art and video by elliott elder elliottelder.co.ukHead and Heart (lyrics)tv room2024-04-24 | Another giant feeling and nothing to do with it. My heart suggests a grand gesture while my head can only muster some long grinding art project. It had been exciting to imagine myself as the kind of person I admire -- who conducts their life with a certain ease and straightforwardness. Not the kind of person who retreats to their room to paint flowers and bowling pins. Now I’m making peace between the two.Big and Strong (lyrics)tv room2024-04-16 | You didn’t know it, but you had started to pull at a tight knot in my heart. Sitting on the floor, painting, I reimagined our conversation, changing my words and rehearsing each new diverging path. It was a welcome obsession -- it occupied my mind as I watched paint dry. I want to see you again! I’ve practiced that conversation too.So Beautiful (lyrics)tv room2024-04-08 | Between dreams of theme parks and lakes, I spent my waking hours pacing around a mostly empty apartment. As someone often fixated on the subject of beauty, there was something peaceful about the plainness of the room. It allowed my mind to wander.
I kept coming back to that night when when you laid your hand on the table an inch from mine. Was I supposed to reach a little further and hold it? You were looking at me the way I looked at you.tv room - The Big Big Deal (full EP)tv room2024-04-03 | Why did I waste so much time feeling doomed? One afternoon I woke up on the floor and thought I might already have died. Suddenly, a beautiful and unnameable feeling possessed me to paint a flower. Then a tree. Then an apple. Then a butterfly. As I taped each painting to a wall in my apartment, I remembered writing my first crush's name over and over in my notebook. I’d write it as big as it would fit on the page, or small -- as many times as I could. She was the fastest girl runner and I was the fastest boy runner. Her favorite color was blue and mine was red. With her as a reference, I knew exactly who I was.
I didn’t stop until every wall was completely covered. The final painting I placed was of two hands reaching up to the sky. I think I know what to do now. No more tears.
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0:00 Funtown USA 2:01 So Beautiful 3:58 Manifest! Manifest! 5:49 Big and Strong 7:17 Head and Heart 9:16 Dear Pet RockDear Pet Rock (music video)tv room2024-03-06 | Dear Pet Rock, I’m sorry for neglecting you. Over the last 10 or so years, I was distracted. In bad times I spent entire days in bed paralyzed by a sense of doom. In good times I’d be chasing some prospect of success, romance, or self-discovery. Through it all, I have to admit, the idea that I had outgrown you was attractive.
I was concerned with the fuzzy problems of adulthood. I didn’t think you could help. I didn’t think you needed me either. I put us both through so much unnecessary suffering. But oh well. Let’s go on a picnic.
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Thanks to Jimmy Bie for filming Thanks to Lucas for playing “young tv room” Thanks to @diveo for helping coordinate that shoot Thanks to my mom for embroidering the shirt
twitter.com/_tvroom instagram.com/_tvroom spotify: open.spotify.com/track/61y5zgAbTPeglNd7SgRsCV?si=65f26dd92360411eFuntown USA (music video)tv room2023-08-16 | Waiting in line for the roller coaster, I was reconciling the fear that I would die with the inextricable thrill of it. By the time the restraint pressed against my heart, I had accepted death. And for better or worse I knew exactly what it would look like. I had spent the previous night watching tragedy after tragedy online with a morbid fixation.
I didn’t realize how profound my experience at the amusement park had been until years later as an adult, contemplating my death once again. Spending hours online figuring out exactly how it would happen. The simultaneous fear and excitement were so familiar to me. I had already made up my mind at Funtown.Manifest! Manifest! (music video)tv room2022-09-14 | Do you believe in manifestation? Put simply, manifestation is the practice of transforming your desires into realities. For children there is no distinction between the two -- playing games of cops and robbers, choosing dream jobs and best friends forever. A past life spent with friends and family, at malls and fairs, on trampolines and see-saws -- I remember it viscerally, in flashes between fast food dinners and warranty scams.
Resigned and alienated in adulthood, living through memories, I choose to believe in the power of the mind. I don’t want to do my chores. I don’t want to wash dishes or get haircuts or read emails. By faith in my imagination, between naked walls, I manifest something else.The Great State of Maine: Part 6 of 6tv room2021-11-05 | HUGE THANKS to Ross Cunningham for acting and my friend Jimmy Bie for coming up to Maine to help organize and film.
I grew up in Maine and moved back after college to find a job. I found one, but I was basically waking up every day exhausted, responding to angry emails, and going to bed. I started working on the song "Lake Attitash" in July 2020. I got really emotional thinking about my childhood here and in contrast how much I disliked my new life in the same place. That was the initial idea, and then it evolved into this big concept thing with the fake tv show and website. By far the biggest project I've ever done and the response was amazing so THANKS EVERYONE.Step On Bug (music video)tv room2021-11-05 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.
STREAMING: https://smarturl.it/tvroom-TheGreatStateThe Great State of Maine: Part 5 of 6tv room2021-11-04 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.Take A Hike (music video)tv room2021-10-15 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.
STREAMING LINKS: https://smarturl.it/tvroom-TakeAHikeThe Great State of Maine: Part 4 of 6tv room2021-10-14 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.You Didnt See Me Cry (music video)tv room2021-10-01 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.
STREAMING: https://smarturl.it/tvroom-didntSEEmeCRYThe Great State of Maine: Part 3 of 6tv room2021-10-01 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.The Little Birdwatcher (music video)tv room2021-09-17 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.
STREAMING LINKS: https://smarturl.it/tvroom-birdwatcherThe Great State of Maine: Part 2 of 6tv room2021-09-17 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.Lake Attitash (music video)tv room2021-08-27 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.
STREAMING LINKS: https://smarturl.it/tvroom-LakeAttitashThe Great State of Maine: Part 1 of 6tv room2021-08-27 | In July 2020, I was commissioned by the Attitash Multimedia Commission -- an arts program run by the Attitash Watershed Association -- to create a 5-song EP celebrating the beauty of Lake Attitash and the surrounding area. On August 8 2021, the music, along with videos I had made, were presented in a half-hour special on MPBN.
Now that I have the distribution rights, I'm releasing the EP with DESKPOP and uploading each TV segment and music video here one by one. All 5 songs will be out November 5 2021. For more info visit attitash.org.tv room - Famous (ft. Slyleaf)tv room2020-04-10 | vocals by Slyleaf twitter.com/Slyleaf youtube.com/slyleaf twitch.tv/slyleaf patreon.com/slyleaf