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Switchfoot Post “Awakening” Video

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Switchfoot‘s new self-funded video for “Awakening” can be seen below. You can also read about the making of the video below.

We had a lot of fun making this video. We actually made this video on our own dime, with our talented good friend Brandon Dickerson, who made two of our earlier videos. We also had the incredible opportunity of working with three extremely talented and funny actors: Tony Hale (Stranger than Fiction, Arrested Development), Adam Campbell (Epic Movie), and Jayma Mays (Heroes). The most challenging and time-consuming portion of the video was the creating of the “animated” television. To create this effect, we printed out each individual frame (24 frames per second — that’s a lot of frames!), and then hand-ripped each person from each frame, placing each frame sequentially after the other to re-create the action (think claymation with photos!). This technique has actually never been done before, and took a total of 8 days, with 10 to 20 people working around the clock (some of you even stopped by to help out!).

Tonight On DJ Rossstar

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The Orangeburg Massacre (Pluto Records) will be studio guests tonight (Wednesday April 11th 2007) on DJ Rossstar’s Punk Rock Show from 7-8pm PST (10-11pm EST). Foreverinmotion (One Eleven Records) will be calling in during the show for a live phone interview as well. You can listen to the show on idobiradio.com. If you have questions for the guests, send them to the screen name: staridobi

Thursday night’s show (April 12th 2007) will feature a studio interview with Powerspace (Fueled By Ramen) and a phone interview from Limbeck. (Doghouse Records)

DJ Rossstar has been running the most listened to online radio show for emo, pop-punk, punk and rock since 2002.Ԛ  Band such as Say Anything, I Am Ghost, The Matches, Gym Class Heroes, Saosin, Panic at the Disco and Cute Is What We Aim For did some of their first interviews ever on the show.Ԛ  The show brings you the best upcoming artists and allows fans to interact with their favorites.Ԛ  Recent interviews include From First To Last, Sugarcult and Permanent Me .

Find out more about DJ Rossstar at http://www.myspace.com/djrossstar and http://djrossstar.buzznet.com