A fairy tale and some doodles (or: Saturday Night Creative Fever)

So, the fun duo that we are, we decided to spend yet one more Saturday night crafting (me) and composing music (N.). I had made the cut-outs that you see in the pictures quite a few days before, but we did not want to film the little video without a good camera and music. The camera part got solved with my brother's present and for the music we found some in-between solutions, recording with the lap-top and doing some juggling with midi files (I have no clue about those things, N. did it all).

Did the videos turn out perfect? No way. Do they please us and record efficiently our ideas? Totally. You see, these videos are kind of a sketch book, much more than complete works, and I find it absolutely necessary to take notes, in whatever form, of your ideas. Everything finds its place eventually.

You can see them here and here.

"Shadows" is the story of a girl who loved a boy without a heart (and that is literal, in this case), so she is struggling to find a way to become one with him. There is a witch involved as well as magical potions, transformations and the like.

The "happy days" one has a sense of longing, if you ask me. I mean, you see all those happy colors and the smiling creatures on the planet being created as the video goes on, but somehow -and the music has a lot to do with it- you feel that as fast as they were created, they will be gone. It is more like a memory of happy days. Also, I find the part where the rainbow is drawn very relaxing and I am considering making a video just recording such moves, for purely relaxing purposes.

Highlight of the weekend: there was SUN! And we went for a walk to the central square of Delft, where N. got to ask his favorite street musician what is this waltz he keeps playing. It turned out it was his own compositions. We sat at the foot of the statue, listening to his wonderful accordion music and soaking sun and looking at the rooftops and pigeons for half an hour or so and it was a tiny bit as if we were in Paris.