Arran and I went to the UK Music Video Awards last night with Steve Barron and his son Ollie, who was producer on our last video (which we apparently aren’t allowed to show you yet). Steve, who is a music video legend, was invited to present the award for best director. The award was given to Nima Nourizadeh who once directed a video where he paid homage to Steve’s Money For Nothing video. Here’s the original and here’s Nima’s. If you want to see more winners you can check out the site. All of the videos were fantastic except for the people’s choice which, as always, was a shit choice.

Adam Buxton hosted the evening and had us all in fucking hysterics. He’s a funny chap -Adam was in a channel 4 comedy with Cara last year called Ladies and Gentlemen from the writers of Peepshow. Didn’t end up getting picked up as a series because the humour was for smart people. I personally think it would’ve been a hit if they ended the show with someone getting voted off but instead they ended the episode with a hanging -which, don’t get me wrong, is hilarious but it wasn’t a decision that was voted on by the other housemates or phoned in by the viewers at home…so…-

Grant White from Minivegas was there last night. He’s a great guy. We did some concept designs for their brilliant bol commercial (you also have to check out their AIDS awareness project). Grant grabbed me at one point and said “Dude, come quick i want to introduce you to someone! Corran this is Corin!” I can see why he was exited. When do you ever get to say that? Corin had a plastic fish in his breast pocket. I congratulated him on his “best visual effects in a video” award. It’s an amazing video.

There isn’t the money to make videos like there used to be. In order to make one now it has to be favours and mates-rates and lots of dedication (sleepless nights). Even Bjork’s video for Wanderlust (which won video of the year) took over 100 volunteers working for months to make it for very little money. Amazingly people still manage to pull off beautiful, well planned works of art. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens in this industry in the years to come. Record companies and management are going to have to start forking out cash soon. They’re taking more than they’re giving and at one point it’ll bite them in the ass. We think there must be a way for them to make more money from videos these days but it’s gonna cost money to make money.

Hey listen if you want to see Steve’s film Choking Man you can catch it at the BFI.
And if you want to see the video we did for AGT’s new single you just have to wait a little longer until Apple i-tunes says we’re allowed… It must be a credit crunch thang.

Bet you’re wondering what we did to celebrate London fashion week (besides fasting). We shot a video for our friend Kerry Nixon who is the Nixon of Vidler and Nixon -Coincidence? I think not- They just happen to be experts in classiness!

You might recognize the babe in the video. None other than Cara Horgan! Yayyy…It was the longest amount of time i spent with her since she started Hedda (which finishes on Saturday night… and it’s sold out so if you weren’t fortunate enough to see it you can just trust me when i tell you it was wick’!).

A video we shot this summer in Copenhagen. The band is The Asteroids Galaxy Tour. The song is The Sun Ain’t Shining No More.

We’re doing their second video right now. Mette (the singer) broke her wrist on the set. That’s a little thing we like to call “hard core”, my friends!