The Making Of YOUNG LOVE - Chapter 1

This week, NLX and crew picked up the award for... Best Music Video at the LIC Film Festival!

An unexpected but amazing honor.  

Watching all the other videos and artists collectively discussing how and why they made a video was really inspiring. It was like AA for indies and turns out I fell off the wagon... :)

I was asked about how YOUNG LOVE came to be and in telling the audience, I was re-inspired by how it was made...  without any big budget, but with a whole lot of heart. So I thought I'd take an opportunity to share in a few upcoming blogs a series called 'The Making Of YOUNG LOVE'.

Enjoy...

The Making Of YOUNG LOVE... Chapter 1

In reflection, the making of YOUNG LOVE seems like a slow and steady climb to completion. It was a labor of love... a sweet, sweet love... a naïve love ... an anything is possible sort of love. A Young Love.

Making a visually stimulating video was instinctually a natural progression for NLX, but unless I could, with complete confidence, execute a vision without compromise, I held off. It was added to the list of to dos. But this time was different.

Jump (rope) back a year...

While performing my ‘living the dream gig’ in a hotel bar in NYC, with microphone/keyboard cables tangled up and in plain view of a patron's way... I was inspired...

Let me back it up even further... A man, let's call him Mr. X, seemed pretty focused on just throwing back a few stiff drinks, and set on forgetting his day, didn’t seem too pleased to be forced into some indie artist’s original songs of hate and devotion thru a portable PA.

Not sure I blamed him... but I tried in an unsuccessful attempt to joke with him... gently coax him to jump rope with the cables... to double dutch. I guess I was trying too hard to make this guy not loathe the next hour of his life... but in doing so, I was hit with the idea of turning these ratty old lifelines that are my quarter inch cables into skipping ropes.

Thus was born YOUNG LOVE.

    I like coffee
    I like tea
    I like NLX
    So jump with me!

To Be Continued...

NLX
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