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Hugh Mcleod of Gapingvoid.com is posting his email exchange with Scottish director Dave Mackenzie about the marketing of his upcoming feature film Hallam Foe.

Dave asks:

So, we don’t have big budget hi-con studio material and we don’t have hip lo-fi hi-con from the myspace crowd, we have a rather special classy little teen movie that can’t be easily classified. So what do we have to offer in terms of marketing that is going to get us our must-see tag?

I get the impression that Hugh doesn’t really know yet but that he’s working on it.

Link: word of mouth is not created, word of mouth is co-created

The Killers video trailer for their upcoming single “When You Were Young” is much more interesting than the actual video.

“A sneak peek at the video from one of the “best albums of the past twenty years.” - Youtube about page

The Stereogum comments are pretty good.

i think u all need 2 watch again. u have 2 figure out teh simbolicm then you will like it.
Posted by: mtv2gurl at August 18, 2006 4:46 AM

Dude, whoever translated that to Spanish doesn’t know shit.
Posted by: Dirtysweet at August 17, 2006 10:04 PM

They start ripping on Brandon Flowers, the lead singer and front man. They establish that he is married, is Mormom, does drink, but does not do cocaine.

hahaha no, he drinks. i drank with him after a concert last year, and he started wandering around singing to himself pretentiously and the roadies and other bands and even the rest of the killers were all making fun of him.
Posted by: Ali at August 17, 2006 6:42 PM

I blogged about Guyz Night’s Die Hard Video. Today I recieved word that per 20th Century Fox’es request YouTube has removed the video.

20th Century Fox Can’t take a joke. They yanked our video. We challenged them to a knife fight, they declined. We reposted the film on ifilm.

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2762591

Rock.

The Guyz

I got your back if they end up taking the challenge.

Check out this horrendous spoof of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. My favorite part is when Al Gore’s penguin army goes to a “Red State Theater” and falls asleep during An Inconvenient Truth. Then they cut to the penguins watching X-Men 3 and all they all start cheering. To me the suggestion is that documentaries are boring to people from red states. I might be offended if I lived in middle America.

Supposedly the spoof was created by some youtuber but its since been traced to a PR firm that represents Republican interests. Exxon Mobile is one of their biggest clients (ABC News). Corporations are always trying to seed the internet with crap masquerading as fan or activist made. It never feels authentic and usually backfires once bloggers or the media exposes them. What corporations don’t get is that if they engaged consumers authentically, with a story that was worth hearing, they would have a much better chance of getting their message across. Had Exxon produced a video that honestly explained the reality of our oil-based economy it help me cut them some slack.

Lying to me about their shitty flash animation just encourages me to take the subway. Or atleast boycot Exxon gas stations.

The Mad Decent tour featuring Bonde Do Role, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Diplo, and the Magic Merch Man Lemon-Red will be rolling through LA this coming Friday August 11th at The Cooper Building. Glitterfish will be in attendance so come out, hang out with us and support some awesome Brazilian bands.

Click Here For Tickets

For audio samples, you can check out all these bands on Myspace

Also, check out the Mad Decent Tour Blog.

Come out and party with us!!!

Check out today’s posts over at Indiebopper.com

• Branded Lifestyles are the New Cool
• That guy from Entourage in Williamsburg

If you’re looking to mix up your brand identity you can buy a purse with my face on it over at CuriousJayne.com.

Not to say that this video isn’t really cool, but remember kids, you aren’t a real amateur filmmaking/comedy troupe until you’ve made a ridiculously labor-intensive stop motion video.

A few years go in film school my buddies and I made a little film called Divorce. It was about a young man tortured by his parents break up and convinced by Hollywood movies that they would reunite. It was mostly clips from classic divorce flicks like The Parent Trap and Die Hard. Since then I have been aware of a certain Die Hard nostalgia that bubbles just below the surface of my pier groups collective consciousness. I think it has something to do with cable network TBS’es endless repeats of the trilogy

Consider this the official Glitterfish celebration of Fox’s annoucement that the fourth installment of the Die Hard franchise, Live Free or Die Hard, will open over the 4th of July holiday weekend next year.

Star Wars is probably the most parodied and remixed footage of all time. One of the very first films I ever made was called “The Phantom Student.” I shot it in highschool after reading how easy it was to rotoscope your own lightsabers.

After a brief removal of all the Star Wars videos on YouTube, George Lucas has given his blessing to the youtubers. In Darth Smartass youtuber Doomblake hilariously reverses shots in the Darth Vader clamshell sequence of Empire Strikes Back to suggest that Vader is sarcastically closing the pod in the face of his subordinate.

Darth Chad is Darth Vader’s less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother. He is also the day manager of a grocery store. This is the first episode of the two that are out. Episode three is coming soon.

Finally, this one involves Matthew McConaughey.

Glitterfish is proud to present a new blog in the Glitterfish network: Indiebopper.com

Indiebopper is written by a fictional hipster girl who just graduated from college and plans to move to New York (Williamsburg, duh) as soon as she pays off her credit cards. Her favorite bands are Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, Stars, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, Wolf Parade, The Arcade Fire, BRMC, Postal Service, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse, and Fugazi. That list is of course just the tip of the iceburg. She used to like them but now her least favorite band is Bright Eyes.

She’s going to be posting pictures of hipster mom’s pushing kids in strollers, alerting you to indie rock featured in tv/commericals, and talking shit about ugly-britpop-english-bitches-named Lily Allen.

http://www.indiebopper.com

Here’s Bob Dylan’s 1965 music not video for Subterranean Homesick Blues. The clip will be followed by a brief history lesson courtesy of youtube commentators.

stealthisname67 (2 weeks ago)
Video wasn’t used in these days; back then these kinds of “videos” were called promos, and I don’t believe this was the first promo to be made, there are a few from bands like the Kinks.

I still love this video, it’s one of my favorite Dylan songs.

Baflar (2 weeks ago)
Very little video tape was available in 1965, but of course, the video medium was still available via film - so it is fair to call this a ‘video’. The term ‘promo’ came later, as in 1965 no-one had seriously considered promoting a single via a video. Not surprising really, as this was the first (I assure you, this status is widely accepted.) Earlier filmed performances certainly do exist; there’s a colour version of the Animals doing ‘House of the Rising Sun’, for example.

Some of you may remember the OK Go dance video for their single, “A Million Ways,” that was kicking around the internet last summer. Well, here it goes again.

I really liked the song, A Million Ways, from their first dance video. However, Here it Goes Again proves that OK Go is way better at coming up with new dance routines than writing new songs.