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Madonna Re:Vision
Madonna Re:Vision is a collaborative work in progress between writer Neil Feineman, Art Director Bill Douglas and producer Steve Reiss to create the definitive art book about uber entertainer Madonna as a music video artist and entrepreneur and how she used the medium of the music video to re-invent herself through more than twenty albums and over twenty years of performing. This book is currently in development.
30 Frames Per Second: The Visionary Art of the Music Video
By Steve Reiss and Neil Feineman
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams,
Released: 2000 Buy this Book on Amazon.com
Referencing hundreds of video grabs, utilizing over eighty fonts, requiring countless artist approvals and a complex system of asset management, Thirty Frames per Second celebrates the art of the music video by capturing the energy of video in print. -Tolleson Design
Music videos have radically changed the way we look at the world. Instantly accessible on a global scale, these revolutionary videos have reflected and influenced popular culture, fashion, sports, advertising, art, cinema, television, and new media-as well as music itself.
Thirty Frames Per Second is the first book to showcase the artistic vision of the music video director. What began two decades ago as little more than a marketing tool showing a band's stage performance has now become a director's medium of expression and experimentation. Spike Jonze, Peter Care, Kevin Kerslake, Mark Romanek, and David Fincher are among the 55 top directors featured-many of whom have come from backgrounds in film, advertising, photography, fine art, or architecture, and some of whom have gone on to make feature films. Nearly 400 stills, culled from the most compelling and influential videos, make this visually stimulating survey of the genre a powerful testament to a brashly innovative contemporary art form.
Mark Romanek: Music Video Stills
200 pages - over 175 color plates. Published by Arena Editions. Buy This Book on Amazon.com
With the arrival of music television in the early 1980s, video has become perhaps the most pervasive and influential medium of our time. within this medium, mark romanek has established himself as one of the most innovative video artists working today. stills from his videos comprise this beautifully printed volume which is a veritable frame-by-frame mid-career retrospective of this prolific artist's career. this book is the first devoted to romanek's art. using new technology to capture high quality stills from video, this book is a stunning collection of 175 images from some of the most acclaimed videos ever produced.
The televised trail of mark romanek is distinguished by a visual sophistication that challenged popular taste at a moment ripe for blurring the lines between art, fashion, and the music video. the conceit of re-presenting his work as stills in an art book is inevitable and welcome, loading his imagery with due photographic significance... romanek allows his images the dramatic full-page moments they always were-and weren't.
- Mark Jacobs - Paper Magazine
A + R
Worked with Writer Neil Feineman, former Music Executive Jeff Anderson and Canadian Art Director Bill Douglas to develop a new program for marketing Bands worldwide. This concept included an online and print publication, a web component, merchandise and social network. a + r launched early in 2007 on myspace and continued with its own website and print journal with the inaugural band being Sigur Ros.
vpix Images
Vpix images is a publishing, promotional and merchandising company specializing in showcasing the art of the music video in new and exciting ways. From Limited Edition Fine Art Prints to promotional material tie-ins for album and music video releases, to merchandise for specialty, museum, book and music stores, vpix images is finding new markets for images only previously seen moving at 30 frames per second on a television screen. Building its foundation on the UpRez™ technology of super enhanced video frame grabs, vpix images brings to life images that are of the highest quality and visual style.
Art of the Music Video
Art of the Music Video: a presentation to the Guggenheim Museum, MOMA and the Experience Music Project in Seattle to house and display the worlds largest music video archive. Prepared with award winning design studio Imaginary Forces, the MVA was loosely based on the book Thirty Frames per Second: the Visionary Art of the Music Video and would create a permanent visual display of the most important music films of our time and through history.