Transitions Exhibition Benefiting The Art of Elysium
This series of exotic butterflies illustrates nature’s innate beauty resulting from a caterpillar’s journey through metamorphosis. Seeing this process as a metaphor for human life, Bayer believes that...
View ArticleMaroon 5′s ‘Payphone’ Video: Go Behind The Scenes Now!
When it came time to think up a treatment for “Payphone,” the first single off Maroon 5′s upcoming Overexposed album, frontman Adam Levine knew exactly what he wanted … he also knew there would be...
View ArticleSpot On
Since 1984, commercials have been as much a part of the Super Bowl as the football game itself and sometimes better. But few of the millions of viewers realize that behind all the great ads are...
View ArticleMerkury 4 Ford GT Signature Series by Camilo
Commissioned by Sam Bayer, this is the 3rd design in a series of Ford GT projects that includes performance upgrades and graphic livery development from concept to delivery. Design direction by Camilo...
View ArticleMaroon 5′s ‘Payphone’ Video Features Bank Robbery, Car Chases and Explosions...
Don’t try this at home, kids. Maroon 5’s new music video for “Payphone” features frontman Adam Levine escaping a bank robbery, dodging bullets, stealing a car and running from police. “Payphone” is the...
View ArticleRolling Stone Readers Pick the Best Music Videos of All Time
3. Nirvana, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (1991) Samuel Bayer’s music video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was just as radical and widely imitated as Nirvana‘s song itself. The clip pretty much invented the...
View ArticleFive History-Making MTV Music Videos — New York Magazine
Nirvana“Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991) Seattle punks start a revolt, and snuff hair metal. Robin Sloane, Geffen Records Exec: Kurt Cobain was the only artist I’ve ever known who had brilliant,...
View ArticleInterview: Samuel Bayer, Director of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
I’ll be honest and say that when I first heard a music video director would be doing a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, one of the most beloved horror franchises of all time, I wasn’t too crazy...
View ArticleEminem’s Chrysler Super Bowl ad: Behind the Scenes of One of Sunday’s Best...
Chrysler’s “Imported From Detroit” ad has been called one of the best commercials of Super Bowl XLV. “It’s not like we set out to do a two-minute commercial with Eminem,” Melissa Garlick, head of...
View ArticleA Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy’s Not Dead Yet
Hunky, drowsy, brain-scrambled Dean (Kellan Lutz) walks, or sleepwalks, through the Springwood, Ohio, diner. And finds Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), the razor-fingered dream stalker. Back in his...
View ArticleChrysler’s ‘Born of Fire’ Wins Emmy for Best Commercial Third straight W+K...
Wieden + Kennedy has picked up its third straight Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial—this time for Chrysler’s “Born of Fire” Super Bowl spot starring Eminem. The two-minute spot was directed by...
View ArticleTest HTML CSS Styles
The purpose this is a link in the paragraph text of this page is to demo the current styles for this theme. Any html element that a client may put in the post needs to be considered and styled. There...
View ArticleSamuel Bayer: From Nirvana to ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
The director, a veteran of memorable music videos and commercials, makes his feature debut with a reboot of the Freddy Krueger slasher flick. ‘This was “Twilight” before “Twilight.” No matter how...
View ArticleStevie Wonder/ Bud Light Squeaks Past Jimmy Cliff/ Volkswagen for...
By Andrew Hampp, New York | February 04, 2013 12:23 AM EST Not surprisingly, Beyonce was the most-Tweeted artist of Super Bowl 47 by a mile. But the race for most-Tweeted music-related commercial was...
View ArticleSamuel Bayer Diptychs & Triptychs
EXHIBTION ON VIEW FROM MARCH 3, 2013 THROUGH APRIL 27, 2013 Depicting the human body has been among the primary preoccupations and achievements of artists for millennia. Drawing inspiration from...
View ArticleDirector Samuel Bayer Debuts Photography Exhibition at L.A. Gallery
Known for his music videos for the Strokes, Green Day and Nirvana, Bayer has penetrated the fine art world with “Diptychs & Triptychs,” on view at ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills through April 27....
View ArticleSamuel Bayer’s American Image
“I always used to say that, maybe I didn’t become successful as a painter, but my images were seen by lots and lots of people,” muses filmmaker Samuel Bayer over the phone. He is not exaggerating....
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