We here at the Resource Exchange are always thrilled to see seemingly disparate salvaged items here combined to create great art!
Chrissy Jones, a local artist, videographer and re customer recently shared the music video she made for the band Sagan Youth’s song “Surface”. Chrissy explains how The Resource Exchange was integral to her process; “I’m adamant about organic special effects and no cgi, so I bought a few of your plates of glass and shot chemical reactions for hours at a time to get the effect of a living galaxy. I found a really cool sunset matte board, fake snow, and shiny foil paper to shoot planet scenes. I also found a bag of white modeling clay that I used to sculpt a face onto the robot”. Chrissy’s ability to integrate all the different materials is apparent in the seamlessly blended elements of the music video.
“I really appreciate the store – I never have anything in mind but I always find something that I just know I can put to clever use.” Clever indeed! We are thrilled to be able to provide the necessary materials to local artists like Chrissy to create such stellar work and we can’t wait to see what else Chrissy and other re shoppers do! Keep ’em coming!
You can see more of Chrissy’s work on her Vimeo page.