Her morning elegance

31 January 2009

This is lovely and so imaginative. And very simple — an idea, a detailed storyboarding process, and then still frames shot from a single camera and animated. Read more about it.

Simple can be so wonderful. Complicated has its place, but this simple approach is perfect for this song. And more than that — I can sense the influence not just of the song, or the artist, but also the animators, the actress, the photographer. I can feel them all present in these moments of music video. The personal, professionally done. That always appeals to me.

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14 Responses to “Her morning elegance”

  1. Realmcovet on January 31st, 2009 9:27 am

    I love the ambience of that video. Like you say, so simple, but done in just the right way.

  2. barbara sanchez on January 31st, 2009 11:10 am

    She’s beautiful, and she can dance, even in stills. The music is dreamy too. Thanks for this.

  3. Duncan on January 31st, 2009 12:28 pm

    That is beautiful, Kelley. Thanks for posting it. (I don’t know that I’d call it simple, though.)

  4. Anonymous on January 31st, 2009 5:58 pm

    wow, that was really cool!

  5. Kelley on February 1st, 2009 8:35 am

    So glad you all like it.

    Duncan, hmm, yes, simple is one of those contextual words like love or enough. I was thinking when I wrote the post of the video for the new U2 song. It’s very visually dense, lots of layers, quite complicated. It’s fun, but I don’t like it nearly as well as this one.

    I intended to post that video this weekend by way of comparison, but… it was up online for about 15 seconds on Friday before it was yanked for a re-do, seems that there were a couple of Getty-watermarked images in the content (*shakes head*).

    But by simple I don’t mean simplistic, if that’s where you were going… I think by simple in this context I mean transparent, clear, straightforward. It’s a simple story, beautifully told. I’m a big fan of that.

  6. rhbee1 on February 1st, 2009 10:49 am

    Like cats intertwined
    Or puppy dogs tumbled alltogether,
    You and I share cares (bare)on this bed.
    In and Out
    Your breath and mine,
    Like thoughts laced with wine
    Or sunlight through vines.

  7. rhbee1 on February 1st, 2009 10:51 am

    Oh and thanks for the tune, reminds me of old Micheal Franks.

  8. barbara sanchez on February 1st, 2009 1:01 pm

    rhbee, did you write the excellent poem or just quote it? If you wrote it, awesome. If you quoted it, awesome any way.

  9. rhbee1 on February 1st, 2009 1:13 pm

    It’s mine and thanks.

  10. Jennifer on February 1st, 2009 2:10 pm

    It is lovely. They manage to tell a lot of story with only a few simple graphic elements on a simple set with some very simple lighting.. And it fits the song so perfectly. I enjoyed reading about how they made it also. He said he originally intended to get a small woman with black hair; I agree with him that the actress made it. She’s beautiful, and her red hair really makes it work visually — she brings the stills to life. A lot of work must’ve gone into this; they did a great job – they made it look simple. That’s my take on it anyway.

  11. karina on February 2nd, 2009 10:15 am

    Great video. I forwarded the link to my stop-motion animation friends. It reminds me of Zbigniew Rybczyński’s work: the careful frame-by-frame choreography of human bodies and objects; the story that unfolds in a single, continuous plane; taking a truckload of work and planning and talent, and turning it into something that flows so beautifully that it all seems effortless.

    Kelley, thanks for sharing this with us.

  12. Duncan on February 5th, 2009 7:32 am

    Thanks, Kelley, but I know the difference between “simple” and “simplistic.” Maybe it’s just that I can’t see an animated stop-motion video like this without thinking of all the work that went into it. “Simple” just doesn’t feel like a word I’d apply to this video; I don’t think it’s contextual so much as subjective and personal, like “cute” or “hot.”

    I have to add, though, that it is increasingly difficult for me nowadays to see Israelis with any neutrality, especially one who makes a point of including in her bio that she returned to Israel from the US to join the army. That’s not stereotyping Shomron, since she drew attention to the fact herself.

  13. Kelley on February 5th, 2009 12:54 pm

    Well, words mean different things to different people. That’s one reason communication is so tricky.

  14. rhbee1 on February 5th, 2009 2:14 pm

    Duncan it appears you are addressing a different topic than the video. Who or what an artist is personally does often play a part in whether we like or dislike them. But are they their art?

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