State Shirt - Crush - Music Video stop motion animation

I just wrote this song last week for SongFight and wanted to create a music video for it in 7 days. The budget was $0. The shopping cart was left on my street and the paper was from old fashion and art magazines. The stop motion animation was time consuming but so much fun! Thanks to Angela Heine for shooting the shopping cart footage and for pushing me around for an hour.

You can buy the mp3 at http://stateshirt.com. thanks for the support.

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Here are the lyrics:

butterflies inside, you're sick again?
give me a nickname that won't stick.
think about me as you wash your dirty hands again.

press between opposing bodies
take off your bra, you disintegrate into dust
this room is filled with light, day and night
i can't sleep i just have this crush.

since 1976, only two finished records
tendinitis, pushing someone else's dream
broken wheel, this shopping cart
moves in the wrong fucking direction!

two hundred boxes of soiled kleenex
two hundred letters i sent to myself, they were for you.
this desperate last ditch effort had better pay off
i know we're both the same.

park my heap on the corner
get out of my blind spot, and take off your clothes
i just want to crush this place.

what's wrong with you?
sure we'll spend our lives together, but please
leave me alone, i just want to sleep.

Category:

Music

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• stop motion animation
• studio
• indie rock
• singer
• songwriter
• music video
• shopping cart
• ross
• dress for less
• gibson
• oberheim
• echoplex digital pro
• line 6 dl4
• delay modeler
• bogner alchemist
• fender toronado
• boss df-2
• line 6 m9
• stompbox modeler
• tdk
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[astronautcowboy1188]

love the song love the stop motion :)

[stateshirt]

@astronautcowboy1188 thanks a lot!! :)

[soundofseventythree]

This was absolutely amazing!!! I've been thinking about doing a stop-motion animation for one of my videos and never ever in my wildest dreams imagined it could ever come out this good. Of course it probably wouldn't, but for you to do this on a whim, on your first try, and in a week... whew! You are one amazingly talented dude. The song, of course, is amazing as usual.

[stateshirt]

@soundofseventythree - thanks for the kudos!! it was a ton of fun to put together. i highly recommend trying some stop motion. It's time consuming but fun to see it all come together. I used a program called Dragon Stop Motion... it's not cheap but it's excellent.

[KlasLinde]

Holy hell, this was amazing. What confuses me is why you've not got more views/listens- this. Is. A. masterpiece. Just like most of your other stuff.

Impressive stop motion too, really impressive. Just HOW long did that all take?

[stateshirt]

thanks so much!! the stop motion was shot at 12 frames per second, so it took a ton of time. I didn't add up the hours but it took every evening for about a week. Filling my studio with crushed paper also took a lot of time!

[RandallPStudios]

Genius!

[mujawooja]

Fantastic stop frame work and great music

[Az00ra]

Very cool shit!

[bluthfamilyvalues]

cool cool COOL shit. nice work e-man......