Friday, March 7, 2008

Sigur Ros Take Over

We are thrilled to let the shy and beguiling Icelandic post-rock quartet Sigur Ros take over our home page with a full, 97-minute presentation of their DVD Heima, along with 10 videos created by their fans out of unused footage from the film.



What is this otherworldly road trip? Heima documents Sigur Ros' 2006 free tour of Iceland and it's their first-ever concert film. With the shows announced only by word-of-mouth, the band ended up performing in deserted fish factories, far West fjords and tiny regional community halls. "Heima" means both "at home" and "homeland" in Icelandic.



Sigur Ros invited their fans to participate in their film project by creating a video contest on YouTube asking users to create their own "little Heima" with extra footage from the DVD. After sorting through nearly 150 videos, the band selected their favorite, by sdewitt108, whose film has been referred to as "The Cosmic Sheep."



We'll let Sigur Ros tell you (in their own reluctant manner) about the contest, the cosmic sheep, and their unique and magical film:







We hope you enjoy this peaceful journey of music and epic landscapes from Heima, as presented by Sigur Ros and, of course, you.



Takk,

Michele K-Tel

YouTube Music

57 comments:

kenfeyl said...

Can YouTube just comment on why they removed sorting by view count? Frankly, I don't give a !@#$ about guys with distorted heads. I do care about search. The reality is that view count is a far better discriminator of good and bad results than YouTube's "relevance score," which probably took hundreds of man-hours to write and implement only to lead to complete !@#$. Can YouTube at least state why they've removed the view count sort?

kenfeyl said...

Can YouTube just comment on why they removed sorting by view count? Frankly, I don't give a !@#$ about guys with distorted heads. I do care about search. The reality is that view count is a far better discriminator of good and bad results than YouTube's "relevance score," which probably took hundreds of man-hours to write and implement only to lead to complete !@#$. Can YouTube at least state why they've removed the view count sort?

MiSoto said...

Looks like someone could use some time with Sigur Ros CDs. Chill, man. Can't have everything in life.

ialcclai said...

Here's how to sort the results by view. Go to Google Video (video.google.com), type your query and select "sort by popularity". You may need to add to the query site:youtube.com or just youtube, but most of the results are from YouTube anyway.

almhml1 said...

I should be watching this Code
Thank you very much

engo9017 said...

BRING BACK SORT BY VIEW COUNT!!!

alidagubag said...

INTERESTING!

grafico242 said...

please bring back sort by view count. thanks

Mimlitz said...

I recommend: use yahooooo! video search. They offer you the option of results sorted by most viewed.

ondahorizon said...

dunno where to contact you .... just agree with engo9017 that say BRING BACK SORT BY VIEW COUNT!!! ... i think the old one .. which include sort y viewcount is much better ....

HitsugayaDAI said...

Bring sort by View Count back!!!

SharRehTV said...

what is that anyway?

zigthenig said...

ay does anybody know how to post comments on youtube

zigthenig said...

oh yeah i guess the videos aight

bjroyster said...

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goodfella1005 said...

Hi All, My name is Joe and I am in a wheelchair since the age of five due to a drunk driver, which claimed the lives of my dad and my eleven year old sister. The reason I am sharing this is because I started a Non-profit organization called The SpinalCord foundation and I would like to hold a contest to help raise money for the foundation. Can anyone help me put something together? email me at lovetoocater@aol.com

5677976 said...

l love heima.

itsper said...

Sigur Ros pwns.

BUT GET VIEW COUNT BACK!

NoobersonWinter said...

LOL

chanelheaven said...

sorry to use this for spam.. but
my channel was flagged a gagillion times
i had over 3000 subs and i have been working on my channel since AUGUST.
my email is shortiebs@yahoo.com my old username is heavennevaeh can someone PLEASE please check this matter i have been trying to recieve justice for a MONTH.

checkers143 said...

its not good at all

papadude55 said...

thanks

papadude55 said...

this is great..youv'e taten me places i never would have gone ,found some great music....

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StopTheVideoPirate said...

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