DINING WITH DOGS sees The Dead See's drummer Josh Paul and guitarist/vocalist Mark Key (also of BLK OPS) joined by bassist and video artist Marcos Morales. Their debut full-length The Problem With Friends boasts ten bruising tracks which fuse noise rock riffage cranked to gnarled, sludgy depths with an intoxicating, psychedelic aura.
Morales, who created the video, writes, "'Puzzled''s nihilistic lyrics trapped in the beauty of the music are meant to put you at ease with the inevitable. The lyrics, written for Mark's daughter, are about coming to terms with life's unrelenting one-way march to death.
Our poor subject wallows in the wreckage and ruin of his wasted life, all while the iridescent cosmicscape of eternity flickers above his head. If he would just look up, he would be able to take in the beauty of it, before the wondrous void ultimately consumes his brief existence.
This video was the first fully realized experiment in this style for me. Real world photography is my first and forever love, but animation brings a freedom to achieve imagery I can't yet replicate practically. My drawing is awful, as any of the lucky few who have seen my storyboard pitch vids can tell you. So, I collaborated with my friend and talented artist Walker Anders to draw a 2D emotive face I could animate rhythmically. I would fill the body and rest of the world out with 3D elements.
I was working on 'Puzzled' when Outer Heaven hit me up for the 'Putrid Dwelling' vid, and I used it to pitch and develop that style. I went even further into that realm with the Inter Arma 'Howling Lands' vid, and then got to circle back and apply some of those tricks I'd learned on 'Puzzled' before we actually put it out."
Morales, who created the video, writes, "'Puzzled''s nihilistic lyrics trapped in the beauty of the music are meant to put you at ease with the inevitable. The lyrics, written for Mark's daughter, are about coming to terms with life's unrelenting one-way march to death.
Our poor subject wallows in the wreckage and ruin of his wasted life, all while the iridescent cosmicscape of eternity flickers above his head. If he would just look up, he would be able to take in the beauty of it, before the wondrous void ultimately consumes his brief existence.
This video was the first fully realized experiment in this style for me. Real world photography is my first and forever love, but animation brings a freedom to achieve imagery I can't yet replicate practically. My drawing is awful, as any of the lucky few who have seen my storyboard pitch vids can tell you. So, I collaborated with my friend and talented artist Walker Anders to draw a 2D emotive face I could animate rhythmically. I would fill the body and rest of the world out with 3D elements.
I was working on 'Puzzled' when Outer Heaven hit me up for the 'Putrid Dwelling' vid, and I used it to pitch and develop that style. I went even further into that realm with the Inter Arma 'Howling Lands' vid, and then got to circle back and apply some of those tricks I'd learned on 'Puzzled' before we actually put it out."