by Nick Thomas
If you think animated music videos aren't cool, you probably haven't caught Yannick Puig's I lived on the Moon, yet. Blogger's around the world are raving over this ethereal, black and white fantasy video, set to the music of new French band, Kwoon. The video had been viewed some hundreds of thousands of times, according to Puig, a French computer-graphic artist now living in Valencia, Spain (see www.yanim.net).
Puig's curious lunar world inhabited by jellyfish, manta rays, flying snakes and three-tailed monkeys is based on the lyrics of Kwoon band leader, Sandy Lavallart, who spins a magical tale about a father teaching his son to pursue his dreams. Puig added his own touch, lifting images from a fantasy comic book he...
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