40 days of art

17

Hump Day

I was going to sleep one night, and I just started singing “Hand down my pants I flick the bean” to myself. I thought that line was a banger, so I shot up, ran over to a piece of paper, and jotted that down. That was the seed of my song Hump Day (produced by KEISHH) The next day I finished my little ditty about diddling myself. I met up with April a few months later and asked if she wanted to work on another music video, where a bunch of different women are having orgasms.

This video was self funded, so of course it was super DIY. Mary Colston helped me with the art direction. I wanted to make a wall of paper vulvas. Unfortunately, the only origami vulva content on youtube was made by a creepy man who was not so great at explaining things, so we had to watch it 20 times before we understood how to do it.

Since I had no budget for a location, we shot it at my house and just taped colored paper to my living room wall. I have had some really down roommates, because 80% of all the videos I have made have been shot in my house due to lack of budget. Living with me, you will come home to the whole apartment as a video zone —but there are some delicious craft food services (also made by me), so maybe it was ok? Thanks Carmen for being so cool about the many art projects going on at our house.

Claire made some really sick and pointy nails for the video and Max shot it. Thanks to everyone who starred in the video. You all did such a great job.

The strange thing about syncs is how music supervisors discover older music and put it in their shows. 2 years after Hump Day was released, it was featured in HBO’s Insecure and 4 years later, it made it onto Netflix’s Big Mouth