Amanda Palmer - "No Surprises" Rotoscope Reference Video

[HappyThreeCheers]

For a while I forgot she's still a MIME until I saw this video. LOL

[KaiRabe]

thank you

[stevestoker]

Stop pretending art is hard.

[Cloey83]

Youtube's way of approving drug abuse for sure... omg - stop taking whatever youre taking

[elfspite]

i wanna like this infinity.

[kbstone]

You got the "freak" part right. This psycho's teeth and eyebrows will haunt me forever. Yikes.

[GreenToasty8D]

Absolutely stunning.

[Muff1nP0w3r]

I watch this and just stare because she's so freaking beautiful, the music only seems to make it all the more so.

[girlygoth180]

i love how she imitated the music video respectfully!! i love her she is so amazing and a strong women who does not follow the path of the female stereotype in society <3

[Clegfaced]

Ah, remembering Venice, teeth well ground, like a thinker, no opiates, unlike the only people I know who could make such striking sentences. Dig it.

[Oakheartanthroguy]

@Clegfaced Farr-out man.

[MrFingerswalsh]

Doesn't deserve to say the word Radiohead let alone try and 'sing' it. Terrible.

[AlexSlams]

@MrFingerswalsh Fair to say you don't get it then?

[MrFingerswalsh]

@AlexSlams stop trying to act like you're alternative knobhead. There's nothing to get: it's shite

[AlexSlams]

@MrFingerswalsh Act like i'm alternative? I bought OK Computer when it was released and I love it but it's not sacred to the point that it's untouchable by someone paying tribute to it. It's absolutely fine that you don't like it - that's the subjective nature of any art form, that's cool however don't denigrate the people that DO like it just because they don't share your view. It's fair to say you don't get it - move along. :)

[daREALellemo]

@AlexSlams There IS something to get - that this video is a reference for the one that follows, the animated one in which she drowns. You can see all the motions she goes through in this one in real life before all of the effects have been laid down. And at the end she becomes still, which makes sense if you paid attention to this one and then saw the other.

[daREALellemo]

@daREALellemo sorry, meant to direct that to MrFingerswalsh

[SomeRockerDude]

My god, those eyes...

[dadelcz]

that does not count, there is no water!

[AvaDisarm]

Her eyes are beautiful

[grizzwaldo]

Beautiful, lovely, hypnotic, mesmerizing. I love you AFP

[canyoutriplikeido]

By staring at her, you can know what her mug shot would look like.

[Oakheartanthroguy]

@canyoutriplikeido I've seen a mugshot of her. I can roughly see what you're saying. ;)

[lizsilverman]

She's so beautiful.

[poisonedfrog]

Miss Amanda, this is why we love you. Giving us the opportunity to feel like we've had a personal connection with you, even if through a video on youtube... Is a beautiful thing.

[bollockowithalob]

@poisonedfrog

Quit self-involving with an artist.

Good day.



[poisonedfrog]

@bollockowithalob

Apparently, you've never heard of Amanda Palmer...

You'll get it someday. =]

[bollockowithalob]

@poisonedfrog

As Bill Hicks once said, "The artist plays to himself or herself."

Best wishes

[puzzleclocks]

@bollockowithalob Your borrowed point was really good. Be cool about it though! Sometimes being on different levels is really completely natural! Anyone really into music is by definition, self-involved with the artist in a certain way!

[bollockowithalob]

@puzzleclocks

All things being relative, sunshine.

[rndmndvdl]

Is it weird if I love her teeth? I mean, they're just so unique and brilliant!

[DrunkenRussian17]

Amanda and I have the same color eyes :D

[DrDontcallme]

Ahh geez. I love her so much. xD It was a bit awkward at first, though. I felt like I had to look away but then I got use to staring into her eyes.

[Nightie]

wow

[cookiedew]

my eyes weirdly started to get watery when her's did.

[kahleentenshi]

beautiful

[SaltyVelorien]

I like the part where she stares and sings.

[SerenityMellissa]

That is really cool.

[serpasas]

Is it wrong that all I can think well watching this is how beautiful she it?

[leftysergeant]

This series of videos breaking down the steps to producing the featured video is absolutely fascinating. Sometimes, it is as entertaining to watch the creative process as it is to watch the realized performance or to view the finished artifact. I get the impression that I am viewing the work of an artist whose greatest creation is her public self.

[MissedMeMrsO1]

this is so cute, i am smiling like a doofus

[OrMush]

oh she's so beautiful.

[ditatube]

Not available on iPad? Please allow iPad viewing AFP.

[Hambergerhead]

i like how you can just stare at this video and it's like amanda is too staring back at you.

usually she wins the staring contest

[wookywooky91]

@Hambergerhead

true dat ;)

[DrFinkelstein99]

You're pretty awesome, Amanda.

[tannenradblogspot]

thank you for this intimate ... video :)

[Mfisch016]

I just got my Ukelele in the mail today! There's shall be my first song to transpose on the Uke!

Thanks for the non-animated version :). I thought I heard something about a bathtub?

[Aghast07]

Your almost as pretty as me Amanda!

[DrFinkelstein99]

@Aghast07 Rude lol.

[Aghast07]

@DrFinkelstein99 Well I have a sexy hat as she dosent!

[AndreaEatsRainbows]

I love her teeth :) 

[rockmyhome]

@AndreaEatsRainbows I love her eyes, I love her hair, I love her mouth, I love her eyebrows , I love her ears, I love her mind, I love her songs.

[jake1jake1jake]

It's interesting how motionless she keeps her head -- I bet it's to make drawing over each frame a little easier.

[JazzyD599]

I always love watching 'behind the scenes' or 'making of' videos. It really makes you realise how much work goes into creating the amazing final products. Everything you touch is just wonderful, when everythings going to shit I switch on my mp3, listen to some AFP, and completely ignore the world.

[madalainemccabe]

It's always wonderful and interesting to see the 'making of' and 'behind the scenes' footage. Thanks for sharing!

[qwertydeluxe]

Now I am even more impressed with the official video. Wonderful.