VTV STRONGER VIDEO REMIX

So my new thing is to do what the rappers do in the underground hip-hop community but with video, hence the video mixtape. If you watch a lot of my videos you might notice that I kinda recycle a lot of themes, ideas, and footage. I recently was inspired by the new Kanye West song "Stronger" and decided to do a remix of the video. Actually the song itself isn't what originally got me interested in doing this. It was a Z100 interview with Kanye on the day after the VMA's this year. If you go to the stations site you can download the entire interview. He said a lot of things in his exchange with the DJ that struck chords with me. I then got hyped on his new track and saw the video. The original video was cool, but it kinda left me feeling like there was something left untapped. I wanted to see more outrageous images. If you watch the original video that was played on MTV it really doesn't make any sense. Just random shots of what look like maybe Japanese military figures and a really cool graphic of an explosion and a bunch of cool shots of Kanye that looked like they are ripped off from a Bjork or LCD Soundsystem video, and of course lots of Kanye dancing in those white glasses. It's obvious to me that the editor of this video was told to take out all the shots that might not pass censors and so you get what you get. Which is all a bunch of shit anyway because MTV probably only played the video like 5 times. Whatever, so, I looked up the lyrics for the song and downloaded a Chamillionaire mixtape version of the song and decided to throw in some footage from Cham's Hip Hop Police video. Then I went back an threw a bunch of other shit into the blender and let it rip. You'll catch Buckethead playing the Halloween theme song, a chuckle from Huey Long, lot's of anti-illuminati images and I also used footage from a post WWII Italian neo-realist film by Roberto Rossellini called "Rome: Open City" which is one of my all time favorites, I did the subtitles myself, I don't really speak Italian, so I'm curious to see what someone who speaks the language thinks, anyway, that's it for the director's commentary, now on with the show...