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Guiness have a simple yet perfect concept it seems. Always playing on the quality inside the pint and that it's worth waiting for. However I came across this advert which is so ridiculous and isn't what I'm used to seeing from these guys. The music created is just as splendid, love it! ...just watch:
Rough Hands - Alexisonfire
This song will obviously not be liked by everyone but for a moment just forget that you hate music like this and then look again.
Songs that capture moods and enhance them through a short experience, such as this, are works of great creativity in my opinion. It's really difficult to create good lyrics, create matching melodies and deliver them successfully. The fact that this song has found a concept and delivered it well makes it stand out in my opinion. I am obviously biased towards liking it as I like the band but this doesn't mean I'm wrong. If you read the lyrics (which you have to due to it being difficult to hear) you find that the mood of the song matches the ideas within it.
Rough Hands, taking the term literally, could be considered a symbol of a person becoming old or a hint that a person has been through a lot of hardship. The way simple things are interpreted and expanded upon to explain strong concepts in music is one that is similar in visual media. The link is very close and when the application is acheived successfully it tends to make the work stand out.
Other songs within their repitour have similar standards of creativity and depict images through crazy lyrics like:
The sky's a brick wall. The ground's a juggernaut. Each day they get a bit closer. Between them, i am caught.
This is taken from the song This could be Anywhere, which creates a dark image of a city and its inhabitants, a gem of a song in my opinion. The creative approach to these visions is very inspiring and the way they paint such a good image in your mind is perfect. If you can handle the screaming and darker side of their music then there is a lot of inspiration to be absorbed in how they translate their ideas across.
Rodolphe Simeon has conjured up some moving photographs on his website which make up some inspirational portfolios. The photo featured above is one that particularly caught my eye. It not only shows the figure above the bottom edge of the photo, (that we usually assume to be the ground), suggesting they are floating and therefore nearer to heaven, but it also hints that the person has recently passed away. This covers the caption in two perspectives using a simple composition. Very cleverly applied, effective and clear to the observer.
Also present on the website are portraits which pose the characters to be almost fairytale like, especially apparent in the M-People and some of the Women portfolios, which have an underlying darker attitude when compared to the more subtle The Street portfolio. This reminds me of Tim Burton who has a similar style.
It impresses me how so many emotions can be created through the face of a person. Some of these photos only use a minimal amount of "special effects" in order to generate a personality from the subject material. The possibilities available from something so common to us all is really quite amazing. I personally think it's a wonder how we never get bored of looking at faces and their ever changing configurations. If you can do so much with just a face then the scope for creativity for an artist is huge.
Website is below:
http://www.m-peoplephotography.com/index.html
When you take things out of their normal environment they become funny, with a bit of help from music, costumes, slow motion and "caption-ous maxim-ous", that is...
Laurent Briet directs videos for a range of genres in music. One that stands out to me is the song What Sarah Said by a group called Death Cab for Cutie. The way in which the visuals emphasise feelings in the viewer compliments the song. Generating an emotional reaction to a video is something I find Laurent Briet accomplishes easily. The videos are ingenious and techniques used are cleverly applied.
Fashionably Uninvited by Mellowdrone was another example that impressed me. A completely different mood and style which shows the directors flexibility.
See blog: http://www.laurentbriet.com/