06 Nov Turnover – Still In Motion (or Mowing Heaven’s Lawn)

CREDITS

Director: @masonmercer
Producer: @evanmcgillivray
DP: @ianhurdle
AC: @lunathewildiris
PA: @will_henryyyy
Editor: @anthonymiralles
Color: @natashawong@rcocolor
Label:@runforcover
Special thanks to @marni.z@panavisionofficial Tom Chiari and @nickholman
And thanks to my boys in Turnover for opening so many doors for me over the years.

ABOUT

Premiered on The Fader [https://www.thefader.com/2019/11/06/turnover-still-in-motion-video-premiere]

I talked with Austin about the meaning of Still In Motion. He told me the song is a reflection on the balance of living in the present, the possibilities of the future, and romanticizing the past. I’m not sure whether he studies it or not, but Austin has always seemed very zen-like to me.

I’ve read a lot of books about Zen. They usually talk about finding zen in the practice and mastery of activities not directly related to zen.

Lawn-mowing is not the first thing that comes to mind when discussing zen. Every summer growing up, my brother and I worked for our grandpa mowing countless lawns across the many small towns that surrounded us in the Ozarks. I always liked mowing, it helped me clear my mind. I’d be chewing gum, listening to music, and would eventually completely zone out while mowing. I realize now that this was an infantile state of Zen

This video is dedicated to my grandpa Bill Barnett

The tagline I used while making the Still In Motion video was “mowing heaven’s lawn.”
The idea was that a normal blue-collar worker had somehow landed the job of a lifetime, mowing heaven’s lawn.
It’s an enormous task, but he is entirely focused on completing the task at hand. Angels and visions of future beauty surround him. Maybe they inspire him to keep working hard, or maybe he doesn’t even notice them, either way he isn’t distracted in the slightest. He’s got work to do.