This is a piece I worked on years ago back in school. There were a lot of frustrations and concessions made and at the time that we finished it I was fairly disappointed with the results. Now, however, a thousand+ days removed, I can look at this and appreciate some pretty cool stuff going on.
This is also the first music-for-media piece that Micah and I collaborated on. We created a cacophony of chaos in the first scene with samples of old Johnny Carson reruns, MIA, the Smiths, car horns, street drummers, and so on, with a lot of that audio captured on the streets of NYC. In the second scene, we did some pretty cool stuff with a bowed electric guitar, a boumbek, and some bells—the last two were reversed in the mixing to create some interesting sounds.
Anyways, check it out. I wouldn’t necessarily classify it as an “easy watch” but hopefully it will be worth your time. Let me know what you think.
09 March 2010
Obviously, this video has been seen my almost everyone in the world—and rightfully so. It executes such a fresh, fun, and unique way to telling a story. I’ve been wanting to tip my hat to it’s excellence since Super Bowl Sunday, and since I was on the subject of storytelling, I decided now was the time to pay homage to one of the best I’ve seen recently.
Also, It’s fun for me to compare their execution of a similar design brief that we received when working on the Typophile Film Festival opening credits a few years back: show a life using only typography. Our approach was dramatically different, but I think people connected with it because of good storytelling, once again. Leave it to Google, though, to tell the story SO much more simple than anyone else. Anyways, probably not too new to most readers, but I thought I’d post this here because I actually don’t think it’s ever made it onto this site.