So here is a video that I first saw because it was directed by Richard Ayoade (of the IT Crowd, and Jesse Thorn posted it of course). I don't know much about music videos, but I actually really liked this one a lot. You can watch it here:
Heads Will Roll by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I thought it was very artful. And what's more, there was excellent use of glitter. :) As we all know, good uses of glitter are few and far between, so I'm really pleased with the way the video uses confetti-type paper, glitter, etc. to evoke blood and guts without actually grossing people out with real blood and guts. :)
In case the video is taken down someday, I went to the trouble of taking a few screenshots of parts that I thought were kind of awesome and that also use glitter.
This makes me think - if glitter is meant to be cute and bright and fun, and they do a bang-up job of using it for something gross and unpleasant, perhaps I can utilize that structure in order to get some of that damn glitter into my own work. Hopefully as successfully and non-tacky as this video did.
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