Article Focus: Creative COW Magazine's Music Video issue featured a look at the making of Poets of the Fall's "Carnival of Rust," one of the most imaginative music videos we have seen. Created in Helsinki, Finland by director Stobe Harju and director of photography Eki Halkka, you can read about the making of "Carnival of Rust" in our free Music Video issue, and here in this magazine extras page you will find links to the videos, interview podcasts, more on the band, their music, as well as the music videos of Stobe and Eki.
Thank you for your interest in the music video production work of Stobe Harju and Eki Halkka, and the music of Poets of the Fall, as featured in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Creative COW Magazine. On this page, we have linked you to several resources and destinations for more on both Poets of the Fall, as well as Stobe Harju, the director of many of their music videos.
The following video for Poets of the Fall's "Carnival of Rust" was directed by Stobe Harju and was featured in Creative COW Magazine's Jan/Feb '08 issue discussing much of what went into its design and construction...
Another of the great videos Stobe directed for Poets of the Fall, was the following video created for "Lift," from the band's 2005 album, "Signs of Life."
THE MAKING OF "LIFT" PODCAST
In 2005, CreativeCOW.net featured the making of the "Lift" video in the Creative COW Podcast. To listen to the episode's interview with director of photography, Eki Halkka, you can click here to listen to our interview with Eki.
Great to see Poets of the Fall gaining ground in the world's music arena
The first time that I heard Poets of the Fall on their then-new song "Lift" from 2005, I asked that they be interviewed on the Creative COW podcast because they were quite good and their use of technology on the Lift video was one of the first instances of HDV being used to push the format to its limits. Stobe Harju and Eki Halkka have created some great videos over the years and it's nice to see that Helsinki, Finland's Poets of the Fall themselves have continued to grow and are now a platinum selling act. When we first interviewed them back in 2005, none of it had happened yet and they have now grown into one of Europe's great bands, with tours that take them all over the world. We like to think that in a tiny way, Creative COW assisted their ascent by getting them in front of the tens of thousands who learned about them from Creative COW. One of these days, they may even come to California, and if they do, I'll be the gray-headed guy off in the back smiling but looking remarkably like he doesn't belong there. Don't let looks deceive you. ;o)
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