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Johnny Cash's Final Studio Album Gets a Beautiful Crowdsourced Music Video

10.28.10 @ 8:49AM Tags : chrismilk, flash, interactive, johnnycash, music, musicvideo

What do you do when you have a final studio album from the late, great Johnny Cash, but no way to have the legendary man in black appear in the music video? Crowdsource it. This is what director Chris Milk has done with Cash’s song “Ain’t No Grave,” setting up a Flash-powered website that allows visitors to hand-draw individual frames of the video. The video is then dynamically pieced together from these frames, based on ratings by viewers — in this way, it is an always-changing work of art. Here’s the video in its current incarnation: More »