The Alan Parsons Project - Breakdown

This video took me about 6 hours to do it, a simple experimental 2D animation, trying to give image to this great hymn.
The concept is simple as the message of the lyric itself.
I think this song can be applied to many situations and stories, so I chose to use shadows on the characters and not revealing race, status or nationality, also (the shadows) plays very well with humans-machines ambiguity, remember we talk about "I Robot" album and not a "human odyssey", but in both cases works successfuly.

I hope the message of this song, 30 years later, wake up us a little bit from this "comfortably numb" that we chose.

This video is dedicated to the memory of my father, who never "brokedown".

I hope you enjoy it and leave your comments.

Category:

Music

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• Alan Parsons
• Eric Woolfson
• Ian Bairnson
• Asimov
• I Robot
• Eduardo Vivona
• EVM Scan
• Sci Fi
• Animation
• Music
• Rock
• Progresive
• Protest

[MoeZeppelin]

awesome! great work!

[EduardoVivona]

@MoeZeppelin Thank you so much Moe!

[MetallicBill]

I like collages of the artist and band lineups, for stills anyway. The band in the videos has always been a key point of interest for me, because I could not see them on the radio! haha

[EduardoVivona]

@MetallicBill We need a "Tele-Image-radio"! Funny comment!

[Rufrounthedge]

Really forces the mind to "Overdrive". Great song and great reproduction of thought. I am what I am! :)

[MetallicBill]

@EduardoVivona Not Subscribed.... to that channel on my sister's or parents' cable. I ditched cable back when MTV died, 2005...though actually earlier then that they were flailing like a beached fish

[TheMommy2x]

@FunkingDave

[MetallicBill]

@EduardoVivona I don't pay for TV, I collected hours of MTV and VH1 on tape when I did have cable, thankfully it was the better programming too!

[EduardoVivona]

@MetallicBill Try VH1 Classic ;)

[MetallicBill]

@MetallicBill The Cool TV is like MTV for free, no subscription to watch it, it only plays music videos, but it has nearly abandoned older 80s videos for new bands trying to establish themselves, They need to regress a bit and diversify before becoming more of the same stale current music trend. Gotta buck the trend rather then conform

[MetallicBill]

@EduardoVivona Even Sat radio doesn't solve that issue, but I mentioned here where I live TheCOOL TV is a DTV broadcast channel added to the former UHF band or the new ATSC HDTV bands that you get for free, but radio is not dead, contrary to long held beliefs! haha