I guess smoking is cool again? Tom Vek always has some of the best music videos and this one is as creative as it is odd. Featuring a diverse group of sex kittens and hipster-versions of Abercrombie models, Aroused by Tom Vek is a winner in my book.

Iverlicious’ video description is as follows,

“4AD and Jagjaguwar have collaborated on a live session that captures a truly unique Bon Iver performance, featuring Justin Vernon and Sean Carey. On recent tours fans will have become accustomed to seeing Vernon flanked by an eleven-piece band, with the swell in numbers lending a grandiose element to even his most delicate songs. Sidestepping expectations, the idea Vernon presented for this session was to provide a wildly different experience.

As on “Babys” and “Hinnom, TX”, Vernon’s trademark falsetto is positioned centre stage, framed by subtle and unexpected instrumental flourishes that render the performance simultaneously weighty and airless. It’s quite an achievement that songs so widely-known and loved in their recorded form are able gain in emotional impact, and stands as testament to Bon Iver’s singular talent.”

Live happily,
Hipster Collective

Mutiny bikes was smart (or dumb) enough to fasten a 7D to a remote control helicopter and shoot footage at the new Austin skatepark. The result is unique and really cool.

This video is actually a gorgeous lookbook for fashion designer Stephen Alan’s spring/summer collection from 2010. We’re a little late on getting to this one, but it’s such a beautiful piece of cinematography that time doesn’t really matter. Shot in the waning days of summer, the film features DJ/Actor/Film-Maker Matt Creed and the up and coming Canadian actress Liane Balaban as a young couple who finds that it is harder to “escape” in the country then they had thought. I wish more fashion labels would put this much love and life into their lookbooks.

Stuxnet is a highly complex computer virus that was discovered in July 2010 designed to target industrial software and equipment. It was found on computers at an Iranian nuclear test facility and was programmed to remain dormant until it made its way to the computers that control centrifuges that spin nuclear material. It had the ability to operate the centrifuges at will, all the while telling computers and workers that everything was fine. It has been called the first open source weapon completely made of code. It weighs only 1MB in binary, and required a specialized team of hackers at Microsoft to disarm.

This is a gorgeous video produced by Patrick Clair for Australian TV program HungryBeast on Australia’s ABC1. The information is highly interesting, but what makes this video incredible is the fact that the graphics are really beautiful, but not distracting or superfluous. They perfectly support the content and make it even more engaging.

This is a really nice video illustrating a lecture Sir Ken Robinson gave on the state of education. I didn’t plan on watching a 12 minute video on education, but the white-board animation is mesmerizing, and I believe, totally real.

If you’re looking for ideas for dinner this weekend, check out this gorgeous video by a guy named William Hereford who shows us that dinner can be so much more appetizing if you put a little production value into it. Every frame of this video looks like a glamour shot from a gourmet magazine, and you forget that you’re watching a cooking show. The french music helps get into the right mood, too.

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This is the video for Josh Ritter’s song, The Curse from his latest album, So Runs the World Away. It’s a great song with a great story, and the visual representation just makes it that much more beautiful. I never really understood the last line of the song until this video, but now it’s my favorite line. For best results, watch it in 720p.