Just came across this on YouTube. It's a video for Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard's song, "To Be Objectified." In it, quirky pop songwriter and illustrator Lewis creates a time-lapsed, large scale illustration while his performance is rotoscoped into a comic book cartoon. The entire thing is produced by Lewis himself and is pretty cool. The song is from Lewis' forthcoming album, 'Em Are I, due out in May on Rough Trade Records.
This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2009.