The Mouth Project

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This is a special one, made to commemorate the end of the Summer of Dinosaurs (a series of movie nights in the Eggware Discord). It is, of course, set to Dear Dinosaur, track 6 of Mouth Moods.

This video contains some non-graphic dinosaur violence, and apocalyptic visuals related to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Artist Statement:

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On the surface, this is just a silly reminiscence about a bunch of dinosaur media we watched over the past couple months. And that is what it is, to some extent. I used only clips from stuff we watched in the Discord server, and I tried to use everything we watched, but unfortunately I forgot about a cool old stop-motion documentary that was one of the first things we watched. I could have maybe cut out some of the Alpha And Omega footage to put it in, but I'd already rendered the video and shared it, so oh well.

On a deeper level, this video is reflective of my long-time interest in dinosaurs, especially in their extinction. Have you ever noticed that dinosaur stories are always about grief? It's hard to find a dinosaur story that doesn't at least acknowledge that they don't exist anymore, and often they are defined by their inevitable end. Not a lot focuses on how we do still have dinosaurs around today, in the form of what we call birds. The ending of the original Walking With Dinosaurs series used clips of real-life birds, and that was something I really appreciated (and used in this video).

Also, did you know the song Walk The Dinosaur is about nuclear war? I learned that while making this, and it made it even more poignant for me.