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Seventeen Evergreen Video - "Haven't Been Yourself"

Encyclopedia Pictura, the production crew that crafted the Grizzly Bear knock out "Knife,", also lent their eccentric charms to Seventeen Evergreen's debut video, for the song "Haven't Been Yourself." The tune's tempo-shifting space rock is visualized with a flesh-melting orgy in the forest (what else?), with an epididymal lake that ascends to the heavens, in stalagmite formation, before returning to the verdant earth below and separating again into its component droplets of humanity. Obviously.

And here's some insider info: The liquid they used for the vid shoot is called ferrofluid, which becomes strongly polarized in the presence of a magnetic field. In order to get the money shot, they needed a camera that filmed at 50K frames/second. So there you go! Try that at home, kids. Great tune, totally bizarre (and awesome) vid. More confirmation that those EP guys are pretty far out there.

Hear Seventeen Evergreen's LP Life Embarrasses Me On Earth here.

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For those interested in ferrofluid (which you should be, because it's amazing) check out Sachiko Kodama's website:
http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/protrudeflow/index.html
Not in english, but the videos of the sculptures will make your jaw drop.

Posted by: Josh at 02/26/07 8:45 PM | Reply
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those guys have listened a little too much to pavement

Posted by: Pablo at 02/27/07 8:56 AM | Reply
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I hear a lot of other great influences also.... which is obviously a good thing.....
Hopefully one day some young kids will have listened to too much of seventeenevergreen, we can then also enjoy a fresh take on what the cycle of creativity gives us in this musical world of ours!!

Posted by: andrew linton at 02/27/07 2:38 PM | Reply
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These guys are already hometown heroes in San Fran. One of the few local bands who can put their own stamp and psychedelia without wearing tye-dye t-shirts or smelling like Deadheads. Also have a very cool live stage presence but without being too-cool-for-school scenster hipsters.

I think the guy who did the video must be the same dude who designed the cover for the S.E. album -- which is a total classic. Life Embarrasses Me... is the first sign of the apocalypse. I see a new heaven and a new earth. And Seventeen Evergreen will be playing the after party..

Posted by: Vigilante at 03/01/07 2:50 PM | Reply
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Fabulous video, reminding us to think. Not just a pimpandho, sullenboysinging, prettygirlcrying, divapopstarconfessing.
Something fresh.
Imagine all the different definitions to be given/argued/ignored/presumed and quite over analyzed, from this beautiful video!
Oh, there's hope yet.
Way to go boys :)


"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
-e.e. cummings

Posted by: meg at 03/02/07 4:31 PM | Reply
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unique video, I love how unpretentious it is, kind of like the band....i first heard "life embrasses me on planet earth" - Seventeen Evergreen's debut album, this time last year. I was snowed in a cabin in Tahoe, the fire crackling, huge snow flakes falling - encapsuled in an otherworldly space/time and Seventeen Evergreen helped me get there and back again...

Posted by: Laura at 03/02/07 7:15 PM | Reply
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I was reminded of Ann Margaret writhing around in pork 'n' beans. I don't think there's a connection, but I enjoyed this video just as much as I did that twisted scene in "Tommy."

Posted by: Mr. Ed at 03/06/07 9:16 PM | Reply
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Great track and album!

Love the overall look of the video's scenery, which sorta shimmers like some kinda backlit motion sign you'd see hanging on the knotty pine-paneled wall of a dive bar.

I kept expecting to see the Hamm's Beer bear come paddlin' by in a birch bark canoe.

Posted by: JIMWICh at 11/14/07 7:15 PM | Reply
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