Video: Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home

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this week's cutie vid is a really special one it was was created with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper shown as it was shot, with no effects added in post production music: Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home director : Erez Horovitz concept : Sam Cohen + Erez Horovitz illustrator : Sarah Graves

Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home

Josh Ritter has released three albums to date and established himself as one of this generations great singer-songwriters. Ritter just released a new EP and the first single debuted as a video for ETSY . Now, you might wonder why a video would debut on a website that sells crafts, but once you see the video you'll understand. The stop-motion animation for “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home” uses photographs culled from over 12,000 pieces of construction paper to animate a nighttime drive. A team of nearly twenty artists, editors, directors and product [...]

According to 24Bit , the new Josh Ritter video required 12,000 pieces of construction paper to animate the tune from his new EP, Bringing In The Darlings . Check out the clip for "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home" below and visit Ritter's Etsy shop if you are bored. Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from Josh Ritter on Vimeo .

Josh Ritter is a big favorite of the MOR Staff.  Pretty much unanimously, Josh has a tune or two that each of us call a favorite.  While we are all anxiously awaiting a new LP full of tunes that we hope span the spectrum of pace and range that we all know Josh has to offer, his upcoming EP Bringing in the Darlings has offered a pleasant detour for the time being. A soft little number, "Love is making its way back home" has a rather remarkable new video to promote the new offering.  Using some pretty bad [...]

Josh Ritter released a new EP yesterday.   Bringing Home the Darlings , released on Pytheas Recordings, has six brand new songs that were mixed and recorded this winter at a small little studio in Brooklyn called Homeward Sound. Along with the new release, Ritter also revealed the video for the song "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home" on Etsy . This crazy awesome stop-motion video was made with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper and had no effects added in post production.  Which means, everything that you see here is nothing more than photographs of paper [...]

Josh Ritter's new EP, Bringing in the Darlings , was released today, along with a video for "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home."  According to Ritter's website , the video was made using over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, all arranged by hand with no special effects.  Check it out: Support This Artist :

Josh Ritter and friends' knack for arts and crafts-inspired music videos first hit my radar with 20102s marionette puppetry-starring clip for "The Curse," helmed by touring drummer Liam Hurley. But today they're taking this endearing form of audio-visual storytelling to another level: opening an Etsy shop to celebrate Ritter's Bringing In the Darlings single, "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home," complete with a new music video featuring 12,000 pieces of construction paper to animate the tune's tale. Given the "more autobiographical" subject matter Ritter has pivoted toward for [...]

What do you get when you cross Josh Ritter, 20 artists, and 12,000 pieces of construction paper?

Josh Ritter' s new EP,  Bringing in the Darlings , is out today. So is the video for the single, "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home", which comes in the form of a stop-motion animation. Twenty artists, editors, directors and product assistants, turned 12,000 pieces of construction paper into a four-minute nighttime drive. Naturally, the end result premiered on Etsy . In addition to the video, the artists behind the video have created a limited run of screenprinted posters based on a selection of frames. Each poster will [...]