N.A.S.A. feat Tom Waits & Kool Keith - ＂Spacious Thoughts＂

What this video is

Released in November 2009 to promote N.A.S.A.'s debut album 'The Spirit of Apollo' (Anti- Records, February 2009), the video sits at the intersection of the late-2000s blog music era and an animated music video renaissance enabled by accessible hybrid 2D/CG pipelines. The N.A.S.A. project as a whole was a curatorial endeavour pairing Squeak E. Clean and Ze Gonzales with an extraordinary roster of musical and visual…

Why it matters

A landmark in animated hip-hop music video production, 'Spacious Thoughts' demonstrates that abstract character animation could serve as a legitimate visual language for hip-hop in the late-2000s web era. It bridges underground hip-hop, avant-garde animation, and art-world visual culture, and…

The director

Fluorescent Hill is a Montreal-based animation art collective comprised of Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie, founded in 2002. Ste-Marie holds a BFA in Film Animation from Concordia University. The duo has directed internationally acclaimed music videos,…