wtf? this is not a public domain movie in any way. one of the directors is Spike Jonze, and it has Owen Wilson in it for craps sake! the first 10 seconds are an even an add for a video piracy channel on Efnet!

but anyways, they intent to make money on these, not just put them out for promotion. its a serious revenue generator, and although their market is now skater kids with internet connections that doesn't mean this is a freely available, public domain film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368456/

... i think i'll just let it sit and die, and not bother anybody about it... but only because i'm lazy

"Fully Flared is a skateboarding video by Lakai, directed by Ty Evans, Spike Jonze and Cory Weincheque."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Flared

Dir. Ty Evans talks about the intro (shot 3 weeks before the movie premier), and about filming skateboarding in HD here - http://www.skateperception.com/viewspot/19/

doesn't take a film nerd to see a Mr. Spike Jonze's may have lent a hand in this...

*art
*wtf at that _massive_ fireball after the switchflip over the stairs

This a Mark Romanek music video. The DVD "The Work of Director Mark Romanek" has a discussion of how this video was made. It is part of series of DVDs about music video directors. The other directors in the series are: Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze and Stephane Sednaoui.

Wikipedia has lists for each director's music videos. Here's the one for Mark Romanek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek

ahahaha! I was scrolling down to make an almost identical comment! I saw "Weapons" and thought, "Whaaat???"

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
Umm... I honestly can't believe I'm the first one to mention this.

It's "Weapon of Choice". Not plural.

Bookmarked. Love this clip. Easily one of the best music videos ever.

Love this Spike Jonze/Bjork/animated cat/ beatbox extravaganzaaaa!!! Prrrrrow!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Spike Jones, Cat, dance' to 'Spike, Jonze, Cat, dance, bjork, iceland, vocal, noises, bar' - edited by bamdrew

here's a new link for your Daft Punk dead video...




In reply to this comment by plastiquemonkey:
*undead

Oooo
Blimey
Mmmm

Congratulations

I am absolutely stunned that this wasn't already on the sift. What the fuck's going on?!
Reasons why I assumed it would've been...

1. Spike Jonze
2. Beastie Boys
3. Monumental song
4. Fucking brilliant video.
5. Fake Moustaches

This deserves Top 15 status. Without a doubt.

(I am also stunned, but not really, that this got a downvote. Ant - How many of the above points do you disagree with?)

Tags changed from "commercial, ad, funny, trash, dust, yarly" to "commercial, ad, spike,jonze,dust, yarly" by gold star member Krupo.

Adding an *art tag to match tagology of http://www.videosift.com/video/GAP-Ad-by-Spike-Jonze

And a *promote for a truly worthy vid!

This is a Mark Romanek music video. It is one of the music videos featured on “The Work of Director Mark Romanek” DVD.

What’s different about this video from the other Mark Romanek music videos is that Weezer and Romanek fought during the shoot. In all the other interviews on the DVD, bands gushed about what great friends they’d become with Romanek. Many of them put their trust in his vision and were very happy with the results.

Also, interesting is the little joke Romanek threw in: a florescent sign “weerez”, instead of “weezer.” The band later ended up doing t-shirts with the misspelling.

You have seen many of Romanek music videos. Wikipedia has a thorough list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek

About “El Scorcho””

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Scorcho

The DVD series also includes the following music video directors: Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Jonathan Glazer, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Stephane Sednaoui. Some of them have crossed over into feature films. Each DVD is set up a little differently.


*save

(favorite clip, by the way, is Spike Jonze's long-lost brother at 1:46)

Not only is this song (and video) great, but the entire "mini documentary" that accompanies it is priceless — you can get the whole shebang (as well as a crapload of Spike Jonze other fan-fucking-tastic videos) on the DVD "The Work of Director Spike Jonze."

End plug!