real asshole. I have to be honest, I didn't originally intend to show this clip to anyone. I thought "maaaaaaybe I'll put it on the 10-year anniversary DVD." (Yup, I've deluded myself into thinking there will be a demand for a 10-year anniversary DVD), because after 10 years it won't matter anyway... But the reason I've changed my mind is because Luis has been talking a bunch of shit about me in interviews. Someone on the IMDB message boards posted this link to slam online ... Here's the quote if you don't want to leave this page:
'Tell me about your film Waiting... What's really hood with that?
I had a good time doing that, but the director was a real a******. The guy gotta go to like acting school so he could understand actors better. Don't get me wrong, he did a nice job writing the stuff, but he was always like directing everybody on how to act. It got to the point to where I said, "Yo dude, how many films have you made?" And he said, "This is my first film." And I say, "Dude, this is like my 65th film. I think I can do this." I said, "Don't bawl, I'm gonna take care of you and do a good job." This director, he's a nice dude, but he don't know half the s*** he doing. You can write that cause I told him that to his face in front of everybody.'
I was even going to let it go after that. I fought back my urge to issue a retort for the last couple weeks... But I have since heard him say similar things to a couple of TV interviewers. My girlfriend (who works at Lions Gate Publicity actually) told me she heard him say the same basic thing to a journalist...IN THE PRESS LINE OF MY OWN F*CKING PREMIERE!... So that was it. As far as I'm concerned, all bets are off... Screw being the bigger man. I'm going to show you the clip.
Here's the set-up for the clip: Basically, I wanted Luis to cheer the character "Calvin" on by saying "You can do it!" (not like Rob Schneider, by the way), and he wanted to cheer him on by calling him a "Pissing-Pussy-Bitch." This is supposed to be Calvin's dream sequence where everyone is being nice to him, and I tried to explain that to Luis, but he wouldn't fucking budge. You tell me if I was being out of line, or if I was "directing him on how to act.""
Diddy feat. Christina Aguilera: "Tell Me"
Good hip-hop producers create hot beats, beats you can dance to, rhyme over, remember.Great hip-hop producers, however, create a sound. They have a point of view. If you didn't know that before, you will definitely know that now, once you catch any of the fourteen tracks that make up Press Play, Diddy's dazzling new Bad Boy/Atlantic Records release. As Diddy and guest stars Ciara and Big Boi intone on Wanna Move, it's a CD that will get you high on music while you enjoy the vibe.
No one can say they didn't see these two brats coming! Check out the video for "Dance" from Justice, released on Vice Records.
As Kelly Willis planned to go into the studio last fall, she really didn't know what to expect. She had spent the four years since co-producing her 2002 album, the lovely, laid-back Easy, on family matters: her oldest son Deral, born in 2001, got three siblings -- twins Abby and Ben born in 2004 and baby Joseph, whose birth followed in early 2006. "This time around, I had absolutely no time or energy to be involved in the producer role at all," Willis recalls. So she called a guy "who lives and breathes music," whose instincts she loved and who she felt "really comfortable around": Chuck Prophet, the edgy singer-songwriter who contributed guitar to both Easy and 1999's acclaimed What I Deserve. Together, they would create the most sonically adventurous album of Kelly Willis' seventeen-plus-year recording career, "Translated From Love."
An all-calls show, but we didn't plan it that way.
A new vacuum technique named "Airgap" by IBM promises to make the company's processors faster and possibly more energy efficient. IBM expects the first 320-nanometer microprocessors using this new technology to appear in 2009. Here's an animated video produced by IBM to explain how the new chips will be built.
