30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie

For the clip to the song "A Beautiful Lie" the band 30 Seconds To Mars travelled to Greenland into the eternal ice (regrettably melting very fast nowadays).

         

erm... cerco: you may not have noticed, but your exceeding a quota & patience...

         

did they buy a return ticket or just one way?

         

er... so: fly (presumably) to greenland, fly around in a helicopter, play power-rock (very helpful), and make a video about melting ice caps while flying around big gennies and lights and everything else that goes with this kind of shoot. riiiiiight.

         

Videostatic entry on the shoot.

I've heard various rumors about this being a nightmare, overblown, overbudget production. Anyone got any good gossip on this?

I do enjoy the irony. At the same time, it really bugs me that Radiohead won't fly to the US to tour because of airplane emissions.

         

(if nuthing else: director wins for best name evar.)

re: the video - nice tuxen material, and clever enuf edit. surely, tho, if global warming was the theme, this sorrily fails it, looking all frozen & pristine & all. (this, f. ex., had me far more concerned.)

         

this is ego in film form.

         

I have a question. Videostatic says that Elliot Lester co-directed but the credits at the end of the video say that he was a second unit director - a credit that is listed right after the editor and just before the colorist. Elliot says that he was involved with this project for at least a month. (and the performance footage looks pretty adept for Angakok the Inuit video director). What's with that lame second unit credit? Makes it sound like he flew around in a helicopter for a couple of hours.

         

In most cases it bugs me that bands playing in fancy locations have somewhat no audience in front of them. I always ask myself: "Who are they playing to?".

Here, it's the same situation, but it doesn't bug me - I can't tell why.

         

As stupid as everything about this video is I still kind of like that it's an event. At least this one did away with the horrible plot attempts from that forbidden city video. And lmao at the slow motion match intro, what does that have to do with anything?

As for all the naysaying about the message (which is admittedly barely even conveyed and somewhat hypocritical) isn't it worse to be overwhelming cynical about the whole process? People had the same "carbon footprint" gripes about live earth, but at least these are attempts at raising awareness. And haven't all of these ego-stroking stunts paid off at least somewhat? Public awareness for global warming seems to be way up from even three years ago. Jared Leto is still a tool though.

         

"I do enjoy the irony. At the same time, it really bugs me that Radiohead won't fly to the US to tour because of airplane emissions."

They are playing North America quite a lot between now and August. That amphibious bio-diesel bus was a good investment.

         

Jared found his new alias in "Ghost Vision", a rather obscure novel by Jeanie Kortum: inuit boy Panipaq is an angakok, sc. a shaman.