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Enjoy a few behind-the-scenes photos from the pre-production phases of the 'Everything is Fine' video. Lots more photos to come in the upcoming days, so stay tuned!

I recently had the good fortune of running into an artist who is participating in the New Museum's Triennial, which opens soon. This artist who resides in Dakar, Senegal had made a beautiful documentary about a transcontinental African voyage. She had one problem, though, she needed last minute post-production work done to complete her film. Luckily she ran into the member of Yellow Arrow whom loves post-production the most! I was able to help her finish her film and I think what we came out with in the end is very powerful and even a bit irreverent. As we were waiting for the final rendering and exports of the film, I cajoled her into helping me out with a mini-doc that I have been working on:

Some may know that there is a parasite found in the feces of cats which can cause rodents to go into heat in the proximity of cats. I have recently been obsessed by something I read which suggests the same thing can happen in human beings, and that one's personality can be altered as a result of infection. This obviously raises many interesting questions about free will, especially in light of how skilled the parasites are at attacking the pleasure centers of our brains and rewiring them. If you feel that humans are slaves to their attractions, then let's go one step further and suggest that we may be serving the needs of very tiny occupiers of our bodies--as if we weren't already. The thing that really shocked me, though, was that some of the traits that people had begun to develop upon infection were not too distant from those found in people that are said to be psychopaths via a 'psychopath test'. This is just a sort of trailer of a larger project that I would like to devote to these ideas. Enjoy (the video)!

Oh snap, it's another birthday here at Yellow Arrow Film!

One would think that with so many birthday videos being churned out in our first month of the new website launch, we perhaps have 2 or 300 employees, but not so! What we do have is a lot of people who were born within 2 weeks of one another, making you the lucky recipients of yet another auto-tuned sensation courtesy of Yellow Arrow Film!

Yellow Arrow member and designer extraordinaire Nathan Jordan was born some years ago in this great country and continues to grow in age, one year at a time. This song and video marks a step along that mystical journey.

The song was autotunified by Erik Murphy and William S. Davis utilizing state-of-the-art fan technologies to add depth and intelligence to the compostion. The video was constructed by Bradlee Crawford Hicks in record time and inspired by images believed to be close to Nathan's heart. All was done with the hopes that Nathan, and you lucky site explorers, would enjoy this minor masterpiece, so enjoy, and Happy Birthday Nathan!

Type the password "birthday3" to view the video below

On a recent trip to Paris, Erik walked around the catacombs alone for a few hours with his camera.
This short video is a compilation of some of the stills from that experience. 
It’s an ode to the millions of people buried under the streets of Paris.

Music: “Renascentia naturae” by Vakuum