Phenakitoscope

I found this fantastic video online from a Japanese band called SOUR. After successfully crowd-funding their campaign on Kickstarter and GreenFunding (a Japanese equivalent), the band released their latest music video with the help of directors Masashi Kawamura and Kota Iguchi. The band filmed 189 spinning CDs as phenakistoscopes to create their entire animated video, “Life is Music.” 
The song is about “the circle of life, and how music is its rhythm maker,” say the creators. “We took this concept, and came up with an idea to use the spinning CD disc as a Phenakistoscope.”

As well as the music video itself, I found a fascinating behind the scenes look at the making of the video. It's fantastic to see that this primitive style of animation is still being used in new inventive ways!