“The universe is flooded with a wild, unharnessed energy.” – 1000 Classic, verse 2
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“being infinitely vast, the sky is black. There being nothing lower, the ground is yellow.” – 1000 Classic, verse 1 “Yellow Wind” refers to the wind which comes from China bearing sand of the Gobi desert mixed with toxic particles. Every year around March, this wind blankets much of South Korea and parts of Japan, along with China’s own cities, like Beijing. Traces of the wind have been known to reach the west coast of North America. This film was shot from an apartment window in Seoul. This is footage taken of a sound+video installation that I saw last Friday (March 17th, 2006). The creator of this installation is Seafran from France. These days, he is seen around Seoul DJing dub and reggae. I don’t know if there’s some particular explanation or story behind this installation, but anyway it’s cool just as it is. Music producers can take note that one of the pieces of equipment hanging from the ceiling is the Boss 303 Dr. Rhythm Sampler. Some of the sounds are coming from the installation, and other sound is just spilling over from the live performances that were happening on the lower floors. This particular installation was only up for one night as a side piece for the opening party of a video art exhibition at the Platform L (aka Loop) gallery space in the Hongik area of Seoul. Hongik is continuing to look more and more like a fashionable neighborhood of Tokyo everyday. Cool little buildings and quirky bars are popping up all over the place. It’s a vibrant neighborhood of clubs, art schools, galleries, and even woodworking shops. As for myself, for this party, I had set up two projectors and all my VJ equipment. I didn’t get set up on time, and had serious concentration problems, distracted by all the movement around me. Then, my computer got on some weird setting, which I realized the next day could be attributed to something on my display-output being set as “Pal” when of course it should have been “NTSC.” But of course this is all just excuses for the fact that I hadn’t quite thought everything through before the night of the event. This is the original introductory sequence for my Pacific Resistance project (a collection of about 40 short films). I want to revisit this project and re-edit it sometime soon, since I really didn’t know how to use the editing tools at the time I made this. coming soon Seagulls swarm the decks of the ferry as it goes to Seokmodo Island on the west coast of Korea. They circle in expectation of shrimp chips thrown by passengers. I have about 15 minutes of proper 3CCD video of the birds, but this little excerpt is just a short clip from my digi camera. coming soon Osaka Hotel A photo remix by DoAn Forest. My friend Youki Cropas had taken a series of photos of birds in a harbor in Istanbul. The photos hypnotized when played in a slideshow. I asked for permission to remix them and this is the result. My concept was of a lonely merchant sailor watching TV in a Korean harbor, different thoughts going through his head. The music is a distorted remix of Billie Holiday’s “I’m A Fool To Want You.” |
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