Earlier today, kottke.org linked to a neat music v...

Earlier today, kottke.org linked to a neat music video from Chairlift that uses image compression artifacts for artistic purposes. A few hours later, Pitchfork posted the new Kanye video for “Welcome to Heartbreak” that uses pretty much the exact same effect. A music video trend? Or did the same shop create both?

Update: Thanks to flea’s comment, I checked out Kanye’s blog post about the video where he explains that they released the video early because of the Chairlift video. Perhaps the Kottke effect tipped Kanye’s hand?

Submitted by crazymonk on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 5:00am.

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kanye sez:
"This is the video we've been working on for the last month. We know there is another video out there using the same technique so we were forced to drop it now."

http://perezhilton.com/2009-02-17-new-kanye-9

flea | Tue, 02/17/2009 - 7:12pm