Sunday, October 03, 2010

"Wamono" by HIFANA

Thanks to insomnia, I caught this tweet by Roger Ebert to a set of Japanese hip hop videos. That led me to a video by a duo that calls itself HIFANA. "Wamono" can translated as "traditional Japanese things" so the visuals here play on a variety of images and practices that would be seen a Japanese and non-Western. They blend them with their hip-hop virtual personae and contemporary Japanese visual vocabulary, in a little story of a fishing trip that turns into something else:

HIFANA's "Wamono"

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