Taking a late night break to flip through some of my favorite magazines. I’ve been a huge fan of Michel Gondry for a while now. He initially rocked my mind when he did the “Lucas with the Lid Off” video back in 1994 (and if you didn’t know, he did that entire music video in camera) – THEN Beck’s “Deadweight” in 97… He officially became one of my favorite directors when he co-wrote and directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – One of my all time favorite movies. But it was the White Stripes “Fell In Love With a Girl” which made my heart explode with cinematic curiosity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRDi67G0Siw&feature=player_embedded

It’s absolutely incredible and when you read this, you will appreciate it much more.. He says:
“I really like the basic-ness of the music – one voice, one guitar and one drum. I like this concept, and I thought it was very close to the primary color of the Lego blocks. We shot a very basic video of the band, we edited it and then we had a program that pixelized the video, roughly the size of Lego blocks and then we printed each frame [25 frames per second] on paper. Then we had an animation team building up Lego blocks to match each frame. Then we reshot each of those frames on a film camera. We didn’t have enough Legos to do more than five frames at a time, so after five frames were shot [the Legos] were demolished to build the next five frames.”

Amazing and brilliant. I sometimes forget that Rome wasn’t built in a day. That it takes time for the incredible things to develop.
Take your time and pretty things will follow – don’t give up.