Posts tagged 'Japanese'
Kou kou
I often implore y’all to watch the videos I post here ‘full screen with the lights down’. I think properly ‘setting the scene’ for any worthwhile experience is well, worth it, but in the case of the attached it’s an absolute necessity.
All the sounds in this film by Takashi Ohashi are syllables in the Japanese language but aren’t joined together with any formal syntax; there’s no meaning to discern whatsoever. The same goes for the animation, it’s just bright shape and form on a black field, a visual representation of how your eyes might interpret what your ears are experiencing.
I had a strange realization as I watched it. My initial reaction was “Yeah, that looks about right” but then, in the very next moment, I wondered why it looked right. What in my instinctual thought process is validating the authenticity of how these moving forms relate to the sounds my ears are hearing? Where is that process taking place in my grey matter?
Stranger still, I never had any doubts that you would have the same experience. The human mind is a deliciously strange and delightful thing to both observe and observe with. So yeah, maximize your wonder quotient by clearing out the distractions before clicking play, the extra effort is well worth it.
P.S. When you’re done here, be sure to give With My Umbrella – a music video by Takashi Ohashi we posted last August – a watch next.
[ こうこう | koukou ]
posted by respondcreate on Apr. 15, 2013 in Videos | tags: abstract, animation, black and white, hd, japanese, music video, takashi ohashi, trippy
The Beauty of Yuta Onoda
Japan-born Yuta Onoda lives and works in Toronto, Canada as an independent illustrator, painter, and all around fantastic artist. His style blends Japanese folk-lore and fantasy with modern elements, with a strong emphasis on nature themes. Check out the rest of his work featured in the wonderful Behance Network.
[ Yuta Onoda Illustrations 1 ]
posted by tizmatti on Oct. 24, 2010 in Pictures | tags: art, illustration, japanese, painting