When you get a group of bunnies together with a telescope, anything can happen. I know this from experience, sure, but it's reaffirming to see it play out music video-style, too.
From the press release (I loved reading about the making of this video):
The video for [Kathryn Calder's] "Slip Away" was a pure collaboration between two very creative minds. The origin of it was born from Calder herself. The look of it is based on the original artwork she created, which is featured on Are You My Mother (out Aug. 10). The characters and landscapes were collaged together, creating a world in which the album and its listeners could live. The themes of the quest for something lost and bittersweet victories are all over Kathryn's record as well.
Kathryn then looked to her trusted friend Dean Tzenos' to put these elements together and make it all come to life. Dean elaborates, "This project brought me out of my comfortable computer chair and into a musty basement of puppets, props and National Geographic cut-and-paste landscapes. It was a lot of fun because I had to create atmosphere with practical effects. We attached LED lights to our fingers for the spaceship sequences, constructed miniatures of sock puppets and made use of an iPod Touch for a robot head. We breathed life into the puppets through composition, light, and the subtle and stark movements of puppeteers."
