Two Inch Astronaut have unveiled the video for the title-track from last month’s ‘Personal Life’ LP. The video, filmed almost entirely using selfie-sticks, is a potential commentary on the self-reduced privacy level of individual lives – if you wanted to look at that way. As director Mike O’Brien explains, it’s probably a little more simple.
“On a snowy Sunday afternoon in January we arranged volunteers in a circle around Two Inch Astronaut and simultaneously rolled camera on their individual selfie-sticked phones while the dudes played through the song multiple times,” he says.
“I captured everyone’s footage off their phones, synched them (4 scenes each with 15 different cameras), and edited between them. Originally I meant for the circular selfie-stick arrangement to accomplish some kind of DIY matrix-esque time-space-warp camera trick, but I didn’t plan well enough so it looked like garbage in the initial edit. Luckily, capturing a bunch of footage of people watching themselves watch Two Inch Astronaut play ‘Personal Life’ was still cool.”