Thanks to Beth over at IAMSOUND for turn­ing me on to this music video by NewVil­lager. The guys in NewVil­lager, Ben Brom­ley and Ross Simonini, see them­selves as a multi-media group, and pro­duce not only music, but draw­ings, ani­ma­tions, per­for­mances, films, lec­tures, and also write. While the video was directed by Ben Dick­in­son (who has directed ...

This video from Ryan Mauskopf sat in my inbox for too long. I finally watched it the other day and smiled the whole way through. The con­cept is sim­ple, but the char­ac­ters and music are so delight­ful and work so well together. I couldn’t stop watch­ing the spirit quest jour­ney– a build­ing up to some­thing ...

Last night I went to check out the show Venn Dia­gram at the Pent House Gallery at the Copy Cat build­ing in Bal­ti­more. I’m still work­ing on get­ting the images (and a video) together for the post (look for it on Mon­day), but I thought I’d show ani­ma­tions I really enjoyed from the show. Jor­dan ...

There is so much good stuff on Niky Roehreke’s web­site that it’s hard to pick what to fea­ture on Brown Paper Bag. Niky is very tal­ented and lends her skills to a myr­iad of projects. This includes ani­ma­tion, draw­ing, paint­ing, illus­tra­tions, and design. Although she uti­lizes the com­puter for a lot of her work, Niky always ...

Remem­ber when I wrote about the video WORDS? It was pro­duced by Everynone, and the video was a beau­ti­ful and smart way to demon­strate the myr­iad of mean­ings one word can have. Well, Everynone has fol­lowed up with WORDS, cre­at­ing Re:WORDS. Same con­cept, but pro­duced with clips exclu­sively from Youtube. The depths of Youtube always go ...

Happy Fri­day, all! I stum­bled upon the fol­low­ing stop-motion ani­ma­tion by Jesse Brown and Chris­t­ian Hansen. It’s a music video for Grieves and Budo, a Brook­lyn based hip-hop duo. Grieves lays down the vocals while Budo mixes the beats. Hav­ing a brother with a strong inter­est in inde­pen­dent hip hop has given me an affin­ity towards ...

Bren­dan Cass is a painter. His work is full of expres­sion, and through his strokes, splat­ters, and drips, you get the over­whelm­ing sense of freedom. It’s no secret that Brendan’s inspi­ra­tion comes from land­scapes and travel. Sweep­ing hills, quaint towns, and nat­ural beauty is present in his work, as he presents an idyl­lic scene. Bren­dan ...

I spend a major­ity of my day lis­ten­ing to NPR. From what I can tell, most artists do the same or lis­ten to pod­casts — there’s only so much music you can stom­ach through­out the day. And, fur­ther­more, you brain feels bet­ter from learn­ing some­thing new. What I like about Everynone is that their videos are ...

For this edi­tion of Thursday’s Round Up, I wanted to share a few videos that I enjoy. They vary from music video to ani­ma­tion to stop motion, and are all pretty mesmerizing. Blu’s video, Big Bang Big Boom is the story of of evo­lu­tion and its con­se­quences. The logis­tics and plan­ning to make this short ...

I first wrote about Saelee Oh in May. Her work is a com­bi­na­tion of cut-paper, draw­ings, and paint­ings. She’s ven­tured into ani­ma­tion teamed up with Eric Naka­mura of Giant Robot fame to cre­ate an instal­la­tion piece for a tour­ing Scion Art show this year. From the Scion ART Vimeo: Eric Naka­mura and Saelee Oh col­lab­o­rate for ...