Synopsis

The video unfolds as a handmade stop-motion collage in which paper-cut figures, animals, natural spaces and encroaching structures shift in rhythm with ODESZA's edit. Images of environmental damage and expanding urban development are set against moments of care for the natural world and its creatures. Rather than following a conventional character-driven plot, it builds an impressionistic warning: industrial growth and human intervention steadily overwhelm the landscape, while the tactile, visibly assembled animation gives the ecological message a fragile, personal quality.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released on March 8, 2013, several months after "Cover Bombs (ODESZA Edit)" first appeared on ODESZA's 2012 album *Summer's Gone*.

• "Cover Bombs" is an ODESZA edit of a song by Nomadic Firs, rather than an original ODESZA composition. The remix was also associated with Nomadic Firs' remix collection *Wild*.

• The animation was produced as a stop-motion film using handmade, physically assembled materials. Its cut-and-paste construction is central to the video's handmade visual identity.

• The film was later recognized with the Founder Recognition Award at the Josiah Media Festival.

• The video's ecological themes include environmental destruction, the expansion of cities and concern for animals. Its handmade style reinforces that message by contrasting delicate natural imagery with the force of industrial development.