Video of the Year:
My morning VH1 addiction pays off finally No, Sheryl Crow’s not marrying me…yet. I just saw a video that made me spontaneously applaud: Star Guitar by the Chemical Brothers. Unfortunately the Chem Brothers have one of those crappy bandwidth-hogging all-Flash sites (death to Flash), but I managed to find an honest-to-god HTML page with links to the video. You’re welcome.
The video is the view from a train window. The song is an electronica track, and the images that pass by the train window are synched to the song. Remember the Volkswagen commercial where the actions on the street were synched to the music. Like that, but better. For example, the same building passes by the tracks with every snare hit, and when there’s a snare roll the building passes by for every hit in the roll. It’s an amazing bit of video work, because it is so utterly seamless.