Awesome Music Video Wednesday!

It's that time again. The reason to get up on this hump day- it's the middle of the week and you're half way done!! Unless you work weekends and in that case, sorry to piss you off.

Anyway, what a turnout for reader comments last week! Thanks guys, you had lots of great ideas that I'll make sure to post in the upcoming weeks.

This week, I'm going to have to go with anonymous reader number two's request for a video by the imaginative film director Michel Gondry.

Gondry has been in the filming business for a few years directing unforgettable and surreal videos for some of the biggest names in music including Björk, The Vines, Kylie Minogue, The Rolling Stones, Massive Attack, Foo Fighters and The White Stripes which remain some of his most memorable.

I first heard The White Stripes years ago while watching Gondry's music video for 'Fell in love with a girl', in which the candy cane colored duo rock out in lego-mation. I've been in love with their music and their videos ever since.

It's hard to say which White Stripe song/video is my favorite. Their signature goth twin appeal and twisted brother/sister ex-lover story line is provoking, yet it would be a terrible insult to call their guitar and drum combination simple.

The White Stripes bring the gritty sweat and spit that reek of classic American blues and rock-wild for two pale white kids from Detroit.

I finally decided on 'The Hardest Button to Button" from their 2003 album Elephant. In the video, Jack and Meg White play their instruments all around New York City, literally. Gondry filmed the video in pixilation animation, in which the object and scenes are filmed in stop motion frame by frame. It's apparent that the video probably took a lot of time and patience to make (since later in the video the sun goes down), but that's the type of effort and dedication real artists like Gondry endure.

This was also around the time when Jack White was starting his transformation from a sexy Tim Burton caricature to a whimsical mad-genius like reincarnation of Salvador Dali. (Just watch the video and you'll notice the little freakish mustache).




Watch for Beck at the very end!!!

Also for your viewing pleasure, The Simpson's hysterical take on the video, have fun!







Enjoy More of Michel Gondry's videos at Ifilms.com
And check out with visually stimulating and heart felt flicks: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, and The Science of Sleep.