To our surprise and gratitude, Director Ted Passon's "Dopeness" video , for the super rap – not rap- rap group Plastic Little, has been gaining a bit of attention. Stereogum has just posted an insightful interview with Ted Passon on their website. Here is an excerpt from the interview:

"I think the actual birthing turned out looking better than I thought it would. It's funny cause I never thought it would look so gnarly. In my mind it was kind of cute but we probably went a bit overboard with the "birth fluids." I didn't really intend to use the takes with the fluid but when you're in a situation where you're having fun getting to put gross shit all over your friends' heads it's easy to get carried away."

Click Here to read the whole interview on StereoGum with Ted Passon.


Another great interview with Ted has been posted on the website Shots Ring Out. A bit of a different take on the video as well:
"I had never done such complicated long takes before (as you may have noticed the video is actually three shots put together in an attempt to look like one shot) and we did each shot about 25 times before we got it right (not counting rehearsals) – except for the last shot which we only did about 10 times, but I probably would have done more if we had had more time."

Read more of this interview with director Ted Passon at ShotsRingOut

Big Thank you for Dazed and Confused Terence The posting his interview about Dopeness with Plastic Little rapper Pack of Rats on the Dazed Digital site.

Click Here to read the interview by Terrence with Pack of Rats



Mother Jones put Dopeness Video in their Top Ten

"But before you fire me, Mother Jones, please hear me out: it's all done in such a spirit of surreal and silly fun, it's hard to be offended, and if it was a French short film and not a rap video you'd be putting it in a museum."

Click here to read Mother Jones' opinion of the video

And Two White Boys with Blog have a bit of a different opinion concerning the video and Plastic Little, in general, so in all fairness we post this review by the enlightened duo:

"This shit was so disturbing to my macho heterosexuality that I pretty much dusted off the Screw CDs and listened to nothing but bass heavy gangsta shit for a week, usually with a tall can of Negro Modelo in my lap, riding around just trying to wash the f eeling of faggotry out my earlobes."

Many Thanks to whole cast and crew who worked on the video! To read more about the many different roles that had to be filled, check out
Click here to read more about the artists who were involved in it's creation

FreeNewsProjects and Plastic Little would also like to thank Philebrity, Okay Player, FiftyOneFiftyOne, Pitchfork, TwoOneFive, Turntable Lab, Stereo Gum, Dazed, VBS, and the City of Brotherly Love for their continued support. Plastic Little has shown that its possible for all ethnic groups, religons, hipsters, nerds, dorks, dweebs, political parties, terrorists, klansmen, genders and transgenders to come together, hold hands and unite behind a cause... that Plastic Little makes everyone uncomfortable including us at FreeNewsProjects. That's why we love them.



So there you have it. You can be the judge and take a look at the video on youtube.