TIME Music

This Music Video Was Made Entirely Out of Cardboard, Paint and Stop-Motion Chalk Art

See the clip for the Barr Brothers' "Love Ain't Enough," premiering exclusively on TIME

When folk-rock quartet the Barr Brothers set out to create a music video for their song “Love Ain’t Enough,” the band gave director-animator Dustin Grella only one rule: enjoy yourself. “After talking to Brad [Barr], he said we should experiment and that the only requirement was to have fun,” Grella told TIME over email.

That freedom allowed Grella to fulfill one of his long-gestating ideas — using the vast amounts of cardboard he had accumulated and “desperately” hoped to use in a project one day. But what started out as a plan for a one-take video featuring nothing but cardboard soon expanded into a month-long project, ultimately requiring 50 cardboard cutouts, 15 paintings and 2100 frames of animation to complete.

“After listening to ‘Love Ain’t Enough’ a few times, I really had this sense that it was a journey and I was traveling into a city or countryside that was unfamiliar, but in a peaceful, confident way — not a fearful way,” Grella says of the song, from last year’s Sleeping Operator. “The more I listened to it, the more it brought about the idea of the hero’s journey and how we are all passing through life. At so many points we find ourselves in unfamiliar terrain, only retrospectively to see them as moments of growth.”

The background behind the song — Brad Barr told Grella that he thinks about his wife and newborn child when singing it — also helped inform the visuals. “I pulled together imagery of moments in life when we are experiencing things that are so familiar — birth, death, city, countryside — yet, when experiencing it for the first time, can be one of life’s benchmarks,” Grella says. “I especially looked for moments throughout the journey where love would rear its head and poke around through our relationships with others.”

TIME France

Here’s What to Expect in the Next Issue of Charlie Hebdo

The new cover of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
The new cover of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Reuters

Cover features a depiction of Muhammad with a sign reading "Je Suis Charlie"

Details are emerging about the first issue of Paris-based satirical newsweekly Charlie Hebdo since gunmen stormed its office last week, killing 12 people in an attack that ignited worldwide shows of solidarity and fanned European fears about homegrown terrorism.

With its previous office now a crime scene, the remaining staff essentially relocated to Libération, a left-wing daily, which lent workspace to surviving staffers where they could plan it all out under increased security.

Libération began to circulate the cover image Monday evening. Drawn by veteran Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Rénald Luzier, known as Luz, the cover depicts the Prophet Muhammad, with a falling tear drop, holding a sign that reads Je Suis Charlie. That phrase, “I am Charlie,” is a nod to the hashtag that became a rallying cry of solidarity for the paper in the aftermath of the attack. Above the caricature is the phrase Tout est Pardonné, or “All is forgiven.”

The issue, to be published Wednesday, is expected to be translated into 16 languages. The New York Times, which got an inside look at the production, reports that it will feature tributes to, and old cartoons by, those who died in last week’s attack. Charlie Hebdo typically publishes 60,000 copies but, with the help of Libération, it will print 3 million copies of this issue.

“There will be a newspaper. There will be no interruption,” said editor-in-chief Gerard Briard at a press conference on Tuesday. “Freedom of the press in a democracy is an institution.”

“This isn’t an issue produced by crybabies,” Gérard Biard, the newspaper’s new editor, told France Info.

In 2011, the Charlie Hebdo office was firebombed after it announced the Prophet Muhammad would become its next editor-in-chief. In 2012, Charlie Hebdo printed a cartoon that depicted the religious figure naked, just days after the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, at the time said to result from anger over an amateur video that poorly depicted the Prophet. Last month, it released a drawing of the Virgin Mary that depicted her giving birth to Jesus. And on the day of the recent attack, minutes before the first reports of the killings began to circulate, Charlie Hebdo tweeted a cartoon of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, that jokingly wished him good health.

“A good issue of Charlie Hebdo is one that you open, one that frightens you when you see the cartoon, and then makes you laugh out loud,” the paper’s attorney, Richard Malka, added. “We won’t give in, otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense.”

The final decision Monday about the upcoming cover was an emotional one, Libération details: “Around 9:30 p.m., a small piece of paper makes the rounds, causing cries, laughs and cheers. The editor-in-chief Gérard Biard hugs Luz, who collapses. After hours marked by failed attempts, bouts of depression and writer’s block, the cover is approved. The Prophet is Charlie.”

Briard, the editor in chief, thanked new subscribers to Charlie Hebdo, specifically mentioning Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We thank all those who have subscribed, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, who on his own represents 10 subscribers,” he joked.

Wednesday’s issue will be released the same week that funerals for the victims are set to begin. French police continue to investigate the background of the two men identified as the Charlie Hebdo killers, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who were killed on Friday. And authorities are working to protect other other sensitive locations, specifically Jewish neighborhoods and schools, following Friday’s deadly attack on a kosher supermarket by Amedy Coulibaly, a man identified as a friend of the brothers.

Despite the complexities that went into putting together the issue, Malka, the lawyer, told The Telegraph, “It’s an act of life, of survival.”

With reporting by Olivier Laurent and Sam Frizell

Read next: French Intelligence Warns That There Might Be Worse Attacks to Come

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TIME Music

Watch Macklemore Parody ‘Thrift Shop’ on Sesame Street

"I'm gonna pop some trash / only got seven bags in my trash can"

Macklemore — excuse me, Mucklemore — stopped by Sesame Street to join the Grouches for a “Thrift Shop” parody that, at times, is near indistinguishable from his actual hit song.

While famous musicians have stopped by the children’s program before to teach them valuable lessons and impart important advice, the take-away from the Seattle rapper’s guest appearance is not so clear. Consider a future career as a garbageman or garbagewoman? Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty? Always keep an eye out for a bargain, even if it’s actual trash?

Either way, he deserves props for the reworked hook — “This is gross and awesome” — which manages to both sanitize the original not-so-child-friendly lyrics and embrace what some viewers are probably already thinking.

TIME Accident

Former NFL Player Says He Swam 9 Miles to Shore After Falling Off Boat

Rob Konrad, Tammy Konrad
Former Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad, left, listens while his wife Tammy, right, responds to a question during a news conference on Jan. 12, 2015, in Plantation, Fla. Lynne Sladky—AP

Konrad was fishing when a wave knocked him overboard into the ocean

A former Miami Dolphins player said Monday that he spent 16 hours swimming to shore after falling off a boat last week.

Rob Konrad held back tears during a news conference in Plantation, Fla., as he explained his unusual nine-mile swim to safety, during which he says he encountered stinging jellyfish and a shark, CNN reports.

Konrad, 38, said he was fishing when a wave hit his boat, which was set on autopilot, and knocked him overboard. He was not wearing a flotation device and decided to swim to shore, alternating between the breast stroke and backstroke, knowing he was hours away from the onset of hypothermia.

“I quickly realized I was in a real bad situation,” he said. “I made a decision that I was going to start swimming toward shore, west.”

He was almost found a twice. Konrad said approached a fishing vessel but no one saw or heard him, and he recalled that a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter, which was searching for him, flew right over him. After hitting shore early Thursday, a security guard alerted police and he was taken to a hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia, dehydration and rhabdomyolysis.

“If you’re a good swimmer and you’re faced with an emergency, you could be capable of doing what he did,” said Sid Cassidy, an accomplished distance swimmer who has trained in the area where Konrad swam.

[CNN]

TIME Music

Watch the Video for the Beastie Boys’ Nas Collaboration ‘Too Many Rappers’

The Nas collaboration is off the group's 2011 album 'Hot Sauce Committee Part Two'

It’s every fan’s dream to dig up something new about their favorite band. For one Beastie Boys enthusiast, that just came true, when they discovered that the website for film editor Neal Usatin had a previously unreleased music video on it.

The Nas collaboration “Too Many Rappers” was released on the band’s 2011 album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, but the Roman Coppola-directed music video was never distributed. Some fans didn’t even think it existed. Though the clip is fairly straightforward—the guys hit the stage, hang out and perform in a grocery store—it’s always nice to see more of the late Adam “MCA” Yauch, who died one year after the album came out.

TIME awards

Margaret Cho Isn’t Sorry About Mocking North Korea at the Golden Globes

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Tina Fey, Margaret Cho and, Amy Poehler speak onstage during the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards. Handout—Getty Images

The comedian says she has every right to make fun of the country and its leadership

Comedian and actress Margaret Cho defended her appearance Sunday at the Golden Globes, where she played a North Korean journalist-general character that some viewers deemed as racist.

“I’m of mixed North/South Korean descent — you imprison, starve and brainwash my people you get made fun of by me,” she tweeted on Monday. Cho also elaborated to BuzzFeed, saying, “I am from this culture. I am from this tribe. And so I’m able to comment on it.”

Cho worked on the character of Cho Young-ja — who mostly wanted to take a picture with Meryl Streep and share opinions on Orange is the New Black — with hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, who previously had Cho skewer North Korea on her sitcom 30 Rock. But Cho — the only Asian-American on-stage that night — did speak in a heavy accent and walk in what one critic called “an unmistakable fascist goose-step.”

“I can do whatever I want when it comes to Koreans — North Koreans, South Korean,” Cho told BuzzFeed. “I’m not playing the race card, I’m playing the rice card,” she said, echoing one of her tweets. “I’m the only person in the world, probably, that can make these jokes and not be placed in a labor camp.”

TIME Music

Listen to Kelly Clarkson’s Bold New Single, ‘Heartbeat Song’

Hear the first taste of her upcoming album

It’s been four years since Kelly Clarkson released a proper studio album, and the original American Idol is all too aware of her absence: “This is my heartbeat song and I’m gonna play it / been so long I forgot how to turn it up,” she sings on “Heartbeat Song,” the first taste of her upcoming album, Piece by Piece.

Though her absence wasn’t felt as strongly — or least as talked about — as, say, Adele’s, Clarkson is more influential in the divasphere than she perhaps gets credit for. “Since U Been Gone” ushered in the Dr. Luke era of guitar-driven power pop, and Clarkson’s work with Greg Kurstin on “Stronger” helped inspire indie darlings Tegan and Sara to seek out Kurstin and make their own power play for Top 40 with “Closer.” If anything, “Heartbeat Song” is more of a celebration of that than a hungry comeback, reminding listeners of what Clarkson has so reliably provided over the years, with just a few souped-up adjustments.

Handling production duty once again, Kurstin takes the Kelly Clarkson sound, whirls it around in a cotton candy machine and fires it into outer space — but it’s Clarkson’s arena-ready pipes that ultimately take the song to the heights it shoots for. It’s slick, sugary and incredibly catchy — everything you want in a pop song, really.

TIME Television

Watch the Trailer for House of Cards Season 3

The clip premiered during the Golden Globes

Netflix has perfect timing: after Kevin Spacey won the Golden Globe for Best Actor, Drama, the season three trailer for House of Cards aired during a commercial break. Must have been another behind-the-scenes orchestration by Frank Underwood himself, no doubt.

Like the other high-profile clip that debuted today, the video clip reveals little, but in addition to Spacey as now-President Underwood, it has plenty of intriguing shots of Robin Wright, who plays Frank’s wife and also won a Golden Globe for her work on the show last year. Talk about a power couple.

TIME Television

Watch Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Crack Each Other Up at the Golden Globes

The two were presenting an award for Best Screenplay when they lost it (in a good way)

Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader’s dark drama The Skeleton Twins isn’t the kind of movie you’d expect from the Saturday Night Alive alumni. But the two friends left their most depressing material behind them at the Golden Globes, where they presented the award for Best Screenplay (Birdman) and nearly caused one another to break.

Watching Wiig barely keep it together is more entertaining than the actual gags she and Hader prepared, but it was Margaret Cho’s North Korean character who stole the moment with this piece of advice: hurry up and make Bridesmaids 2 already!

TIME Television

Watch Jane the Virgin Star Gina Rodriguez’s Tearful Acceptance Speech

She won the award for Best Actress, Musical or Comedy

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has a history of honoring fresh, new talent during the Golden Globes, so it’s not a total surprise that star of one of television’s most promising new shows, Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez, won the award for Best Actress, Musical or Comedy.

But in a competitive category going up against Edie Falco and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Rodriguez wasn’t a shoe-in — which makes her emotional acceptance speech all the more endearing.

READ: TIME’s profile of Gina Rodriguez from last fall.

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