BTV The Series

A “chaotic and inventive” short form web docuseries direct from the mind of Brick Blair.
Visually stunning, masterfully edited, intellectually stimulating, and almost guaranteed to
successfully help you avoid whatever it is you are supposed to be doing right now.

 

Season One: Your Device

The first season of BTV The Series goes deep into the heart of Your Device, Brick’s first commercial song release. We want to say that this series is about Your Device, but that would be misleading. It’s more around, beside, underneath, inside of, or intermingled in an unholy way with Your Device. Watch it and blurb it—the marketing interns over here could use a hand. 

In this premiere episode Brick Blair confronts the chronic condition of our collective attention deficit disorder. However, don't take his advice just yet. First, watch this episode and try not to get addicted. OR... do and binge watch the first 3 episodes of BTV. See more at https://brickblair.com/ Listen to "Your Device": https://open.spotify.com/track/5caLd4nbxAEiYID8kzFs0w?si=b3ce17cc68ae47a3 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brickblair/
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Episode 01: Attention is Hard
In episode 2 Brick confronts all the wasted time he's spent staring at his various devices. He serenades us with deep music of distracted intellect. See more at https://brickblair.com/ Listen to "Your Device": https://open.spotify.com/track/5caLd4nbxAEiYID8kzFs0w?si=a0c75688836d41cf
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BTV - Ep.2 "Surfing the Edge of Attention"

See more at https://brickblair.com/ Listen to "Your Device": https://open.spotify.com/track/5caLd4nbxAEiYID8kzFs0w?si=a0c75688836d41cf The first season of BTV The Series goes deep into the heart of Your Device, Brick’s first commercial song release. We want to say that this series is about Your Device, but that would be misleading. It’s more around, beside, underneath, inside of, or intermingled in an unholy way with Your Device. Watch it and blurb it—the marketing interns over here could use a hand.
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BTV - Ep.3 "Visual Noise"

Brick Blair's third release is a stripped down vulnerable song evoking classic singer-songwriters like Cat Stevens & John Prine, albums like Nebraska, & songs like Townes Van Zandt’s, Waiting Around to Die. The chorus asks the listener to look away. It's a heartbreaking plea. The twist is it then asks them to look away so he can't see them pretending to care. "Two Dollar Coat is a musical projection into a reality where I am homeless, alone, and nullifying myself through drug addiction," said Brick. "I wrote it during a stark period where each day I faced decisions that would move me nearer or farther from that fate. For the three minutes and forty seconds it takes to sing this song, I’m in that future. I feel its truth in my throat, in my fingers, and in my blood." "There is a fragile filament separating my life from those of the people sleeping on the cold concrete that I walk each morning," said Brick. "That knowledge is useful. It keeps me connected to our shared humanity and the truth of our time together on earth."
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Brick Blair, Two Dollar Coat Official Music Video

In Bed With The Song

Climb into bed with Brick and his songs as he tells you their story. In this “groundbreaking and innovative” narrative series, get cozy and intimate with the ideas, emotions, themes, and inspiration behind each of this “hilarious, insightful, and intelligent” artist’s creations.

Season One: Your Device

Your Device is a short song with a deep history and expansive narrative.
If you want to live with this song for a little longer than 2:21, dive in.
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In Bed with the Song - Your Device pt. 1

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In Bed with the Song - Your Device pt. 2

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In Bed with the Song - Your Device pt. 3

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Your home for all of Brick’s official music videos.

Music & lyrics by Brick Blair Vocals performed by Brick Blair Video directed by Matyas Kelemen Produced by AB Strategy Marketing, Inc. Website: https://brickblair.com/ Listen to Your Device on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5caLd4nbxAEiYID8kzFs0w?si=ad7322508ce44e04 Brick Blair’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC9LZN60RR2tof7VB7SIdKA (c)2021 Brick Blair Music
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Brick Blair - Your Device (Official Video)

Brick Blair's third release is a stripped down vulnerable song evoking classic singer-songwriters like Cat Stevens & John Prine, albums like Nebraska, & songs like Townes Van Zandt’s, Waiting Around to Die. The chorus asks the listener to look away. It's a heartbreaking plea. The twist is it then asks them to look away so he can't see them pretending to care. "Two Dollar Coat is a musical projection into a reality where I am homeless, alone, and nullifying myself through drug addiction," said Brick. "I wrote it during a stark period where each day I faced decisions that would move me nearer or farther from that fate. For the three minutes and forty seconds it takes to sing this song, I’m in that future. I feel its truth in my throat, in my fingers, and in my blood." "There is a fragile filament separating my life from those of the people sleeping on the cold concrete that I walk each morning," said Brick. "That knowledge is useful. It keeps me connected to our shared humanity and the truth of our time together on earth."
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Brick Blair, Two Dollar Coat Official Music Video

Hey, its Brick, how are you? Let's talk about the Ball of Gold music video. This music video came from a painting that I did while I was teaching myself how to paint and draw on black surfaces, which is a really different technique that requires a different way of looking at things and executing them. Also, it was a really great excuse to buy a bunch of art supplies, which of course is always delightful. So here we can see the scene is emerging: we have the sun entering the scene, that ball of gold, into this blue band in the middle, we have the light revealing something happening above that blue band, a bunch of guys standing on the ceiling, or the floor, I guess depending on your perspective. And their job appears to be to hold that rope which is attached to a hip roof barn, which is attached to a block and tackle which is attached to the sun. And their job is to hold it there. Underneath the blue band, you can see there's a basement or a lower structure. And here we see what appears to be creatures who work there arriving for work. You can see their morning commutes a little bumpy. That guy on the left here, he's kind of lazy, he just likes to sit there. Who can blame him, it looks like he might be up next to run those pumps or whatever it is that they are hanging on to in the middle. So, this is the scene that we've entered. It's reminiscent to me at least of dioramas or elaborate theatre, Victorian theatre with elaborate mechanical infernal devices above and below. And then the setting of the main action in the middle establishing three different realities occurring at the same time. And in the middle of it all we have this giant ball of gold. So, what does it mean? I don't know? How the fuck do I know? After I painted this, I decided that I wanted to teach myself how to animate as I'd never done it before. And I started down that path several months ago. I started by cutting out pieces of the painting after scanning it and then realized, well wait, I need backdrops, I need other elements here that would be separate. So that I had to repaint some of it, recut some out. And then I realized that cutting things out was kind of stupid and that I could just do that in Photoshop. So that's what I did. I went about animating probably in the most inefficient way possible but learned a lot in the process. I estimate I probably spent about 60 hours total on this over several months on and off up into the last weekend where I probably did about 24 hours in a couple of days. Here comes the stars of our show—a couple of creatures who appear to be copulating. You can see that although there's differences in the detail, a lot of which was actually because of the technique I use to paint these, the creatures in the middle who appear to be fucking seem to be very similar to the creatures above and below. We see the big dudes in the middle on the bottom who are pumping red fluid out of the creatures fucking in the middle and filling up a reservoir beneath them. So that's our scene. It's climaxing as the song climaxes. I'm actually really quite proud of the animating I did on these characters fucking. If you watch it closely, it varies quite a bit and if you know anything about animation, you know that varying the sequence is a lot of fucking work. Now we see our main characters shrinking, getting smaller, or they're being deflated, or is their life force being sucked out of them until there's nothing left? I don't know, your guess is as good as mine? But we can see that the blood is now completely removed from them. And now the guys up top pull the rope to pull the sun up out of the blue band and into the sky and now it is night.
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Ball of Gold Official Music Video — With Creator Commentary

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