Craft Rock Friday with Monsters of Folk

Start a slow, spiraling descent through layer upon crafty layer in this video for Monsters of Folk's song, "Dear God".



The video was made by Lauri Faggioni, who created the awesome soft sculpture animals and artwork in the movie, The Science of Sleep. Several parts of this, especially the newspaper flowers, reminds me of the papercutting and book art of my friend, Rachael Ashe.

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