Video of the Week: Oren Lavie

Stop-Motion At It's Elegant Best

A few days ago a friend was telling me about her love for the Kindle commercials that use some great stop-motion techniques to create a compelling ad. She told me she was watching them on YouTube when she stumbled on a music video that used the same techniques. She couldn't remember the artist or song title but I had an idea what it was so I described Oren Lavie's video for "Her Morning Elegance" to her and sure enough we had a match.

The video really is great, as is the song. It was a bit of a hit (10 million+ views) on the Internet last year but didn't obtain the kind of attention I thought it would. OK Go probably put out a video around the same time. The video is actually a clever edit of 2,096 still images taken by photographer Eyal Landesman over two days. As you'll see in the video those images are pieced together to tell the narrative of a young woman waking up and going about her day all the while remaining in her bed.


oren lavie - her morning elegance from valerie y. on Vimeo.

The coolest part about the video is that the studio that created it is now selling each of the 2,096 images in the video, each numbered and signed, in hopes of separating the video so it can be "hung in 2,096 houses, bedrooms, living rooms and galleries." Each print will cost you $250 plus shipping and is available at HMEGallery.com. Has anyone heard the rest of this album? I'm curious if the whole thing is as good as this song.