Eva Sterk is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter group with post rock overtones. Their latest music clip for the tune "No Note" was shot in the suburbs of Eastern Berlin and directed by realeyz.tv video blogger Laura Huertas Zurriaga. Some other members of the realeyz.tv team and their families are also involved.
The clip's considerable charm lies in Continue Reading

SoftwareDR (Dirk Roth) has created an amazing shot by shot recreation of Joy Division’s career-making live rendition of “Transmission” on Tony Wilson’s show “Something Else” on Granada TV. Wilson was a British TV journalist who later founded the Manchester-based Factory Records, the label Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays and many other seminal post punk Continue Reading

 
Photo: On the set of the music video ‘Gotta Give’ (courtesy of Steps for the Future)
Reading an obituary about Gil Scott-Heron’s untimely death at age 62 on Friday, May 27, greatly saddened me. Scott-Heron’s witty and incisive social commentary had been a great source of inspiration, call to action and solace for almost three decades.He Continue Reading

The internet equivalent of zapping - surfing and clicking on hypertext links (although less arbitrary, more interactive than zapping and demanding more coginitive effort) - and the proliferation of YouTube supposedly shorten attention spans even more. Until 2010, video uploads on YouTube couldn’t exceed ten minutes, which meant chopping up sitcom episodes into three, feature Continue Reading

In the 2000s, the clip also transcended the boundaries of the rectangular TV screen. The image became smaller but also portable and accessible 24/7 on the web and mobile devices. Or it was blown up and even multiplied for crossover with installation art and VJing, coming almost full circle to past immersive forms of music-vision-synthesis Continue Reading

Tape.tv
Berlin-based start up and leading German commercial online clip channel. Financed by (unobtrusive) advertising and currently available in Germany only. Tape.tv’s secret? Good image quality, large (though not comprehensive) selection, and nice personalising features inspired by Last.fm - you can love and ban videos, select genres and moods. The killer app, though, is the mixtape Continue Reading

1. Madonna - Rock the Vote PSA for MTV
Madonna fixation exorcised herewith, promised!
In 1990, at the height of her cultural influence, Madonna did this spot for MTV’s young voter drive during the mid-term elections. A few years later, ever eluding consistency, Madonna cavalierly remarked that she didn’t vote.

2. Rage Against the Machine - Testify
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The director of LIFE IN LOOPS, Timo Novotny, has created the music clip “Playing the Game” for the single from the new Sofa Surfer album Blindside . Performer/singer Mani Obeya (photo left) is credited for text, dancing and choreography. Obeya has been a member of the Sofa Surfers since 2005. Filmmaker and VJ Novotny also Continue Reading