Online video has not just resurrected the music video, it has effectively replaced the woefully inadequate and banal cable channel, MTV, also known as the 53rd arm of notorious youtube, public domain, and open market media enemy, Viacom.
I have personally taken shits and looked at them and found them far more insightful, innovative and entertaining than anything that has passed through the cancerously clogged colon that is MTV networks in the past seven years.
Enter Sputnik7.com.
A new site that uses the audiotube player format to allow users to view and share their favorite vids with other likeminded contemporaries and fans, Sputnik7 covers the whole spectrum of the music video and indie film industry,. Including, interviews with the creators, documentaries, the latest from the greatest video effects houses, and press junket clips as well.
I won’t fault them for their lack of embedding capabilities, as they have artists livelihoods to protect, and, as far as I can tell, we the viewers would rather fistfuck ourselves with a porcupine glove before we paid for less than five minutes of video. So you must visit the site to view and you should cause its gooood.
My current favorites:
Their inside info on the making of Little Red Robot’s “Ay Yo My Man” is awesome as the song itself.
In the Fantasy section they have uploaded Alessandro Bavari’s “Headcleaner” a horrific/fantasy at times reminiscent of a Dali masterpiece brought to life.
And, my personal favorite, from the vfx and design media geniuses at Headlight, their reinterpretation of The Boy Who Cried Wolf fable, “Wolfie” performed in stop animation with Russian Babushka dolls is eerily brilliant and delightful.
I look forward to Sputnik7’s embrace of the dramatic works that are both sorely lacking on the internet and sure to come their way given their refined taste for the best of online video.
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