#tharsis sleeps

[damnedbluecollartweeker]

[worshipforthesun]

THRONE - THARSIS SLEEPS

[nowness]

Ones to Watch in experimental film

Nicos Livesey: Tharsis Sleeps

[thevisualartofmetal]

Throne "Tharsis Sleeps". Directed by Nicos Livesey & Tom Bunker. An epic animation made entirely with embroidery, following the band Throne as they travel to terraform Mars and save planet Earth! "The original inspiration was metal band patches. I was making band patches on a sewing machine that could embroider with one needle. I remembered from when I was seven or eight years old, I’d seen an embroidery machine at a boat show and that always stuck in my mind. It mesmerised me and looked crazy, how it could embroider anything. When I was doing the band patches, I realised it was totally animate-able – I could embroider it frame by frame and it would look mental." - Nicos Livesey

[doomedandstoned]

This one deserves another share! It’s THRONE with “Tharsis Sleeps” (from the album 'Where Tharsis Sleeps' - below) and dig this wicked vid! A lot of creative folks worked on it, too many to list here, so I recommend clicking the YouTube link to check out the team behind this boss effort! And yes, that is real embroidery.

-BillyGoat-

[awesomemerchandise]

Embroidery is awesome... so much so, Throne have used it for this rad video! Thanks for the heads up explainlater! 

[lookoutlandmine]

Embroidered stop motion music video. Everything about this is amazing.

[supersonicart]

World's First Ever Embroidered Music Video Uses Over 45 Million Stitches.

In the video for British heavy metal band Throne's song "Tharsis Sleeps," the directors Nicos Levesey (also a member of Throne) and Tom Bunker went all out and created the first ever, frame by frame stitched video.  The animation and sewing took several months to do and many all-nighters using over three thousand embroidered "frames" and over 45 million stitches.  Check out the colorful, incredible video/work of art below:

Throne's Website

Nicos Levesey

Tom Bunker

Via Dazed