The music video for Boy In Static’s “Toy Baby Grand” is a lo-fi effort, built using TextEdit and animated GIF’s collected from free clip art sites. Footage for the video was captured like a performance, copying and pasting in Textedit in sync with the music. The end result draws equally from the days of early 90’s “Web Art” as well as 70’s Op Art. View above or at Vimeo. Also see the accompanying Flash game.

During its first week of release, the music video was featured by popular sites Offworld, Nerdcore, and Boing Boing. Many other magazines and blogs such as IdN and Theme followed.

Directors: Alexander Chen and Philip Stockton, April 2009.