Video Round-Up: Muse Edition

Video Round-Up is a weekly post collecting an assortment of videos from around the web. Whether they be music videos, creative viral marketing, just plain cool, or just plain ridiculous, they will all be found on Video Round-Up.

I'm happy I live in an age when any artist can broadcast his work without the help of patrons. It's even better when the art comprises video games and optical illusions set to chill electronica. Reading the notes for this video, the artists says he created the image with white construction paper; which is why he probably isn't kidding saying it took fifteen hours to complete.




The cousin of stop-motion animation, flipbook, is employed by this artist. The title is misleading, but it's otherwise Monty Python-influenced goodness. Offenbach included.




While the story of the original Final Fantasy is well known as rather shallow, this video puts a School House Rock spin on it to make it fun! Duane and Brando have made some other classic viral videos in this same vein, and I recommend those too. (I normally wouldn't say anything, but "prophecized" is not a word. It's "prophesied." Always. Unless you're using magic to turn things into prophecies.)




Oh, misunderstandings. You always know what someone isn't saying. Thank you for creating presidentially absurd situations.




Check out Cerebral Pop's Field Guide to Post-Rock for more information on Sigur Ròs. This is one of their many amazing songs, "Gong," to which a video has been put for a competition. This guy apparently won second place, and I don't contest that judgment. It might seem borderline pretentious, but all hatred aside, I'm genuinely impressed by the editing and how the tone of the video and the song match so perfectly.