Music Under Fire

After much turkey eating yesterday, we're taking it easy today and just catching up on another one of Radiohead's contests, which had been completed as of the end of the summer. The animated video contest, which was held by Aniboom, hosted a contest letting fans of Radiohead submit their self-made animated videos for songs from their In Rainbows album. The contest itself boasted a $10,000 prize for the best video and aniBoom received more than 1000 entries, representing more than 150 cities, 40 countries and 5 continents!

Radiohead enjoyed the thousands of submissions they received, so they chose four winners, giving each enough winnings to complete the final version of each of their videos. Radiohead will be premiering the final versions of three of these videos on their MySpace page on the following dates:

- "Weird Fishes" by Tobias Stretch on November 21
- Kota Totori of Japan for "15 Step" on November 25
- Wolfgang Jaiser and Claus Winter for "Videotape" on November 28.

From their post:

Due to the extraordinary quality of the submissions, Radiohead decided to choose four winning videos, rather than a single winner, and provided the additional prize money so that each of the four creators receives $10,000 to produce their full-length video.