Alma Har'el, Alphonse Mucha, my world goes in circles, I smile

As seen in my last post, I am now an ardent fan of Alma Har'el. This discovery made today amazing, but the best part was seeing how wonderfully life can overlap itself sometimes. I was reading this interview about how she did the Elephant Gun video (SO GOOD), and I came across this part:

SRO: What inspirations helped you design and create the shoot for ‘Elephant’?

Alma: After meeting with Ben in NY, I went to Israel and stayed in my mother’s house for 2 weeks; I listened to the song late at night and dreamt what it would look like. I knew it would have a dance scene, but that the dancers would be tipsy and a little drunk— it’s that feeling at the end of the night when you feel you have a lot in common with everybody who’s in the room, whether you know them or not. Then Zach and I spoke on the phone about it and I asked him: “Zach, who is singing the song?” and he said - “a safari hunter”. That’s how it started.

It went through a few changes— In the beginning I wanted to shoot in a bar; then I decided on the space covered with old maps of the world, and I really got a handle on how I wanted it to look. The color palette was all coming from that and from Mucha paintings.

This was great, because I was just about to do a post on Alphonse Mucha. I even had this website about him open on my desktop as I read this interview. So I guess it's no wonder I was feeling the Elephant Gun video so much.







I'm typically a fan of art nouveau - and man, he's just the bee's kness. A classic! Offical website here.

I also really love this idea of decorating the walls with old maps. I hate modern maps, though. Maybe I should start collecting old maps and one day decorate my house like the Elephant Gun video...