Video: Cones, ‘Outside’

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Cones (Photo by Eden Rubinpour)

As thousands have found in recent days, one cure for the quarantine blues is going outside. For the moments you’re stuck inside, though, there’s “Outside,” the new 360-degree VR video hatched by the brother duo Cones.

The song, a sighing meditation on the world’s current plight (“Nature remembering / to leave us behind”), is the first new single from Jonathan and Michael Rosen since their debut album “Pictures of Pictures,” released last September.

The video, starring an effects-laden nature scene, features coding and design by Michael and illustrations by Jonathan (who has worked on animated videos for Erykah Badu, Toro Y Moi, Eleanor Friedberger, Delicate Steve and others). “Creating the video for ‘Outside’ was an exercise in escapism,” the brothers say. “We wanted to construct an absurd and colorful dream world that we could visit any time while stuck in our homes.”

So the viewer can click-drag around the environment to get weirded out by the detached mouth singing in the sky, watch a tree that seems to shimmer with a life of its own or enjoy the animations that materialize in a hole (a well?) in ground. It’s outside, but not, and at least you won’t need sunscreen.

||| Watch: The video for “Outside”

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