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TRAVEL BLOG5.20.08
The Most Clever Music Video of the Year (So Far)The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from Manchester, England, didn’t have much money to spend on a music video. To get around the problem, the band performed in front of 80 closed-circuit television security cameras throughout its hometown—in a stairwell, on a bus, on a tram, in the middle of a street, and so on. The band secured some of the video through the Freedom of Information Act, then edited it into a music video for its song “Paper.” It’s quite clever—and a bit of an unorthodox travel video of Manchester. The song isn’t half bad, either. Here’s a BBC story about the effort. The video itself is below.
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COMMENTSCool idea, cool result! Kind of puts a new spin on “the stars of CCTV” - normally another term for petty criminals, I think… By on 5.20.08 at 04:37 PM
Hi Michael: As I put the finishing touches to my film project, MOVE, I’m wondering if someone could splice together footage of the anonymous super goading me to fight him in my coop building, cornering me in the elevator itself. I was provoked. Anyway, the pain and suffering I went through in the aftermath is legendary. It makes the Sorrows of Young Werther look like the shining and puling of a crybaby midget. My plan: maybe sell my 1.4 million Loft for 2 million, strap on a backpack and live for a year in London, Paris, or Prague. Sometimes one lousy event knocks over the dominos and sends us spinning with centrifugal force into the wild blue yonder. Hopefully they have all the location shots on security cam. John M. Edwards By on 5.20.08 at 07:44 PM
That vid is just soo cool! Funny twist recording via cctv!!! By Punk Rock on 5.28.08 at 08:37 AM
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