It should come as no surprise that recent Artist of the Week Luke Temple—who recorded his 2007 release, Snowbeast, entirely in his Brooklyn apartment—would invoke the words “cheap” and “creative” in his call for aspiring auteurs to craft music videos for his latest LP. (Given his do-it-yourself approach to music-making, one might assume he’d be all about home-growing his own music videos, too. But he’s a nice guy, and probably just doesn’t want to push his neighbor too far, especially after everything she put up with during his most recent living room recording sessions— though surely some New Yorkers would agree that you could certainly do worse than having a folky, angel-voiced singer-songwriter for a flatmate.)
In a contest recently extended an additional month (old deadline: November 15th; new deadline: December 15th), Temple is gathering submissions from cinematically inclined fans who have given one of Snowbeast’s twelve tracks their own visual spin. Entries can be submitted via e-mail (more details here)— but no mention of itemized receipts is made, so maybe you don’t actually have to be cheap (though, uh, why wouldn’t you want to?). Fulfillment of the second criterion—creativity—is probably less negotiable.
The winning entry will become the album’s first official music video and will be, according to Temple’s camp, “sent out to every major music website, blog and several indie music video television shows.” In addition to the requisite IMDB listing, the winning director will also receive a signed poster and two backstage passes to one of Temple’s live shows in the city of the winner’s choice. And don’t be discouraged that the cities from which that winner could chose are currently quite limited by the fact that Temple is only scheduled to play one show (in NYC) anytime in the next month—additional dates are in the works, and will likely be announced soon.
January
17 - New York, N.Y. @ Joe’s Pub
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Luke Temple on MySpace
Video contest details from Luke Temple on MySpace
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