Killer vid for Stereolab’s new single.

It’s getting hot out there. You know what that means.

So in this series of nicely shot videos, Vice goes looking for the lead singer of a Norwegian Black Metal band, a guy named Gaahl who supposedly tortured someone 15 years ago. The Vice guys proceed to scare the daylights out of themselves, like a bunch of school girls at a slumber party, cuddling underneath a sheet. But watch, and by the fourth and fifth episodes, the Big Bad Boogie Man seems like a libertarian without any friends—which is really what Satanism boils down to, once you strip away all the makeup and angst. (By in large, the commenters buy the ruse.) BTW, Black Metal is what inspired Banks Violette’s church made of salt—the New York Times piece about it, and Black Metal, is excellent.

The month of May is devoted to the ecstatic moment. Sample some on Sunday at the Can Factory.

via Channel 53

A classic, via The Moment, which attempted a kind of high-brow survey, asking people to send in their fave videos about “dancing about architecture. This was Andreas Angelidakis’s submission. (He’s the guy that did these interesting buildings in second life.) After the jump, a nice but somewhat static video Angelidakis made, inspired by Nomi:

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Assume Vivid Astro Focus, eat your heart out. The vid is from the documentary directed by Pat Mire, Dance For a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras—the whole film is online, thanks to the amazing Folkstreams; the website has interesting stuff for years. (I got this from somewhere and I can’t remember! Holler if it was your blog.) From an interesting essay on the tradition:

Led by a flag-bearing capitaine, this colorful and noisy procession of masked and costumed men on horses and wagons go from house to house in the countryside asking for charity in return for a performance of dancing and buffoonery. The participants are earnestly employed chasing chickens, the most valued offering, and they pride themselves on their ability to collect enough “live chickens” to feed the entire community “free of charge.”

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via DGSF Liz

I haven’t listened to Low in years, but this is really nice. Coloring book versions of special effects like Bullet Time and the “zoom-through-the-eyehole” shot that was in every McG video ever made. Video by Manuel Aragon.

via DGSF Chris, who actually pointed me to the real one, which is better.

Via Everyone Forever (though I think they’re way off in saying this video is good because of “how crap it is.” C’mon guys. This is just good because it’s good, not good because it’s bad. There’s life beyond design foppery)