Semi-Finalists Announced in Radiohead Animation Contest

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After whittling the field down to over sixty videos, the semi-finalists in the Aniboom/Radiohead animation contest were announced today. All ten of the semi-finalists will receive $1,000 to construct a minute-long animation. Seven of In Rainbows' tens tracks are represented this round. Among the finalists are Anthony Catania's storyboarding of Zoo soundtracked by "Nude," Hideyuki Kota's anime-inspired clip for "15 Step" and Clement Picon's video for "Reckoner" which draws upon Radiohead's "Xendless Xuburbia" motif (embedded above.) To see all the semi-finalists (all the videos are pretty awesome), click here. Viewing and voting for this round will take place until June 9th, the finals will take place June 23rd and the winning animation will be announced June 30th.

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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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