Friday, December 08, 2006

Hifana Wamono Music Video



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHbORS_7iE
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(2006) 365:AIGA Year in Design 27 (56/179)

Please follow above link to fully appreciate this a celebration of Nippon culture and identity. Wamono is a music video that explores Japanese music, folklore, identity, art and technology, reinterpreting them as a contemporary hybrid expression of Japanese history. Originally made as a promotional video for the music of HIFANA (a Japanese music company), the video utilizes an ukiyo-e like style, but with unconventional and strange characters. This unusually unique pictorial world ends with a party inside a huge fish's stomach, what more could anybody want?.

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