Friday's can sometimes be the doldrums at work. If you work in an office, you're probably sneaking in some Reddit or Youtube time (or your personal favorite time waster) in between spreadsheets and .psd's. Heck, maybe you work retail and have to do all of that on your mobile device. Maybe you're actually getting work done (bless you, hard worker). We're gonna focus on the lazy ones, though. Here are three local videos for your watching pleasure.
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Every once in a while, we like to skim through our Vimeo, Youtube and email archives to find some fun, Denton-related videos to share with you. Today, we usually have three, but there was so much this week, that we're opening up the floodgates and letting a fourth one creep on i n. Midlake's recent video for "Aurura Gone" (directed by Jason Lee), a look into the future with Denton 2030, a look into life at The Dime Store from the people over at Square 205, and the winner for Denton ISD's recent "be safe on the square" contest. Grab some bad coffee while you're counting down the hours at work and take a little video break. Studies show that it'll improve your productivity or something.
Midlake took a run around town and made a video of it to their song "Aurora Gone" from their latest album Antiphon. Jason Lee of Mallrats and My Name is Earl fame directs. We love how much these fellas champion Denton. What do y'all think of their latest video?
Despite our best efforts to make people hate Denton, people keep moving here. In order to keep up with the growth and keep our city structure in tact through that growth it is best to have a plan in place. That's why Denton 2030 was enacted a while back. To make sure that Denton doesn't get all Frisco (god forbid) on us or something. What do you want to see happen over the next 15 years?
We've seen y'all parkouring around the courthouse. That stuff ain't safe, dudes! That said, in spite of WDDI's constant helmet wearing, even we haven't been without a few accidents and what not in the last couple of years when driving around Denton. Luckily people think it's pretty hip to stay safe and the city is making a dedicated effort to make downtown Denton a safe area. They've already banned the use of cell phones while driving and there's talk about other changes to be made in the future. They recently sponsored a contest through the Audio Video Productions class at Denton ISD's Advanced Technology Complex. The winning video from the contest is displayed above.
The branding (and beer loving) buddies over at Square 205 have a new project on their hands. They're producing a series of videos under the name Project Denton that highlight different entrepreneurial efforts in Denton, and they've selected a lot of our favorites. Above is the video highlighting our friends Shelley Christner and Rachel Aughtry at The Dime Store, but on their site you can also find videos of Zera Coffee and Redwood Studios. They're all quality videos and we suggest you check 'em all out. We turned our threesome into a foursome just because they exist.
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Ron English's closing Reception is tonight at 5PM at UNT On The Square. Get ready for it by watching this strange interview with him and Chris Brown.
Last week we saw a 24 hour poll we're calling "Kevin's Will He, Won't He?". Even though he decided against the Mayor's race this go-round, we're left with his thought provoking video blurb that framed the race in a way it hasn't been yet.
Since we've been gorging ourselves on local roaster's coffee we figured we'd offer up this throw back WDDI video we did on Clay Rozell and his Bookish roasting process.
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Dudes, it's Friday again. This sure seemed like a long week for one that started off on a holiday. Oh well, the weekend is here and 5pm is only eight and a half hours away. You can do it. We can help. Below are three WDDI hand-picked videos for your viewing amusement. We've got Midlake's new video for "The Old & the Young," a video from Denton's first Help-Portrait the other week, and some sort of weird mood setting video for this year's "Denton Mafia" thingamajig that we had not heard of until this year (but are now extremely excited about).
We love this new video for Midlake's new single, "The Old and The Young," from their new(ish) album, Antiphon.
Above is the Behind the Scenes video from January 11th's Help-Portrait: Denton. The next event will be held December 6th, 2014, but you can follow along and find out how you can help by following them on their Facebook page. The video was shot and edited by the always awesome Ryan Polly. You can check out more of his work on his website.
We're still not exactly sure what Mafia 2014 is, but we loved watching this video featuring parts of Denton as a scenic backdrop and we now know that if we happen to see people dressed in mafia regalia between January 27th - February 1st, that we shouldn't freak out. That's about it. You can find out more at this website.
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It's Friday y'all. We stayed up way past our bedtimes and poured one out for the time capsule last night - so this morning we're nursing plenty of coffee and avoiding work by watching short but satisfying videos. We're especially fans of this one by local dude Wesley Kirk, who's work just doesn't disappoint. We certainly don't mind that it features one of our favorite funny guys Ron Lechler. We love seeing our favorite creatives come together and create great work that gets us through our Friday. Besides - who doesn't love a great water gun fight scene?
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We're more ready for the weekend on this drizzly Friday morning. Maybe its because we started our weekend a little early at the Paul Slavens Anniversary Show at Dan's last night. While we don't regret that, we certainly are in need of some coffee and softer tunes this morning.
Luckily our friend Eric Edwards AKA Fishboy just sent us this video of Zedidiah Word covering that ages old Damien Jurado tune, Denton, TX, to help liven our morning. The video is simple, but wonderful. It kind of reminds us of that moment when the kid filmed the video of the grocery bag whipping in the wind in American Beauty, but less annoying in retrospect.
Anyway, we're glad to have this to ease into our weekend.
What are you up to this weekend? Keep us posted by tagging your tweets and 'grams with #WDDI and your pics may show up on a post next Monday.