Kina Grannis Made Jelly Beans "In Your Arms"

After picking up the award for "Best Web-Born Artist" at MTV's O Music Awards, the YouTube starlet Kina Grannis has recently made headlines with her colorful stop-motion jellybean video for "In Your Arms," one of the stand out tracks from her album "Stairwells." The video accumulated over 2 million views and the stop-motion meets pointillism clip takes us through the timeline of her relationship. Watch it after the jump and find out exactly how this idea was brought to life over the course of two years!
Music videos need to be memorable if they want to stand out from the crowd in the 3 minutes of play time they usually get. Some videos succeed as a result of their concept, others triumph because of a catchy hook. But sometimes, the concept and hook form a perfectly symbiotic relationship, making music video magic. The 26-year-old Japanese American singer songwriter' sweet video for "In Your Arms," is one of those rare videos to nail both, as the catchy song is backed by a awe-inspiring video made entirely from using hundred thousand jelly beans!
This Greg Jardin-directed video is a testament to the vibrant visuals that can be made by extreme patience and a quarter of a million candies. The song is a little too sugary, but the effect is really sweet. The video is a wonderfully unique and stunning concept following on from the success of her previous imaginative and creative video ideas. The video is particularly astonishing, because itself made entirely from Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, 288,000 of them to be exact and took over 22 months and 1357 hours to make, comprising of a total of 2460 frames. Anything like that is at least worth 3 minutes of your time.
It of course, features one Grannis, who playfully finds her way through an array of colorful and magical scenery while her beautifully charming vocals are heard floating over the accompanying acoustic guitar and violin. The fun and innovative visuals created for "In Your Arms" ensures that the video is not just designed to be a remarkably memorable but also a real sweet treat for the eyes. "I want to make a video that is very unique and really creative and feels hand-made," Grannis said. "Something that stands on its own and people want to show other people." Well, mission accomplished!

Kina Grannis | "The One You Say Goodnight To"

Acoustic pop artist Kina Grannis reveals her latest music video for her current single, "The One You Say Goodnight To," from the re-release of her 2010 debut album "Stairwells." The track was recently reviewed as "sweetly hooky" in a recent Entertainment Weekly feature, promising to leave you "humming this song for the rest of the day." As usual, Grannis's signature charm, beauty, humble, fun and elegance shine through in this sweet, infectious video, which finds she playing an adult version of hide-and-seek with her potential love.
Grannis soared to fame via YouTube. She entered and won a singing contest for Doritos which lead to her being featured in a commercial during the Superbowl, and received a Interscope Records contract in 2008. The Youtube chanteuse is a very relatable young spirit, who's charmed her way to nearly 60 million pageviews with songs like "Valentine" and "World In Front Of Me." The 25-year-old makes sweetly sung, acoustic tunes. "The One You Say Goodnight To" is the follow-up single to "Valentine," which has also amassed nearly 9-million views on Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter's YouTube Channel.
After kicking off the lilting, acoustic track with her band in a bucolic field, Grannis retreats to begin the metaphorical dance with an Abercrombie model dressed as a dork. Anyway, Grannis gets sold out by her bandmate and begins a cat-and-mouse courtship game, forcing our Clark Kent look-alike to make exasperated faces and run around a bevvy of picturesque spots Norman Rockwell would have painted. You can probably guess how this one ends, but it does teach a valuable and eternal lesson about courtship: The harder it is to attain, the more guys want it.
Now, Grannis proves she's more than just "that Doritos girl" in her newest video, featuring her friends Chester See, Keith Tutt II and Derek Rock. All she needs is a smile, a guitar, and a soothing voice to effectively captivate the hearts and minds of thousands of fans all over the world. The love song is a catchy song with a good beat and melody. It offers a storyline where Chester See, a handsome fella as the dude who keeps missing her, and desperately seeks out Grannis in the country side woods, as she sings and plays her guitar. It's a beautifully shot video incorporating the environment to enhance the feel of the song.