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Video of the Week: Clean It Up
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet.
Germaphobes and clean-freaks will appreciate this short-and-sweet one minute clip that follows a legion of paper lips as they clean the landscape around a run-down house. Goons, a street artist from Chicago, creates this strange sequence using paper and stop-motion. I didn't realize it was a commercial for Orbitz chewing gum until the end, but, these days, isn't everything a commercial? Get inspired to finally clean your moldy bathroom below!
If you have any crazy sexy cool videos of your own, share them with us and we'll consider them for future installments of Video of the Week!
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