.: for we will travel :.

we buy these tickets
to fly on a plane
over oceans and seas
over land and humanity
and we laugh like children
full of zest
on our way to a city
of dreams
to immerse our
united states
of america
in the mystical
city of tokyo
japan
japan
japan
i say under my breath
to assure it is real
as we walk
the shinjiku steets
my heart beats
in a land
to us so foreign
we struggle to speak
but one language
remains true
a collective desire
to be a fan
to love a band
that is radioheadu
and through them
i am him
he is her
she is me
i am you

this is a stop motion movie that i made of my boyfriend and my trip from san francisco to tokyo to see radiohead. it is approximately 5000 frames.

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in the limelight

the pen story 

a stop motion movie of 60k images, 9k prints. wow. shooting a stop motion is no easy task. putting it together is no easy task either. the music and story in this piece pulls at you, makes you watch it further, fills your heart with nostalgia of growing up, falling in love. it makes the riding a bike seem so perfect, so tranquil. could that person be me? that is what they want you to think when you watch it. i love that the entire story is told from the inside of someone's house, as if the house is the holder of these moments of time. 

in the limelight

oren lavie

i am completely in love with this video. it is a stop motion movie, meaning still photographs stitched together to make a moving picture. it is a lot of work, considering that a 3.5  minute video could be up to 5000 images or so. i am attracted to the jagged feel that a stop motion picture has vs. regular video. oren lavie is a songwriter and director originally from tel aviv, israel. on his myspace page, he describes himself as someone who likes "to create dreamy visuals from realistic elements, [and] he enjoys squeezing big worlds into small places". this is a really interesting conceptual vision and it makes so much sense, considering that he showed an trulu emotional story without ever moving the camera away from the bed.