Blog Posts by John Kordosh

  • Eddie Vedder, Framed

    When we heard that Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam's sensational singer, had a new video out, we told the team to slip that baby into Framed rotation right away. We're pretty heavy into cultural icons around here.

    But imagine our surprise when we found out that Eddie doesn't actually appear in the video! It turns out that it's a song from the new, Sean Penn-directed film, Into The Wild, for which Eddie wrote most of the songs, and even played most of the instruments himself. Well, we were a little chagrined, and we yelled at our new Sri Lankan crew (Llewellyn, Warren and Cindy) for not telling us this was really a movie video instead of a music video.  But we don't speak much Sri Lankan, and they don't speak much English, so there you go.

    With deadline looming, we've decided to go with it, since the excellent captions were already written. And we have read the book the movie is based on, and it was great, so maybe the movie is great, too.  In fact, we're sure it is.

    So please enjoy this

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  • Duran Duran, Framed

    Here at "Framed" we have a lot of fun with music videos, but this week we'd like to return to a simpler time.  Perhaps a happier and more naïve time.

    A time when Duran Duran was really popular.

    It all happened back in the 1980s, when the artform of music video was nascent.  MTV had started up and they were feeding not only rock music, but rock imagery, to the world's youth.  This had never happened before, and it would change everything.  Except for, you know, death and such.  But a lot of stuff, nonetheless.

    The darlings of MTV were a British quintet called Duran Duran, who were as photogenic as they were easy to take pictures of.  The Duranies' brand of danceable pop swept the world and their videos became the mainstays of MTV.  People talked about them everywhere, and their well-produced videos set a standard that exists today.

    So this week we'll look at one of their greatest videos--the one for their 1982 hit tune "Rio"--and salute these pioneers of a type of art we completely

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  • Velvet Revolver, Framed

    There aren't too many supergroups still around, but Velvet Revolver may well qualify. With roots in Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, VR's first LP, Contraband, was a certified hit. And now they've followed it up with Libertad, which is probably Spanish for "library." 

    The first single and video off the new disc is "She Builds Quick Machines," and this is one sweet video, readers.  It's a violence-strewn spaghetti western revolving around VR (cowboys all) rescuing an angel from a town inexplicably hostile to angels. The guys in VR are quite heroic in the video, much like I imagine they are in real life. I encourage you to watch it often.

    Naturally, our main interest here at "Framed" is how many goofy frames we can milk,er, excellent stills we can pull from this stirring adventure for suitable captioning.  It's a weekly challenge, but VR and vid director Dean Karr have thoughtfully given us images galore, something we hope other pop music acts will emulate.  And damned soon.

     

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