Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: Björk’s “Wanderlust”
With a world overloaded with computer images, something is to be said about those that stick to the old school methods of creating the fantastic. When you combine the two, the images that can be created are endless. Enter Björk. The Icelandic export has been blowing minds since 1992, and with the help of the music video, she has had us scratching our heads and watching in wonder. In past projects Björk has brought us everything from robots in love to post-apocalyptic future-scapes, each one an exaggerated cartoonish version of reality. So it should come as little surprised that soon after singer released “Wanderlust” as the forth single from her latest record Volta, a video of the song followed.
To make this extravagant, Where the Wild Things Are inspired tale come to life, Björk enlisted the help from an army of animators, actors, and make up artists that would build, and act as the creatures you see. Both miniature and life sized props were used to bring it all to life, and what results is something that could only be seen with Björk. Conveniently enough, the creators have provided a short montage documenting the making of the video. You just can’t help but feel for those water buffalo…
“Wanderlust”
The Making of “Wanderlust”
After the disappointing videos for what I think are Volta’s much better songs, “Earth Intruders” and “Declare Independence,” I was glad to see her back to her wonderful, elaborate Bjorkness in this clip. Though I would’ve liked a radio edit instead — 7.5 minutes is a bit of a challenge.
I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing it with 3-D glasses yet.
That shit is wierd!
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Tied for most of Tool’s music videos, this is the craziest and most inventive music video ever.
I just so happen to have a pair of blue and red 3D specs lying around so I was able to give encyclopediapictura.com’s 3D presentation a whirl. It’s wild and awesome. I highly recommend it and hope more videos do it in the future. The video was fun but I’m surprised that, for all the work they put into it, and as interesting a concept as they were working with, this is the best video they could make.
All the shots are really stale - either face-forward or directly from the side. Most of the time when Bjork’s on the screen she’s in the dead-center. There’s action going on everywhere, really detailed puppets, and a creepy contortionist backpack-person - but nothing’s really happening, no dynamic movement of the camera to compliment the subjects. And what’s with the porthole vision for so long? In a special effects-driven video of a fantasy world, particularly with the amount of CGI compositing they were doing, the possibilities were limitless. Instead, they chose to make what could’ve been a 7 1/2 minute explosion of Bjorkian awesomeness kinda boring.