This one veers off our normal subject matter a bit, but it's so full of awesome I had to pass it along. Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin alerted me to the recent debut of an animated music video for "Spacious Thoughts," a collaboration between Tom Waits and Kool Keith (no, seriously!) created by the N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) project.
The animation for "Spacious Thoughts" is absolutely wild (see it for yourself after the jump), and BoingBoing spoke to the creators of the video's visual element, the Montreal-based duo Fluorescent Hill.
"The giant Cloud in the chorus was the first thing we came up with," said the duo. "We felt the chorus had to be big, and Waits' voice is just so huge you just have to go with something towering over the rest of the video, and in this case the city....which ended up working out really well for the lyrics in that section. Also we didn't want to do caricatures of the singers, it had been done before with waits, I believe Ralph Bakshi had anmiated/rotoscoped him, so to try and just get at the quick pop of Kool Keith and the growl and bark of Tom Waits."
Check out the full interview with Fluorescent Hill over at Boing Boing, and higher-res versions of the video are available at Boing Boing Video.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled comics conversation...