Radiohead’s music video for “House of Crads” (the first sing from In Rainbows), is certainly unique. It’s filmed without any cameras at all. Employing various 3D plotting techniques (called ” Geometric Informatics” and “Velodyne LIDAR”) and digital manipulation, a team of technicians assembled the video from images of Thom Yorke and a neighborhood.

You can read a much more in depth analysis of how they made the video at this google code page: http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/. Google also hosts an impressively in-depth video about the “making of,” including behind-the-scenes takes of Yorke and an explanation of the technology from the director.

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The people at ill Doctrine (a hip-hop blog) mashed up the classic “Chocolate Rain” with the Radiohead b-side “Talk Show Host.” The results are strangely compelling. Even though “Chocolate Rain” basically just repeats itself over and over, it somehow still fits in with the groove of “Talk Show Host.”

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