john lennon

most people at some point in their life have some sort of beatles obsession or at that an obession for one of the beatles.

for a little while i was obsessed with controversy and people's view's on john lennon, i used to spend hours browsing youtube for old john lennon interviews and footage.

this is one of my favorite video's i've found and the animation that go's with it is pretty awesome too.



the story behind the video go's a little like this:

"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message."

not electric records

xo