Our Grand Prize Award-Winning entry for the &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/explainia/">https://www.flickr.com/groups/explainia/</a>"&gt;Explain IA&lt;/a&gt; Contest. Shot and directed by Nate Bolt and Kate Nartker who make these weird videos for fun as &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://beepshow.com">http://beepshow.com</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Beep Show&lt;/a&gt;. This one was for for &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://boltpeters.com/">http://boltpeters.com/</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Bolt | Peters&lt;/a&gt;.  Starring Audrey as "daughter" and &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.twitter.com/xepht">https://www.twitter.com/xepht</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Frances James&lt;/a&gt; as "mother." 
<p><b>Huge thanks</b> to everyone that helped. Especially Cyd Harrell for loaning us her amazingly talented 5yr old daughter Audrey. And thanks to Audrey for being amazing. Our special guest star Lou Rosenfeld, and to Jesse James Garrett for his thoughts at IA Summit '09. Script by the esteemed &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/tonytula">https://twitter.com/tonytula</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Tony Tulathimutte&lt;/a&gt; wh is laughing, always laughing. Thanks to &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.pauloctavious.com/">http://www.pauloctavious.com/</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Paul Octavious&lt;/a&gt; for remote art direction. The lego Falling Water belongs to &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/lauraglu">https://twitter.com/lauraglu</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Laura G&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/mwearhouse">https://twitter.com/mwearhouse</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Men's Wearhouse&lt;/a&gt;. Intro Music is La Traviata Libiamo, purchased royalty-free from Stock Music, and Rick only lasts nine seconds, which should fall within fair use. Ask Girl Talk about that. 
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<b>Production Details</b>. Shot on a Canon 5D Mk2, with a seamless backdrop, and two 300w neutral lights - one in a soft box. Edited in After Effects CS4 and iMovie '09. Kate made the characters  from blu-tack of different colors, &amp; other types of art supply store clay.
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