Ah snap, now Kayne's f'n with the compression artifacts too. This one's for “Welcome to Heartbreak,” and looks strikingly similar to that tripped-out Chairlift video from a week ago. It's cool and all, but did Kanye get scooped?

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1. New Kanye West Video - “Welcome To Heartbreak”
2. “WELCOME TO HEARTBREAK” DIRECTED BY NABIL
3. Chairlift’s Trippy “Evident Utensil” Video

Chairlift's music video for Evident Utensil looks like a tripped out, badly encoded walk through the countryside. It was made through a process called datamoshing, which more or less uses corrupted video artifacts and takes advantage of the poor little confused pixels as they try to make up for a handful of lost keyframes. I think. Either way it's weird, man.

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1. Chairlift “Evident Utensil” in HD
2. VidPik! Compression-wacky pop!
3. How It Works
4. Compression Artifact Art
5. Original MOV Version

MUSIC BUZZ: The new commercial for the 4th generation iPod Nano is out which also means the next big indie band is about to go mainstream. The song playing over all those pretty colors is “Bruises” by a group called Chairlift. By being featured in the commercial, they’ve received the Apple touch which grants one lucky, obscure band instant stardom. At this point, Apple has proven that every time an ipod is created, an indie band gets their wings.

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The Best Links:

1. Apple 4th-gen iPod nano ad
2. the official Chairlift web site
3. Brooklyn’s Chairlift
4. New iPod Nano - Featured on BuzzFeed