In the piece, Pharrell's interactions with Yoshi[ch] lack the usual machismo, bravado, and vamping of traditional girl/boy music video tales.
It can appear, as with Judith Barry's Cairo Stories, audio and video tales of the experiences of Cairene women, as if out of nowhere, in souks, at the heads of narrow stairwells, and on building walls.
A local amateur photographer, Mark Bull, filmed the band's performances and made the music video "Fake Tales of San Francisco", releasing it on his website, alongside the contents of Beneath the Boardwalk – a collection of the band's songs which he named after a local music venue.
The problem is that the video's tale of abduction and escape does not provide nearly enough in the way of sense or entertainment value.
The acts shown in the videos — "The Tales of Charlie's Ankles," "Smush" — were already illegal, but prosecutors had found it nearly impossible to identify the participants in the videos, and thus to enforce the existing laws.
A set of three animated videos, titled Tales from Dunwall, serving as a prequel to Dishonored, were released in September 2012.
Gulping nervously, the prisoners stare into the video camera, spilling tales of intrigue, betrayal and paid espionage on behalf of the United States.
Reich gets attention first, with a weekend that includes performances of his classic Drumming, the video opera Three Tales, and the orchestral Desert Music.
In December, at a fund-raising dinner at a hotel in Washington, D.C., twelve hundred people watched a video that told tales of girls' coercion into sexual slavery, followed by accounts of their liberation and redemption.
A high-tech operation involving voices, instruments, recordings, and video images, "Three Tales" conjures up, in the space of about an hour, the crash of the Hindenburg, the Bikini Atoll atom-bomb tests, and the cloning of Dolly the sheep.
That was the centrepiece of the Britten Sinfonia's programme, conducted by Clark Rundell, which also included a rare outing for Reich's second "video opera" Three Tales, which he created with his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot.
