Famed illustrator/street artist Shepard Fairey teamed up with Death Cab for Cutie bassist Nick Harmer to direct the band’s latest official video off their forthcoming LP, Codes and Keys. “Nick sent me the lyrics… and they evoked the duality of ‘home’ both as a place you inhabit, and also as a place that inhabits or traps you,” Fairey said in an explanation of the video’s concept at Boing Boing. “One’s relationship with home might be complicated, but ultimately it can be a two-way dialogue, of which we can at least affect one-way.”
As this video seeks to demonstrate, street art can be used to react against — and interact with — the city as an “impersonal, imposing, simultaneously anonymous and claustrophobic” place. Fairey adds, “I would say that a street art call to action is ‘if you don’t like your home… reshape it.’”