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1. The Strokes: "You Only Live Once" - HD
11 months ago
From Pitchfork.com 5.29.07:
"'You Only Live Once' was always the best song on the album. Its video, however, opens with 'Ize of the World', which suddenly sounds kinda right as a soundtrack to fast-forward images of bustling escalators, rising gas prices, and an eclipse complete with 2001 monolith. Nuclear holocaust ensues; Jimmy Carter gets sampled. Luckily, New York's rock royals are preserved on a rocket ship bound for Sirius, part of a digital archive of life on Earth. As various video monitors tell future species about sex, war, and religion, the holographic Strokes perform on board, sometime in the 420th century.
After detouring through either a Pink Floyd laser show or a wormhole, the video somehow ends with leather-clad Julian Casablancas & co. back safely in 1977. Punk rock. We shit you not. " - Marc Hogan
Director: Warren Fu
VFX: Louis Katz, Warren Fu & Laundry Design
Producers: Chris Noviello, Steve Jang, Warren Fu
Client: RCA Records / imeem
"'You Only Live Once' was always the best song on the album. Its video, however, opens with 'Ize of the World', which suddenly sounds kinda right as a soundtrack to fast-forward images of bustling escalators, rising gas prices, and an eclipse complete with 2001 monolith. Nuclear holocaust ensues; Jimmy Carter gets sampled. Luckily, New York's rock royals are preserved on a rocket ship bound for Sirius, part of a digital archive of life on Earth. As various video monitors tell future species about sex, war, and religion, the holographic Strokes perform on board, sometime in the 420th century.
After detouring through either a Pink Floyd laser show or a wormhole, the video somehow ends with leather-clad Julian Casablancas & co. back safely in 1977. Punk rock. We shit you not. " - Marc Hogan
Director: Warren Fu
VFX: Louis Katz, Warren Fu & Laundry Design
Producers: Chris Noviello, Steve Jang, Warren Fu
Client: RCA Records / imeem
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Its great!!! Love it!!!!
Thanks, a lot, for the gift =D
Kissu~~
THIS is a sorely neglected modern classic, both as a video & a song. This single should have re-instated The Stokes as contemporary prime movers & the video has been criminally ignored by the general public at large.
What's the deal?
This could have gone many, many miles for helping to aid the dying carcass of the music industry. It was commissioned, so why didn't RCA use it to greater extent ?
It obviously wasn't cheap & I'd really like to know more about this piece's origins. Perhaps it was more of a personal initiative on the creator's part than is apparent. I was a late comer to this clip last year & was shocked to have simply stumbled over it through pure happenstance.
This is the sort of thing that makes me GLAD that the music industry, it's archaic & oafish business model anyway, IS dying!
Is this a miniature "One From The Heart" or perhaps a "Heaven's Gate" of our time? Or is this line of thinking too prosaic ?
At any rate, a GREAT music video!
Simply BEAUTIFUL work on many, many levels.
The video cost a bit over 10K... through the hard work of a few dedicated artists that believed in the video concept, we somehow managed to get the work done.
Thanks again for your comment! It inspires us to do even better the next time around.
-Warren
All the best and wishing you all the success you deserve!
A. Dee