For most of May, I’m going to be featuring music videos in my Favorite Videos of the Day. I love music videos and there is so much diverse and remarkable work out there that it’s been really fun to start digging around online to find some good videos to feature. Here’s a round-up of this week’s videos:

Radiohead: “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” – A hauntingly beautiful song mixed with incredible black and white footage that plays with variable speed shooting and high contrast lighting to wonderful effect. Directed by Jonathan Glazer.

Gnarls Barkley: “Going On” – This video just came out in the last couple of weeks and I loved it right away for the energy and movement, art direction, and the great use of text all throughout. Directed by Wendy Morgan.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: “Can’t Stop” – Inspired by the “One Minute Sculptures” of Erwin Wurm, this video is fun, whimsical, colorful, and creative. Directed by Mark Romanek.

The Shins: “Pink Bullets” – A wonderfully animated stop motion story of love found and lost. Directed by Adam Bizanski.

Johnny Cash: “Hurt” – What can I say about this video. It’s brilliant. Johnny Cash covers the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt” and adds a deep poignancy and gravity to the lyrics as the song and video wrestle with the ideas of legacy and mortality. Directed by Mark Romanek.