Craft Rock Friday with Feist

This magical video for Feist's "Honey Honey" features puppets created by Calgary's Old Trout Puppet Workshop. It's quite strange and haunting, much like the song. I really like that they included the puppeteer's hands in parts of the video - it adds another layer to the story and draws attention to the medium.

The video won the 2009 Juno Award for Best Video. There's a good article about the 'making of' on Canada.com.

I can't embed the video (gah!), so head on over to YouTube to watch it.

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Craft Rock Friday with Josh Ritter

What's more romantic than the love between an archeologist and her mummy?

Awww.



The video for Josh Ritter's song, "The Curse", was created by the band's drummer, Liam Hurley, who also happens to be a puppeteer. Multi-talented!

You can read more about the making-of from Josh on NPR's All Songs Considered blog.

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