The practice of cutting scenes from anime and re-setting the scenes to music is pretty widespread among die-hard fans of Japanese animation. Sad to say, most efforts fail to do more than fall flat on their face. Yeah bonzo, as if 99.99% of the viewers out there give two tugs of a dead dog’s cock about your selection of trashy metal and your near-naked obsession with animated japanese girls.
There is one particular editor whom I’ve been in awe of ever since I watched one of his videos in 2004. Koopiskeva hails from Random Variable Studios in Chicago and never fails to put out work that.. well shit, drives me near to tears. Here’s one of his latest pieces, entitled Momentum.
The song is Awakening by MAE, and the video is taken from 5 Centimeters per Second. The phrase is a metaphor for how humans, like cherry blossoms, inevitably fall away from each other as they find their own paths through life.
I have the high-res video. Contact me if you want it. The MP3 of Awakening is available for those who’ve figured out the secret behind my sigs.
I’ve raved about Poets of the Fall before… and here I am doing it again!
I chanced upon their music video for their song Carnival of Rust (off their second album of the same name) and its a gorgeous little bit of Tim Burton-esque kit. There’s just so much symbolic imagery in the video and I’d say they nailed the theme and tone to exactly fit that of the song itself. Take a look for yourself:
While you’re at the youtube, check out their videos for Locking up the Sun and Lift too. Simply great. Lots of mainstream artistes could take a leaf from their book.
“Infamous functions as a biography of Truman Capote’s life during the 6 year writing of his last complete work, In Cold Blood, about the serial murder of an entire family of four in the American mid-west. And in doing so, this movie shows just how an artist might invest so much of themselves in their work that they end up being damaged by the masterpieces they so painstakingly produce.”
“This movie was like a swiss-army knife of emotions. The big kind with the magnifying glass, nose-hair plucker and other weird contraptions that you’re never quite used or even seen before. But on some deep, oddly satisfying level you somehow feel them to be important to have around just in case even if the most plausible use you can conjure for it happens to involve starting a campfire on a very hairy walrus.”
