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Uploaded on Dec 6, 2006

This is my video for Sufjan Stevens song "Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" (the first track on his wonderful "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!" album). The video is primarily shot with a Fisher Price PXL 2000 Pixel-vision (a toy camera made in the '80s). This early digital format helped me achieve the ghostly grainy images. Besides shooting "live" footage with the PXL I also transfered "real" UFO footage to the camera.

The sharper images are transfered stop-motion images taken by NASA on the planet Mars. I re-edited, tinted, and zoomed around the images to make them my own.

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  • Gregory Bryant

    Well done. Dust devils have always captured me too. :)

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  • jymdavis

    Those Dust spirals are on Mars. Taken from NASA imagery on the red planet. Very cool.

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  • Astral1980

    Sufjan played this on Saturday in Oslo, and he cried at the end. He didn`t make a big deal out of it, but just as he finished a tear fell on the piano. Magic.

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  • LouisEyeV

    This song makes me want to crawl beneath my sheets by the window on a rainy day, and look on watching the cars go by in the dark with their headlights streaming in, believing that i will one day live on the sky, and that i will be a UFO visting earth, a place i once called home

    

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  • Chris Holmes

    My little Cherub

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    Love you, baby. Always will.

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  • Stuart Chester

    fantastic song, beautiful in fact, I can imagine it as a funeral track as a refreshing change from Celine Dion

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  • Asa Scene

    I love this song, and your video is so prefect for this song. 1:22 and on not as much. But I love the first part I think it should be the official video.

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  • Scott Nibert

    Fantastic. This song makes me think of laying under a dark, vast, starry sky, in a deserted field in the country, waiting for a UFO to fly over. Perfect opener to an amazing album!

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  • Nick Kokoshis

    There's a horrible buzz in this soundtrack. can't you fix it?

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