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Project Breakdown with Steffie Yee | The Lost Sound

The Lost Sound is a stop-motion short that reveals a woman’s experience of losing a language through some playfully animated visuals.

Crystal Dolphin – The making of an Internet Sensation

We sat down with both Engelwood and Ardhira to discuss their influences in art and music, why the video took five months to make and… Read more

Ardhira Putra | Engelwood – Crystal Dolphin

Tokyo Light Odyssey (360º Film)

Painstakingly crafted paper cut-out stop motion in “Spring Time – Old man”

Golden Touch

Sometimes it’s the simplest concepts that produce the most surprising results. Logan director Kenji Yamashita teamed up with Masashi Kawamura from creative lab PARTY to create a whimsical… Read more

OK Go “I Won’t Let You Down”

Masters of the one-take viral music video, OK Go teamed up with creative director Morihiro Harano to create yet another eye-popping, people-powered (well, mostly) music… Read more

Team Lab Exhibits at Japan Society NYC

Tokyo based Team Lab is on display now through January 11 at The Japan Society in NYC. And it is utterly, wonderfully, sublimely, and slowly….Japanese.… Read more

Yuya Yamaguchi: Montage 2014

Yuya Yamaguchi’s reel is worth watching for the editing alone. Tightly choreographed to the soundtrack from the frolicfon, the montage bubbles with energy.

Birdo Studio: Gloom

Birdo Studio presents a Japanese-inspired kaiju Brazilian music video. (“Kaiju” is a Japanese word which literally means “strange creature”, like the ones in the movie Pacific… Read more

Land

Outstanding piece by Tokyo-based Masanobu Hiraoka, one of the creatives from Je Regarde.

Takashi Ohashi: Kou Kou

Takashi Ohashi presents us the brilliant piece: KouKou. A series of abstract images synchronized to Japanese vocal sounds. Check out his other works here.