The "Tunstallator": wacky gizmocentric new KT Tunstall video from Chris Bran

Filmmaker and digital designer Chris Bran, who I first encountered in the context of his work with Radiohead (remember the Vapour Brothers "blips" circa Kid A?), has produced a lovely new video for the recording artist KT Tunstall.

About the new video, KT tells Boing Boing...

I think The Tunstallator is genius; I'm a big fan of Chris's comedy work, and Mr. Fritter seems like a really nice man. I had an amazing time performing for the video and loved having my head inside a box for 8 hours.

And Chris says,

KT asked if I could make something for YouTube. I came up with the obsessive fan idea and went to work. After several visits to my local hardware store I had accumulated enough wood, sacking, string and plastic T-rex claws to build 'The Tunstallator'

KT had no idea what I was up to and only saw it when it was completely finished. She nearly fell off her chair when she saw the egg whisk/T-Rex claw combo. I took this to be a compliment.

I still have 'The Tunstallator' and spend many an evening operating it along to both her albums back to back. I think I've turned into Mr. Fritter (BA/BSc).

"MARVEL at the amazing animatronic wizardry! GASP at the technological stringocity!"

[#1 posted by dougrogers , May 19, 2008 3:10 PM]

JEEE-Knee us!!!!

[#2 posted by Feral Fish , May 19, 2008 3:44 PM]

Forget all the work that might have been put into all the mechanisms and setup, the dinosaur claw sold me. Win.

[#3 posted by Nur , May 19, 2008 4:48 PM]

Wow, the things you can do with computers nowadays :P.

That's a big change from her earlier work too.

[#4 posted by Keir , May 20, 2008 1:54 AM]

The Brans have a great sense of humour, as also seen in their Chieftan Mews character for Radiohead. Years ago I was looking at their website and it said like 'for information contact..' and their email address, no indication of what sort of information, so I emailed them 'Dear Vapour Brothers, please send me some information' which I think is a pretty subtle joke, and I got a reply before 9am the next day, saying 'Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors' which delighted me, whichever one it was totally got the spirit of my email!