When it came to creating Wing Vilma's "8008" video—the latest single from his Safe By Night LP on Young Heavy Souls—multi-medium artist Keaton Fox had a few Google search terms in mind: "human", "nature" and "internet". The end product of digging through all that idiosyncratic imagery happens to also dovetail with the Detroit producer's own wide-eyed approach to music.
Or as Miles Coleman puts it, "What I love about Keaton's work is the child-like sense of wonder conveyed through the observation of, and interaction with, what she films. The song '8008' is very much about wonder. It is an adaptation of a poem I wrote to convey the wonder I feel when I see an airplane in the sky. I have always thought it is so incredible to think that when we see a plane overhead, there are potentially hundreds of people moving through the air at top speeds. I like to imagine them reading their magazines and drinking their champagne. The poem is as follows...."
Or as Miles Coleman puts it, "What I love about Keaton's work is the child-like sense of wonder conveyed through the observation of, and interaction with, what she films. The song '8008' is very much about wonder. It is an adaptation of a poem I wrote to convey the wonder I feel when I see an airplane in the sky. I have always thought it is so incredible to think that when we see a plane overhead, there are potentially hundreds of people moving through the air at top speeds. I like to imagine them reading their magazines and drinking their champagne. The poem is as follows...."
