grizzly bear + grandchildren: while you wait for the others.

Grizzly Bear can do no wrong. I was lucky enough to see them live twice this summer, and both times they killed it. Words don’t do them justice.

Teaming up with Grandchildren (a.k.a. Sean Pecknold), Grizzly Bear’s latest video for “While You Wait For The Others” is basically a tour de force of influenced yet evolved images. It harkens backward while also breaking forward and just basically kicking ass. Pecknold is the brother of Fleet Foxes’ lead singer Robin Pecknold, and (amongst a whole host of great work) they’ve knocked it out of the park thrice before with three amazing vids for Fleet Foxes: “White Winter Hymnal”, “Mykonos”, and “He Doesn’t Know Why.” The WWH video is one of my total favourites of last year…

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gabe askew + grizzly bear: two weeks.

So, Grizzly Bear kick ass. We all know that. But in addition to the offical video for “Two Weeks”, directed by the awesome Patrick Daughters, the song has also inspired the creation of some equally beautiful fan vids. The first was J Tyler Helms’ “Red Balloon” homage from a few months ago.

But now, kicking it up about a thousand notches in the fan video department, comes this staggeringly lovely video from Gabe Askew.

Here’s the thing. The video has two guys in it, but it’s not about the fact that it’s  two guys. They simply “are.”

Socially, it’s incredibly crucial for any minority to be represented in all facets of society – entertainment, journalism, mass media, politics, etc. – not by their stereotypes but by their realities. As gay people, we need to be, deserve to be, and should promote and support artists who represent our lives in simple, truthful, meaningful ways. And that’s just what this video does: it’s not about two gay guys, it’s about two people in love.

I don’t know if Askew is gay or straight, but Ed Droste, the lead singer of Grizzly Bear, is openly gay. Though the lyrics aren’t gender specific, I imagine when he wrote it he was thinking about two men. And now there’s a video that, incredibly well, brings that second layer of the song to life.

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j tyler helms + grizzly bear: two weeks.

Balloons are rad. That’s obvious, but designer J Tyler Helms has doubled the radness by created this little gem. Both an homage to Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 classic “La Balloon Rouge” and a fan vid for Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks”, I became extremely happy when I watched this. And I was happy before. It was happy overload.

In case you’re unfamiliar, J Tyler Helms is the guy that created the beautifully matched fan vid for Radiohead’s “All I Need”, matching that painfully beautiful song with footage from the 1996 French nature documentary “Microcosmos.” With 1.2 million hits for the vid on YouTube, apparently I’m not the only one that digs it.

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