Radical Friends Live Installation
Spy Films interactive duo Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian a.k.a Radical Friend have just recently completed their first live installation piece at the Creators Project in New York.
The Creators Project Events series began this June in New York City with a series collection of curated artworks which will move across London, Sao Paulo, and Seoul, and culminates in Beijing with a huge 3-day Creators exposition in September.
View Radical Friend’s REEL HERE
Wired Director Love
Wired shows deep love for Spy Films’ directors.
“After being blown away by Nuit Blanche, a visually impressive short by director Arev Manoukian, Wired.com checked out some of the other work coming from Spy talent. Spy Films is a Canadian production house known for delivering eye-popping imagery.”
“We represent directors who have a strong eye for storytelling and a wizard-like approach to their work.”
See Wired Article HERE
the Golden Globes Spin the Grammy’s
Yes, I know… super wordy incoherent title.. but, it’s all BIG NEWS!
Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 has been nominated for a Golden Globe – Best Original Screenplay.
Spin Magazine hailed Radical Friends‘ Yeasayer video as one of ‘the TOP 20 Best Videos of 2009‘.
Ben Steiger Levine’s music video for Montreal-based band Beast, has been nominated for a Grammy.
CONGRATS TO ALL!!
Radical Friend goes 360 for Yeasayer
Spy directing duo Radical Friend come together with indie-rock band, Yeasayer.
Shot over the course of five days in the Californian desert and LA film studios… Radical Friend directed a two-part music video. The first was an interactive teaser, produced here at Spy Digital. And the second, an epic psychedelic video co-produced with our friends at Daft Arts.
Radical Friend wanted the interactive and live action video to have an other-worldly experience. That said, the 360 teaser was brought to life as a portal into the Yeasayer universe. The interactive teaser was released several days earlier via http://www.amblingalp.com . The interactive piece gained viral momentum… from antville to other various music-related blogs. Speculation was made and questions were asked. The music community was buzzing.
The live-action piece was released on Nov. 20th. Shots magazine featured Radical Friend and had this to say: “A barren landscape, naked bodies and the volcanic crater suited the themes of psychedelic and experimental rock that correspond with the band. Already on the radar as web-friendly and innovative directors, the duo sparked attention with their rock-smashing website early last year. This is not the Los Angeles- based directors’ first adventure into the interactive world for a band: they created an interactive music video for Black Moth Super Rainbow’s single Dark Bubbles earlier this year.”
Since the release, the video has been widely acclaimed as ‘insanely awesome’. Top-notch music blog communities like stereogum and musicslut have been ranting and raving, calling the video ‘the most surreal music video of the year’.
View interactive teaser HERE
View live action vid HERE
View Radical Friend REEL HERE
The Interactive Music Video
The state of the music industry has changed dramatically over the past five years.
The digital world has paved a new road, a road that is no longer one way. With the rise of the Internet, artists have found alternative means to showcasing their works. New technologies have enabled new and exciting forms of experience.
The interactive music video first gained mass attention with Arcade Fire’s ‘beoNlineB’ project, directed by Spy’s own Vincent Morisset. In the most recent issue of Shots magazine; “Morisset can be reasonably described as the godfather of this burgeoning scene.”
Earlier this month in the Montreal Gazette, alongside Madonna and Michael Jackson, Vincent Morisset’s ‘beoNlineB‘ was noted as one of the top six milestone videos in the history of the twenty-five year-old medium.
Other innovative, web-friendly directors have also received the attention of the digital masses. Spy’s directing duo Radical Friend, hit the radar in early 2008 with their own interactive “rock-smashing” site.
Several months later Radical Friend garnered the attention of upcoming indie rock-band ‘Black Moth Super Rainbow’. Wired magazine attributed the success of the video in Radical Friends’ words: “It’s essentially the same technology used in video installations where insane programs like MAX/MSP Jitter are required. However, in these tests it was accomplished using just Flash and a webcam, so anyone with a newer Mac laptop could potentially be involved.”
Shots magazine also made mention of the young directing duo and had this to say: “The rawness of this technology means its not easy to master, but as RF says ‘It’s a living thing that’s different every time.’ You have to learn it.”
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