In the spirit of celebrating non-AI creative work; it’s the anniversary of this music video, in which I held my breath for 4.5 minutes in order to perform the entire song underwater in one shot. No FX, no splicing of takes. It took me 3 months of training to get my breath hold up to a stationary 5 minutes in preparation for the shoot (don’t worry, the drowning is acting, I wasn’t running out of air.)
It’s a slow-paced video. But the focus on a gradual buildup of surreal dread is meant to activate mirror neurons in the watcher, the same ones that turn on when you see someone yawn. I wanted you, over the course of 4 minutes, to slowly drown with me. To experience the feeling that birthed this song in the first place.
(Full thing on YT, it’s called Mabúl)