So, although this is by now old news to those of you who are friends with the rapping-est hamster on the Myspaces, the rest of you may be interested in seeing my hamster rap music video. It doesn’t feature shots of the actual performers, opting instead for a more “random photographs thrown into flash” aesthetic, but it still pleases me, and I can confidently say that it is the best music video you’ll see this year*

Ham-STAR vs. Mystical Hamsta: Runnin’

As long as we’re talking about videos, the best music video you’ll see last year** is this collaboration with the inimitable Lex Friedman. And when I say “collaboration”, I mean that I we both wrote words and storyboarded, but he did all of the work of actually recording the song and filming himself and putting the video together.

“Just Google”

Finally, at one point, master puppeteer Dan Weissbrodt and I worked together to create a music video for a contest that Turbotax was holding. Since we didn’t win, I think we can safely say that the judges didn’t know much about good rap. Which is odd, given that Vanilla Ice was a judge. Stop, Ninja, Stop, Ninja, Stop. Anyway, if you like puppets, here’s our video for that:

“Save to the Max”

*that is a collaboration between one hamster rapper from Massachusetts and one hamster rapper from Australia.

**seriously, no qualifiers.

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