STAR+CROST Motion Comic Music Video Illustrated and Performed by ERICÆTHER

http://www.Facebook.com/BREATHEintheETHER | http://www.MySpace.com/EricaEther - OFFICIAL SELECTION of the 2011 Willamsburg International Film Festival!!! If you like what you see, or just appreciate the effort, please share with your friends, favorite, or BOTH!!! I'm just an army of one, and your friends won't know about this unless you share it! Thanks... BUT I digress...

I wrote this song in an hour, recorded it over the course of a week, but the drawings for this music video took a little longer than that. This is a "motion comic" from the mind of the narrator, one who tends not to leave her native "Fantasy World", eventually shifting further throughout the song into her ultimate lonely reality of being STAR+CROST, with? from?... why?...

Everything in this music video, lyrics, music, and illustration consisting of nearly one hundred traditional pencil and ink drawings, then filming and editing (just check my "Borderline megalomaniac 3rd person credits" at the end, heh) is all done by me, by myself, ALONE, like the rest of my life! A mishmash of responses to "Lolita", "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari", James O'Barr's "The Crow", "Lola" by The Kinks, "Seventeen" by Winger, "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles, "Little Queenie" by Chuck Berry, and the most epic "Take On Me" seminal avant garde music video optical and aural experience by a-ha, all in one polarizing couple of minutes. You feel that? Put on your headphones, 'cause you're breathing in the ether...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• star crossed
• Star crost
• erica ether
• ether
• star+crost
• dark disco
• disco-noir
• comic book
• comic-con
• motion comic
• drawing
• super hero
• animation
• take on me
• independent
• cartoon
• dance
• happy heartbreak
• jem and the holograms
• synergy
• komakino
• cabinet of doctor caligari
• pulp
• music video
• VMA
• Wonderwoman

[EricaEther]

And, everyone who has on the REAL shown overwhelming support, and dug not just this video, but my vibe and music in general, a humble and heartfelt thank you!!!

[EricaEther]

Well, it comes with the territory of being me... Always has... I suppose if I moved you to the point of feeling compelled to take an active stance to some degree, WIN...

[tsmxxx]

Outstanding stuff, Erica, truly...

Oh, and "Komakino", correct?

I'll take that Scooby Snack now!

[EricaEther]

@tsmxxx HUZZAH!!! Glad you enjoyed it! I'll make sure to keep a supply of "Scooby Snacks" the ol' day job when next you need a refill... of GAS people, GAS!!! Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

[EricaEther]

3:09 = Ridiculous. Heh. This is best heard with headphones, as a little of the audio degraded already. Just a pigeon turd, though! Comic-Con!

[jcmegabyte]

Very impressive artwork, animation/editing and music performance :-) Keep up the good work!

[georgiahaege]

your self-portraiture is uncannily exact! you are ridiculously talented as a singer, songwriter and illustrator. amazing. x

[georgiahaege]

your self-portraiture is uncannily exact! you are ridiculously talented as a singer, songwriter and illustrator. amazing. x

[starzspot]

Hey this is that girl that comes to the gas station, me and my wife........ You should really take this all the way!~ *Smiles* You are cool shit!

[starzspot]

Hey this is that girl that comes to the gas station, me and my wife........ You should really take this all the way!~ *Smiles* You are cool shit!

[jenntynn]

Absolutely awesome..thats all I can say. You truely are extremely talented.

[asetisis]

You're an extremely talented artist. I hope good things come your way. 

[znader2007]

luv the video so much. Great job.