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Today's  Craft Rock Friday is a celebration of colour, colour, glorious colour. Here, to sweep you away, OK Go 's "Skyscrapers".

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 .

Put your overalls on. Today's Craft Rock Friday is a big colourful double-whammy mess of paint. Get sloppy with Swedish singer Non Tiq 's video for her song "Quiet", then get schooled with OK Go 's "Three Primary Colors" video that they made for Sesame Street.

To counter the creepiness of last week's creepy Craft Rock Friday , today's music video is full of bright, cheery, poppy, rainbow colours -- and the sound to match. Plus, oodles of typography made from found objects, which always makes me happy. This is Softlightes ' "Heart Made of Sound". <p><br><br><br><br><br><br>(Thank</p> (Thanks for the link, Dan !)

When it's cold outside, I just feel like being completely surrounded by wool all the time . Or, at least that's what I was thinking until I saw this video. Today's Craft Rock Friday is wooly, wild and downright weird. There is a thing as too much knitting... That's when knitting goes bad . Here is Seventeen Evergreen 's "Polarity Song". Be careful in those thrift shops!

This video is all over the internet... and well it should be. "The Joy of Books" is a lovely, magical work by Toronto's Type Books . (Bonus points if you spot Hoopla amongst the shelves!)

There's always something really lovely about pencil crayons. Simple cylinders of distinct colours. You can hold every colour in your hand, spread them out on the table, arrange them in infinite colour combinations... and, of course, draw with them to create whatever you like, in whatever colours you want. Today's Craft Rock Friday features Melbourne musician Hudson 's song "Against The Grain". And a whole rainbow's worth of pencil crayons.

Craft Rock Friday is still on a sugar high from Halloween. This video for Kina Grannis' song, "In Your Arms" should take care of all our candy cravings... considering it's covered in jellybeans. 288,000 jellybeans, to be exact. The style of stop motion animation reminds me a little of the popular Oren Lavie video . But with more candy, of course. Also check out the "behind the scenes" video. Seriously, that is a crazy number of jellybeans, a ton of jellybean mosaics and an INSANE amount of work. P.S. Speaking of Halloween candy, also check out Jimmy Kimmel's challenge to parents: tell your kids you ate all their Halloween candy . (Thanks for the link, Linds!)

Today's Craft Rock Friday is perfect to get you in the Halloween spirit. The video for “Dead Hearts” by Dead Man’s Bones (actor Ryan Gosling 's band) follows the journey of  a little wishbone -- yes, a wishbone -- as he methodically plods along (as best a wishbone can), pulling a large wheeled metal contraption through a series unsettling lansdscapes, all populated by miniature model people. It's like a bad dream that's disturbing mostly because it's so weird...

Today's Craft Rock Friday is in a party mood. It is adorned with colourful handmade bunting, and there's even a cotton candy eating contest. Good times. "Candyfloss" by Jonny

Today's Craft Rock Friday comes to us via the Hoopla book blog . Krista Muir 's embroidery work is in Hoopla, and she's also a talented musician. This video is lovely and magical. It makes me want to decorate small enchanted houses....

I have been quite absent from the blog recently... life has just got in the way! Some of the culprits that have kept me busy of late: rock climbing, all-round summertime fun, and wedding planning (not to mention wedding crafting !). In the spirit of that the latter, here's a fun video for Craft Rock Friday . It's for the song appropriately entitled "Marriage" by Gold Panda, and features a busy little paper lantern who really knows how to get around. <p><br>(</p> (Via Indie Rock Cafe's "Royal Wedding Songs" mix .)

File under: Awesome. The scientists and engineers from National Geographic apparently watch a lot of cartoons. Inspired b ythe Pixar movie UP, they decided to see if they could really make a house fly by attaching a bunch of balloons to it. 300 eight-foot-tall weather balloons later, a 16x16 foot house is floating more than 10,000 feet up in the sky. The whole project new series that'll be on the National Geographic Channel this fall called "How Hard Can it Be?" Check out some more photos and a behind-the-scenes video on the NGC blog . A team of scientists and engineers from National Geographic, created a real-life floating house based on the Pixar movie UP. The house reached an alititude of more than 10,000 feet, pulled by more than 300 weather balloons. (Tenuously related, but cute: An UP-inspired wedding cake! )

Today's Craft Rock Friday video is best experienced first thing in the morning, to wake you up slowly and softly... a cup of coffee and a plate of eggs sunny side up, with a side of ukulele,  mouth organ, xylophone, and soft bossa nova voices. Also an adorable little dance where the band wears shirts with raindrops on them and bob up and down. Say good morning to Lullatone . (via Ladies and Gentlemen )

Top 40 meets old skool in this video for "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars. Gotta love cassette art.

Today it's a lovely Spring-like day in Vancouver. We even sat out on the patio for lunch. So it's somewhat out of place that today's Craft Rock Friday video is from a band called Winter Gloves . It'd be tough to flip through a flipbook with your mitts on though.... WINTER GLOVES 'Let Me Drive' from the album 'about a girl' Winter Gloves | Myspace Music Videos

A great pairing in my opinion! Converse is teaming up with Marimekko to produce a line of shoes with designs from the Finnish fabric superstars. The Marimekko patterns featured in the sneakers include Tarha from 1963 and Pikkusuomu from 1965 by Annika Rimala and Kirppu from 1980 by Maija and Kristina Isola. Annika Rimala’s modern and original Marimekko designs adorned the covers of international fashion magazines as early as in the 1960’s. In 1967, she was chosen as one of the most influential fashion designers in the world. Maija Isola, important reformer and forerunner in the design of printed fabrics, designed over 500 fascinating fabric prints for Marimekko through her career – one of them being Kirppu, co-designed with her daughter Kristina Isola. ~ Marimekko.com I only wish they included the iconic red floral fabric in the line... Check out Marimekko.com for more fabric fun (and cute dresses !) Plus, you just gotta love a website that lets you search by colour. (Serio...

I hope you all had a lovely Valentine's day! I was just reminded of the 'tape of love' and had to post... :)

The video for The Avett Brothers ' song, "Head Full of Doubt / Road Fill of Promise" is fascinating. Painted by hand by Jason Ryan Mitcham, the video is a single painting... which Mitcham altered 2600 times. To create 1 second of film, he had to alter the painting 10 times. There's a "making of" video, but it won't play here in Canada. Gah. The link should be in the "related links" at the end of this video though, for those of you Stateside.

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 .