Being a design major, my main influences for what I do come from the art world but also the music industry. This year, an amazing music video came out that combines both music and art. "Her Morning Elegance", by Oren Lavie, was created using a still frame method. Basically, it's the combination of thousands of still photos sliced together to make it appear as if the people and objects in the video are moving in real time. Oren Lavie spent his youth in Israel.[2] In 1997 his play Sticks and Wheels and his production of it were awarded the main prizes at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre. The production played in Tel Aviv during 1998.[3] In that year he went to London to study theatre directing at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).[4] After his graduation two of his plays were produced in various London theatres. They already contained several songs written and composed by him.
In 2001 Oren Lavie moved to New York where he tried to make a living by means of various jobs and where he focused on writing songs. When they had piled up he went to Berlin (2003) and started to do recordings, working as his own producer. His first album, The Opposite Side of the Sea, was completed in 2006; it was released in Europe in January and February 2007. In 2009, his stop motion style music video, "Her Morning Elegance," achieved significant popularity on YouTube,[5] receiving over 5 million hits.
