I just stumbled across another contribution to the M83 contest a few weeks back. I really appreciate the way this video looks. An elegant hand-held style, letting the multi-colored lights from an urban night light up four hipster-kids hanging out.

I just love the grainy strong-colored look that´s been created by shooting it at night only using the light sources available at the location.


M83 We own the sky from Matei-Alexandru Mocanu on Vimeo.

This is one of the funniest clips I´ve seen in a long time. Let´s face it people; Pacman is far from dead, and he´s always been french.



Why not check out Rèmi Gaillards website as well to see more of your favourite videogame-characters facing the real world.

Sorry for the long wait of the enticipated second edition of Gerilja.

This week Stavanger bright and shiny new singer-songwriter hope Sebastian Waldejer is featuring his new song "On a Wedneday".

Gerilja #2 - Sebastian Waldejer from Kai Arne Soot on Vimeo.

For those of you who missed Malajubes previous album in 2006, make sure you dont miss out on this one as well. Labyrinths, their third album, was released a few weeks ago.

Malajube is a Canadian alternative powerpop band from Montreal. All lyrics are in french, so I have no idea what they´re singing. But who cares... When I heard Trompe-l’œil back in 2006 it was some of the most fresh guitar-based music I´d heard in years.. Wonderful to see that they still keep that amazing vibe going.

What I´ve heard of Labyrinth tells me that allthough the band has not moved far from the sound of Trompe-l’œil, the recipe still seems fresh. When something is working, why fix it? Portè Disparu was released as the albums first "single" with it´s very own video. The title roughly translates "reported missing". The video fits nicely by killing off the bands members one at a time:


MALAJUBE || PORTÉ DISPARU from Dare To Care Records on Vimeo.

Just found this two wheat-paste images on a wall right outside Checkpoint Charlie here in Stavanger. Nice to see some active artists on the streets of this otherwise uneventful city...

Great news for Young Replicant, a teenage director's label and design collective hailing from Los Angeles... Yesterday the french band M83 announced the collective as winners of the "We own the sky" music video competition.

For months directors from all over the world has posted contributions to the competition, but director Alex Takacs and Young Replicants drew the longest straw with their beatutifully shot video centering around young love, lens flares, and a confetti party!

Watch the video that according to M83´s Anthony Gonzalez... "perfectly fits to the music and the lyrics. It's exactly what I had in mind when I wrote the song."

Swedish animator/graphic designer Kristofer Ström is behind this cute semi-animated video for "Animals" by Minilogue. I find the way the bizarre little characters fit into to the video-material quite fascinating. Kudos for great characters!
PS: Make sure you catch the little ones beating each other with clubs:


Minilogue - Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

Ok... So here wo go!
This is my first edition of what will be a weekly addition to this blog; the GERILJA project. Once a week I will post a new artist performing live on the streets, first out:
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This January my girlfriends band, Braving the Glacier, did an amazing show at local venue Checkpoint Charlie. The concert was part of the Norwegian battle-of-the-bands like competition "Zoom 09". Though they did´nt make it to the finales, they were hailed as one of the most supprising new acts in the city and played for their largest audience so far..

Me and my friend Martin Arneberg did a simple two-camera production with a direct audio feed from the PA-mixer. Martins cam on a tripod, mine free-hand.

Talented Japanese singer-sonwriter shot in a beautiful way by Vincent Moon.


Fiume Nights _ Osaka _ Nikaido Kazumi, february 2009 from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.