comment #1

thorsen1nk says ...

Michael Bay is a hack. This guy is a genius. I spent 7 amazing months partying my ass off in London in the 1990s and this is exactly how I remember it, Daft Punk and all.

comment #2

thorsen1nk says ...

"solely at conventional tourist sites"? Um, wrong. There's some side street action in there as well, and some underground sequences.

Another thing to remember is the center of london is called the *center* for a reason--thousand of thousand of people work at regular legitimate jobs that don't cater to the too-stupid-to-speak-a-foreign-language Texas tourists. I worked near soho and it's where ton of native Londoner go hang at the pub every night.

comment #3

Abbey Normal says ...

Agreed. Your Bay slight is uncalled for...this is more like a Danny Boyle-type trip.

comment #4

BurmaShave says ...

thorsen1nk, why exactly would someone need to speak a foreign language in London?

comment #5

Circumvrent says ...

That Guiness slurper... didn't anybody ever tell him all the cool kids drink Miller Chill?

comment #6

Sabina E says ...

That is such a sweet ass video. and dude! you insulted him by comparing him to Michael Bay.

comment #7

Josh Massey says ...

If only it had starred Kip Pardue.

comment #8

Chinaski says ...

BurmaShave : You haven't been to London recently, have you?

comment #9

AndrewOwens says ...

Very reminiscent of Jonas Akerlund's Ray of Light video for Madonna.

comment #10

tommysunshine says ...

The music is by Daft Punk. The video was made by a dafter punk.
London has a soaraway arts scene. But it is a city whose increasingly crowded nature cramps its charm. The lovely natives are becoming restless. Last time I was there some of them reminded me of that senile douchebag P.Vice

comment #11

actionman says ...

definitely more Boyle than Bay

very cool stuff

comment #12

Ryansi51 says ...

Cool.

Wish he wouldve slowed down a bit in parts and allowed for some differentiation. oh and not looped the same guinness pint over and over and over and over.

try drinking more than one.

comment #13

bmcintire says ...

It reminds me a bit of Koyaanisqatsi and Powwaqatsi, except with the droning ambience of Philip Glass exchanged for the stuttering techno of Daft Punk. And that is not necesarily a bad thing.

comment #14

thorsen1nk says ...

"thorsen1nk, why exactly would someone need to speak a foreign language in London?"

My point was that the most annoying tourists you see in London are fat Americans from the south who are too dumb/xenophobic to try an country where they "Don't speak no English."

However, Chinaski is right that London is one of the most polygot cities in the world, along with New York.

The song is the live version of "Bigger, Faster, Stronger" by Paris-based tech-house duo Daft Punk.

comment #15

MAGGA says ...

Did not like the video, but Daft Punk are one of the best and most influential groups of my lifetime and as rubbish as this decade has been for cinema, the post-Daft music scene has made it a mad era for clubbing. So props for using that song.. like 45% of short clips featuring big cities

comment #16

BurmaShave says ...

thorsen, chinaski, it was a silly time for fat ignoramus america bashing, that's all. And yes, I was there Spring 2007.

comment #17

T. Holly says ...

Wouldn't you like to know it's made up of photographs?

http://www.mcnblogs.com/mcindie/archives/2008/11/look_london_har.html#comments

comment #18

T. Holly says ...

Bonus. Ray also says there that, "Danny Boyle used a digital SLR for the helicopter shots in Slumdog Millionaire; more about that later."

comment #19

Karsten says ...

Yay, I beat Wells to the punch with a whole day! And I totally disagree with those Bay comments. Totally uncalled for. As I write here, http://subtitlestocinema.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/london/, this video really captured the feel of that London I've gotten to know and love over the years. Brilliant work.

And the guy who made it, David Hubert, actually works as an animator at DreamWorks.