Last year Green Day went nuts and released 37 new songs at once.  The tracks were spread out over three albums entitled ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, and ¡TRE!  To promote the new records, Green Day launched a video contest on the crowdsourcer site, TalentHouse.  Filmmakers and fans were asked to create a short film or music video that was inspired by any one of the 37 new songs.  There was a round of public voting but the guys from Green Day were the only judges whose opinions mattered.  Here’s the video they picked as the grand prize winner.  It’s by far one of the best music video contest entries I’ve ever seen.  It was created by an aspiring animator named Kyle Stein who’s currently a Studio Art major at the University of Pittsburgh.
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I can’t even imagine how many hundreds of hours of work went into this thing.  And you know what?  The song, Nuclear Family, ain’t bad either.  So the winning video is great but unfortunately, the prize that Green Day promised the winner is pretty lame.  For his efforts, Kyle got interviewed on Green Day’s website and he’s going to receive a Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR and some accessories.  But his entry isn’t even going to become the “official” music video for this track.  (Here’s the .  It’s nothing fancy.)  It’s nice that Green Day is promoting this guy’s work but if they named his submission their “official” music video they’d really be helping out his career.  I mean seriously, “produced and animated the official music video for the Green Day track, Nuclear Family” would look pretty damn good on a college kid’s resume, wouldn’t it?  Or at the very least the band could have tossed him a couple grand for his efforts.  Tons of musicians are now getting their music videos from contests like this but normally the bands wind up paying at least $5,000 to the winner.  The good news is that the director the winning video does seem pretty happy with his prize.  You can read more about this kid and his process in his official interview for GreenDay.com.

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