The Bowerbirds - In our Talons

We're only human;
this at least we've learned.

"The video takes the visual spectacle of a nature documentary and puts it into a stop-motion animated world. We explore 3 magical creatures from 3 different lands, equally beautiful yet doomed by the hand of man." (Source: MySpace)

Bowerbirds are a nu-folk band from Raleigh, North Carolina. The band members are Beth Tacular, Phil Moore and Mark Paulson.

In Our Talons is featured on their 2007 album, entitled Hymns for a Dark Horse.

Music video directed by Alan Poon and produced at Circle. Director of photography: Adam Makarenko.

Edited by Mark Paiva at School Editing. Visual Effects Lead: Yoga Kurniawan.

Lead Animator: Mike Hollenbeck. Animators: Sylvie Trouve, Anibal Davila.

Sculptor: Christy Langer. Lead Fabricator: Diana Savage. Set Designer: Adam Makarenko. Set Construction: Joel Harrison-Off.

"The bird alone took over a month for the puppet fabricators to build. Over 300 feathers were manually sized and glued onto the bird puppet."

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[ummokayyeah]

that image of the praying mantises kissing is.....extraordinary.

[BadLactose]

Gorgeous, mysterious imagery

[SJP114]

TALONS!

[TheAmber33]

God, i love this song! where's the repeat button?

[thescienceguy96]

I used to play this whole song again and again on my guitar when I was little. It is still an amazing song to me, and I still like the video.

[thescienceguy96]

Don't female mantis eat the male's head after mating? Just saying...

[talonescalante]

my name is talon, and i approve this song.

[MsLetmaelk]

I cant belive there is only 16.446 views. This is amazing

[Surnameist]

Leaves a lot to imagine, kinda put the pieces of the puzzle together and really learn our own message from this song and apply it to our own lives.