dougklinger

IMVDb Staff

It’s rare that a story about a dude murdering people and putting the in the back of his car will make you laugh, but that is exactly what happens in "Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster" by Thee Oh Sees, directed by John Strong. The video has the feeling of a short film,… Read More

Good times come in the form of bike rides and barnyards in "Talking Dreams" by Echosmith, directed by Clea DuVall. The video is full of warm colors and summertime vibes – there is even a lemonade stand. In their last video, Echosmith lead singer Sydney Sierota sung about her desire to… Read More

Usually, by the time people arrive at the airport, their destination is pretty much set in stone. Heineken put their willingness to drop everything to the test however with something called Departure Roulette. They set up a giant green board at JFK airport and asked departing travelers to change their… Read More

Last year, as part of Bombay Sapphire's Imagination Series, Oscar winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher wrote a script with only dialogue and asked people to fill in the rest. They had the freedom to choose the setting, characters, time period, and genre, even the filmmaking technique, but they had to use… Read More

2013 has been a great year so far for Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman, also known as BRTHR. Each of their five videos released this year has been more complex and ambitious than the one before it, and each has served as a way to further their aesthetic as directors.… Read More

Juicy J continues his run of strip club-themed hits with the Benny Boom directed "Bounce It," featuring Wale and Trey Songz. The Academy Award Winner/guy behind "Bands That Make Her Dance" has been making an impact on the hip-hop industry and the gentleman’s entertainment industry since the mid-90s with Three-6… Read More

Alright, bring it in team, take a knee. We want to start by thanking all of the music videos that came out this week for giving us their full effort. It was a really popular week for music videos, with all 10 of the most popular videos registering over half… Read More

"Silent Treatment" by Welsh alternative rock band The Joy Formidable is an intensely personal song, and the band have released an equally personal video for the song, directed by ArchEnemies. The black and white video features one person - vocalist/guitarist Ritzy Bryan - performing for the camera in front of… Read More

Broward county’s own Ace Hood lets everybody know that he’s outchae in “We Outchea,” featuring Lil Wayne and directed by Colin Tilley. The gritty video shows Ace, Wayne, Birdman, DJ Khaled, and a bunch of other badass looking people in what appears to be the streets of South Florida. The… Read More

Mr. Killums - El-P’s drug, sex, and violence addicted squirrel puppet - has a very storied music video history. We’ve been fans of Killums since he appeared in two of our favorite videos from last year, El-P’s "The Full Retard" and "Stay Down," so we were super excited when we… Read More

2013 MTV Video Music Award Nominees

Posted by Doug Klinger on July 17, 2013 in News

MTV announced the nominees for the 2013 Video Music Awards today, and while we’re not sure if Eric Andre is going to be the host, we are sure that below you will find a list of all of the nominated videos. However, since music videos are best when watched and… Read More

In addition to making full-length music videos, last month’s OMG! Cameras Everywhere NYC camp produced several other video projects, and today they released some of those videos. Below you’ll find two scavenger hunt videos made by the campers, and below those you’ll find a link to learn more about the… Read More

At the end of last year, Earl Sweatshirt released the Hiro Murai directed "Chum," a dark and introspective video that was easily one of the best hip-hop videos of 2012. Earl and Hiro’s latest collaboration, "Hive," has a similar dark tone and features Earl surrounded by several monsters wearing Vans… Read More

For the video “I Dream in Neon” by Dirty Beaches, director Michael Lawrence traveled to Germany to collaborate with Alex Zhang Hungtai (aka Dirty Beaches) on the project. The dark and partially autobiographical video features Alex as a the main character, highlighting what Michael describes as him putting “everything” into… Read More

There are lots of singing shows out there, you guys. So many, in fact, that it’s pretty difficult to keep track of all the winners, let along all the finalists. However, the girls in X-Factor finalists Fifth Harmony seem to have enough talent and personality to break out of the… Read More

When trying to come up with an idea for a music video, if there is an image that you can’t get out of your head, it’s best to go with it. Director Ben Fee couldn’t get the idea of flesh out of his head when coming up with the concept… Read More

Another week of music videos in the books, great job all around, gang. We want to start by congratulating Ellie Goulding and director Mike Sharpe for their video “Burn” holding on to the number one spot this week, with Britney Spears and Marc Klasfeld’s “Ohh La La” giving them a… Read More

There have been plenty of songs and music videos about relationship troubles. However, not many of those videos take the approach that Ellis Bahl took for the video for "The War" by Josh Record, where the troubles are reflected not only in Josh’s performance, but in the atmosphere and actions… Read More

Last month, a bunch of music video directors got together with a bunch of kids from The Bronx to work together for a week on a bunch of awesome video projects - mainly music videos. It’s called OMG! Cameras Everywhere, and we’re pretty sure you’ve heard of it already because… Read More

The Benny Boom directed video for "V.S.O.P." by K. Michelle is a classic example of the relationship video. It features K. Michelle looking fly in a variety of cool outfits, from low cut tops to high-wasted pants, and co-stars a dude who’s so handsome that it’s intimidating. The video highlights… Read More

The leaked version of Kanye West’s “Black Skinhead” music video, which was spread around the internet pretty freely yesterday, is apparently not the official version. “The BLKKK SKKKN HD video that leaked yesterday was not the official version,” Kanye tweeted. That’s pretty much as definitive as Kanye gets. And, since… Read More

Director Ian Perlman takes an extremely personal approach to the stock-footage music video. Rather than downloading a bunch of footage from web archives, Ian used old footage of his own family in the video for "Together/Never" by Oberhofer. Pulling footage from two VHS tapes shot by his grandfather, Ian is… Read More

Before there was DVR, if someone wanted to save something from TV, they would have to get some blank VHS tapes and record it with their VCR (usually with the red audio cable left out because most old TVs didn't have the input for it). Often times, they’d be taping… Read More

Eelier this week, when Hannah Lux Davis released her music video for “I’m Out” by Ciara and Nicki Minaj, we predicted that the GIF making members of the internet would enjoy the inspiration that this video provided. A few days later, and our theory was proven correct. So correct, in… Read More

It was a holiday week here in the states, with most Americans spending the past few days combining alcohol, children, and explosives together into a blinding, deafening display of independence. However, as we all know, music videos don’t take holidays, ever. The top two videos from this week (Ciara’s “I’m… Read More