To love and to laugh

I first saw this video on Craftster.com and I've been obsessed with it ever since. The Canadian duo Catherine Leduc and Matthieu Beaumont have put together this fabulous music video that uses over 700 pieces of knitted wool to tell their story. In french, tricot machine, the name of the group, means knitting machine, so it seems appropriate that an actual knitting machine would play such a prominent role in one of their videos.

Tricot Machine || Les peaux de lièvres from Dare To Care Records on Vimeo.

Here's the french and english side by side:

T'as les joues rouges boréales Tes couettes noires virent au blanc comme l'asphalte Y tombe des peaux d'lièvres sur Montréal On s'éclipse sur party La neige crisse sous nos pieds Les flocons dansent doucement Dans le vent Mais c'pas la faute du temps Si je frisonne Et nos mains se repèrent Et nos coeurs s'accelèrent On s'dit rien et pourtant On s'comprend Sur les premiers murmures De l'hiver Le désir nous harcèle On court par les ruelles Ça fait tellement longtemps qu'on s'attend La nuit s'annonce chaude et si belle T'as les joues rouges boréales Tes couettes noires virent au blanc comme l'asphalte Y tombe des peaux d'lièvres sur Montréal

Your cheeks are red, boreal Your black hairs turn to white like asphalt Hareskin is falling on Montreal We leave the party Snow crisps under our feet Snowflakes slowly dance In the wind But it’s not because of the weather That I shiver And our hands find themselves And hearts beat quicker We say nothing to each other but We understand Under the first whispers Of winter Desire hounds us We run through the back alleys We’ve been waiting for each other so long The night promises to be so warm and so beautiful Your cheeks are red, boreal Your black hairs turn white like the asphalte Hareskin is falling on Montreal

On the other end of the spectrum, there's Weird Al's latest video, Skipper Dan. I'll warn you that it's depressing--but, in an amusing way. It's about an aspiring actor who is forced to take a job at a theme park to pay the bills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNo8LvdOwSk