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Thru You is a site that showcases remixed YouTube videos...the singing from one video combined with the drums from another and the piano from a third and so on. I was skeptical but these are really well done. Do I even need to say that this reminds me of Christian Marclay's Video Quartet? (via sfj)
In a compilation of 64 videos all shown on the same page, one man recreates Thriller -- the beats, the howling, the singing -- all by himself. This is pretty awesome, like Christian Marclay on speed. (thx, christopher)
3x3 video mashup call and response old commercial row row row your boat. Oh, just go watch it, it's cool, especially if you like The Clapper and Christian Marclay. (via waxy, from whom I'm detecting signs of life re: his blog)
Artist Christian Marclay says that Apple contacted him about using his short film Telephones for their iPhone commercial. He refused and they went ahead and made the commercial using the same idea with different footage. Says Marclay, "the way they dealt with the whole thing is pretty sleazy". TouchExplode gets credit for spotting the reference. (via df)
A commercial for the iPhone aired during the Oscars last night. Rick Silva noticed that it was a lot like artist Christian Marclay's 1995 piece Telephones (the relevant clip starts at 3:40) and, to a lesser extent, Matthias Mueller's film, Home Stories. Nice detective work!
Update: Here's a list of all the actors in the iPhone commercial (except one).
Update: The missing "French Woman" is Audrey Tautou from Amelie. (thx to several folks who wrote in)
Christian Marclay will be premiering his new piece, Screen Play, at Eyebeam on Nov 11th. Damn the luck, I'll be out of town. I loved Marclay's Video Quartet piece.
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