I have met so many incredible, creative and talented people over the past couple of years.

One of these is Christina Yee, who I had the honor of meeting last year at a very special curated event called Hatch.

Christina is a filmmaker, a passionate, warm and lovely human being. I fell in love with the short animated film she screened at the event. The film was ‘Miss Todd’, and it had won a slew of awards, including a student Academy Award.

The movie was inspired by a real person – specifically, Lilian Todd – the first woman who designed an airplane.

As I was about to release my new album ‘Messenger’, I was struck by how one of the songs on the record resonated with the film’s subject matter – and I approached Christina with an idea to take the footage of the film and make a music video. We agreed that the melancholy, but uplifting nature of the song would give new meaning to the film’s story.

The video was edited by Camille Penalver.

To find out more about the makers of the film, watch the full length version, as well as read about the painstaking process of making it, check out this site: http://www.misstoddfilm.com

Here is a new music video, shot and directed by my art director and partner in crime Missy Washingon,  aka i102fly.

It also features a good friend, an amazing guitar maker and artisan James Trussart, looking and acting mysterious.

See if you can recognize a few of the symbols in this video and what they mean. This is arguably the darkest song/video of mine to date. In the next entry I’ll disclose what this song means to me (hint: it’s not about love – or at least, not about romantic love).

This song was also featured in a major Russian motion picture ‘Ghost’. We will post a video with footage from the film, as well, sometime soon.

The song was co-written with my lovely collaborator Jonathan Paulsen.