Author: The Mark of Nancy
Nick Lowe – Jet Pac Boomerang
What to say? There’s no bigger star in our personal musical firmament than Nick Lowe. When we were asked to contribute the animation to a new video for him, we picked our jaws up off the floor a... Read More
Sonya Cohen Cramer – No Place to Fall
We got to try a few new techniques on this video. Smithsonian Folkways has put out You’ve Been a Friend to Me, a collection of music, much of it unreleased, by Sonya Cohen Cramer. Sonya worked w... Read More
Linda Thompson – Those Damn Roches
This one was super fun. Folk-rock legend Linda Thompson’s album Proxy Music features her compositions being sung by various friends and family. “Those Damn Roches,” sung by her son T... Read More
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason – Nantucket Blues
This was a fun chance to try out some new techniques. Folk music legends Jay Ungar and Molly Mason perform “Nantucket Blues,” music and lyrics by Bonnie Brooke Mitchell. Bonnie’s dau... Read More
Ana Egge – Sorry You’re Sick
Our long-running collaboration with singer and songwriter Ana Egge continues, and this was an extra special project, because it involved her adaptation of a song by a real fave of ours, Ted Hawkins. A... Read More
Marcellus Hall – Behind the Stadium
Illustrator Marcellus Hall is also an accomplished musician and asked us if we could help bring some of his drawings to life for an insanely catchy song from his first solo album in 10 years. A rare c... Read More
Pierce Turner – Hail, Glorious Saint Patrick
Yet another video for Pierce Turner and StorySound Records, this one for Pierce’s updating of a hymn that was first published in 1853, with words attributed to Sister Agnes of the Convent of Ch... Read More
Wire Troop – Just One More Night
Wire Troop maestro Jay Sherman-Godfrey’s beautiful duet ballad with country songstress Laura Cantrell gave us a chance to make up (and animate) some fake sheet music from the golden age of music... Read More