The Shins' track from 2013's Heartworms, with footage from The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey, Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of, the US Navy archives, and some sci-fi / fantasy movies from the '70s including War-Gods of the Deep, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, Warlords of Atlantis and Madame Sin.

In high school, my friend Laura's sister, Emily was in a great band called Thee Autobots. Everybody I hung out with thought that was pretty neat here in Huntsville, Alabama. My boyfriend still listens to their records often. He had a track on, a couple weeks ago and it made me think about Sherlock Hound, and marvel anew that we had a great band like Thee Autobots here in the '90s. You can get their tracks from Bandcamp, here: https://theeautobots.bandcamp.com/album/discography-1995-1996 #theeautobots #sherlockhound #meitanteiholmes #animemusicvideo

Mink Stole, Divine, and Edith Massey figure prominently in a ramshackle edit of one of my recent faves. I love the chaos of John Waters' Multiple Maniacs. A $5,000 budget in 1981 is worth $43,035.05, today. Make of that what you will.

I decided to think more about cultural infatuation, rather than personal infatuation, in the context of the way we continue to fixate on Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe. By pairing them in this video, I don't mean to imply that they had any type of relationship, as it is known they did not. I am using footage of both Elvis, and Marilyn together to emphasize the aspect of our culture that elevates celebrity to this type of status. So this edit can be more of a meditation on that, rather than a devotional video about a star. Get Infatuation by SG Lewis and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: QqoawZj98Wx https://t.lickd.co/wgPWk67rKPD

A dedication to Christopher Reeve as my generation's Superman, with Margot Kidder as his incredible Lois Lane. When it comes to Superman, you really can't do better than Christopher Reeve, or Henry Cavill. I feel lucky to have witnessed the two greats during my lifetime. Find BetaBlock3r's official music and videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@BetaBlock3r This video features 'City Ambiance (Kansas City)' by knufds -- https://freesound.org/s/345950/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

François Reichenbach and a trove of portraits from the early 20th century are the video track to this unofficial Kylie Minogue edit, from her album Tension. Though this year has been a horror, I am choosing to celebrate the fact that we've been through times of adversity before, and we made it through, with love. I don't care if I see the results of my efforts, as long as I can know there's a point in trying.

If it weren't for Funeral Parade of roses, we would have very little video insight into queer culture in 1960s Japan. I've also heard that it was one of Stanley Kubrick's favorite films, and that he drew visual inspiration from it for A Clockwork Orange. The first time I watched it, I thought about this Boy Harsher track and thought It'd be fun to pair them.

My first video completely free of Adobe software. I challenged myself to make the same kind of edit as before, without compromises, and without using any Adobe products. I am ending my Adobe subscription this month. The replacement was DaVinci Resolve, which turned out to be much more capable than what I was used to in ways I can tell I will only continue to grow into. I will continue to use it, predominantly from now on. The sense of freedom I feel from this, creatively and financially cannot be fully expressed.

I really enjoyed editing Funeral Parade of Roses to a Boy Harsher track a couple years ago, so I've been thinking about doing another Boy Harsher track with another Japanese classic. When I got this pairing in my mind, I kept thinking of it, to and from work every day. So I finally just cut it together.