It dawned on me today that Antville has been around for almost a dozen years, which is practically ancient in for a web site. Here's the first ever post.

I had a conversation with a friend recently about the "best" year for music videos since I started following them more seriously (probably 2004 - 2011). I was thinking it would be a fun conversation starter for the Antville community: What was the golden year for videos during Antville's history?

That's an interesting question, off the top of my head I'd say probably around 2004-2006. Seems like there was still a healthy atmosphere of 90's era directors (Jonze, Gondry, Fincher, Romanek, Sigismondi) producing work alongside 2nd wave directors like Patrick Daughters, Jaron Albertin, Chris Milk, Martin De Thurah. It made for a good mix. Also a lot of those directors were active participants on antville at the time (either anonymously or not), which made things fun. Both of those generations have now abandoned music videos.

Youtube hadn't even happened yet, you had to find ".mov" links or you would be booed by Antvillers.

I started coming here about a half of that 12 years. :O

2008 was pretty neat for the awards.

Technically, though, I've been dead since the White Stripes stopped.

12 years... feels like 2 years...

whoa I started reading in 2005 when I was 14/15. Favorite era: obviously those first years reading angry comments, vids from Patrick Daughters, Albertin, Barney Clay. Basically all of this

I started reading in 2005 as well and became obsessed with Antville the following year.

I think that every year has been better than the previous one. I really LOVED 2013, it was such a trippy year (interactive videos, Death Grips awesome Government Plates video album, Oneohtrix Point Never amazing commissioning taste, etc.).

started posting 9 years ago. after a couple of weeks De Thurah's Human appeared out of the blue - and then there was no turning back. (i wonder if i'll ever have time to go look through it all...links needs some a-fixing in there) hard to classify the years - after all, it's just us getting older. what's different (and what's been the main blow to the 'ville itself) is that there's just so many videos so availably out there now. so that's a good thing - right? it's kindofa bittersweet pang to see this place is still haunted (and not simply shuttered), and nothing's really taken its place. dream on, 'ville.