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After FM
MTV News has an article about the making of Shynola’s badass video for Queens of the Stone Age’s “Go With The Flow”. Unfortunately, there isn’t a whole lot of technical information in the piece (about all I took out of it is “they filmed the band and then they used a computer”), but they did drop one interesting piece of info: the visual style for the video was inspired by comic book artist Frank Miller, specifically his series Sin City.
These days I find myself becoming less and less interested in comics, but the Sin City series (not to mention Miller’s ground breaking Legends of the Dark Knight), plus Mike Mignola’s Hellboy (soon-to-be a major motion picture), will always be on my bookshelf. Do check them out, if the opportunity arises.
Just curious, but are you losing interest in comics from a visual or storytelling standpoint? There are some great comics starting to trickle out that really do deserve a wider audience, one of which is Jason Lutes’ excellent Jar of Fools. It’s an intelligent & enjoyable read, but the one point is that the subtle visual metaphors really bring a weight to the work, which simply can’t be done outside the comic medium.
Oh, and um, hello by the way. I’m new around here. I’ll shut up now.
Kean—I’m going to check that out. Even though the note isn’t to me. Yeah.
I think that Queens of the Stone Age video is one of the most innovative things out right now (maybe except for the cliche sexual allusion..but really it wouldn’t be as good without it, as it is the theme). It’s good to hear that it was inspired by Sin City. I wonder why I didn’t notice that before. Thanks for that.
