I usually don’t post many thing late at night, but I figure this is kind of a fun one. Michel and Olivier Gondry teamed up to to direct this awesome video for the band Lacquer called Blend. The video is about a guy who has to drive across the country from Los Angeles to New York simple enough. So to create the video, they shot it on 16mm film, shooting one frame every second, and then one frame every 10 seconds at night. The overall effect is really awesome, compressing a seven day journey into a four minute video.

Living in LA I fin the beginning kid of funny, seeing as how it takes the guy no time at all to get from the ocean to Downtown LA. There’s really nothing exciting in between, but it isn’t as quick as they show it in the video. It looks like they’re taking the 10 to the 110, then the 110 to the 210 and then off to Las Vegas. Just watch it already, it’s a really fun video with a pretty good song as well. For some more info click here.

Bobby

6 Comments »

1. I love this clip, and the music… though I think the name of the track is “Behind”, not “Blend”.

   Comment by David — April 9, 2008 #

2. That looked amazing, though I’m sure it meant slightly more to you - I’ve no idea where they are!

   Comment by Rob McDougall — April 9, 2008 #

3. Who/what is the artist/name of the song?

   Comment by Justin — April 9, 2008 #

4. I read this post/listened to the song late last night, excuse my delirious and unnecessary question, the track name is mentioned in the post.

   Comment by Justin — April 9, 2008 #

5. No problem, I thought it was a little weird but I was just gonna let you slide without giving you shit about it, haha…

   Comment by Bobby — April 9, 2008 #

6. great video. i liked it better to album leaf’s song “shine” though. sorry lacquer.

   Comment by miles — April 9, 2008 #

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