Starting with illustrations by Gabriel Alcala, director Ben Jones and the animation crew at Bento Box in Los Angeles whip up a batch of appropriately hallucinatory visuals for “Genius,” featuring Labrinth, Sia, and Diplo (aka LSD). [Watch]
Anonymous Content director Grant Singer and The Mill VFX crew keep viewers off kilter by yanking them from one surreal tableau to the next in The Weeknd’s soaring “Call Out My Name.” [Watch]
Director Russ Murphy (RUFFMERCY): “This is my third collaboration with Paul White. The first was through my video for Danny Brown’s ‘ODB.’ The second was for the song ‘Where you gonna go’ from Paul’s debut album ‘Shaker Notes’. [Watch]
Motion designers The Dink and Laurence Honderick team up for an effervescent three-minute romp through the song “I Like Taylor Swift” for London band Coach Hop. [Watch]
Exactly four years ago Stash published “Turn Down For What,” the music video for DJ Snake & Lil Jon by Prettybird directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. In that post I was not shy in my praise for the work, calling it a “surgically choreographed jaw-dropper of frenzied testosterone… 3.5 minutes-o-genius.” [Watch]
What do two hours of motion brilliance look like hyper-compressed into just two minutes? Correct, exactly like this trailer for Stash 128. [Watch]
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