TOKYODV Video Log

After I saw some of the KOMADORI Bros. work on NHK’s Digital Stadium, I did a little surfing and found they were students at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. I emailed them, met to talk over beers, and asked if I could present their work to an ‘international’ audience. They thankfully obliged.. We still meet for beers now and then.. From NHK’s website, although I believe it’s a bit out of date: “Ohashi and Okamoto graduated from the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. Both appear in their work. Hirofumi Ohashi is currently working as a freelancer. Akio Okamoto is searching for his niche while working part-time making videos. (In this video) the gym outfit of Mr. Okamoto who desperately trys harder will make you excited. This is an absurd home video of this passionate guy. Sit back and enjoy the show.” Related: See more KOMA vids: Brother Hunter | Visit Okamoto-san’s Website | Buy a KOMADORI Bros. T-Shirt! – limited supply.

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NHK used to have a program called Digital Stadium where amature artists could submit and show their work. I was really impressed with the KOMADORI Bros. clips; they were both internationally understandable and culturally insightful. Bizzare little stories with a touch of humor.. In this clip, one brother is trying to find his lost sibling.. Then kill him. Related: See more KOMA vids – Brother Funkers | Visit Okamoto-san’s Website | Buy a KOMADORI Bros. T-Shirt! – limited supply.

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I had an extra hour to kill before meeting a friend to pound beers, so I decided to ‘people watch’ on the train platform. The evening sunlight gave everything a clean crisp appearance. Futako-Tamagawa station is high above one of the banks of the Tamagawa river; it’s possible to see Fuji off in the distance. The video clip has kids, trains, grandpas, and booted girls with phones.. Shot in the fall..

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A couple years ago, Docomo debuted what I believe to be the second generation of it’s popular video cell phone; the FOMA P2102V. I don’t think anyone had seen this kind of design yet; the screen twists and swivels perpendicular to the key-pad part of the body. It looked like a thin consumer level video camera with zoom, record, pause, and play functionality. I released this video two days after this model debuted. See the first generation of FOMA video phones here; the FOMA P2101V video

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It was a lazy morning, so I decided to call up some friends, rent a Cube, drink all day, and film some ‘creative’ commercials for TokyoDV’s Spring Fashion Line. This is b-roll from that day; kind of artsy crap, but people tend to like watching dancing girls and boobs.. I try to give power to the people. The girl in front is wearing a stylish pink Jr. Raglan with tapered cut to show shapliness. The Japanese Kanji on front says ‘Big Fake Breasts’… But hers aren’t fake, so we did some last minute alterations. See the commercial for TokyoDV Apparel here; Fashion Fight!.. Silly goodness is both silly and good.

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Forty meters under sprawling Tokyo is a tunnel system which houses utility lines – including gas, water, and electricity. This video has still shots from the contruction project and a miniature replica of the large drilling machine which carved out tunnel. Read Captain Japan’s article to get all the details: Journey to the Center of the Earth On this day, the tunnel was open for people to walk through and learn about how it was made. We stumbled upon a small team of photographers taking pictures of, what I thought to be, a very young girl. I’m not sure if she was a model or promoting some pedaphilic tendencies, but I believe she was with her mother.. so everything was ok.. I guess.

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A chat over coffee with Toshio Maeda. This is the second video of the interview. He tells us how the ’shy’ Japanese women would ask him to perform special ‘acts’ on them; acts like the ones in his hentai manga comics. The quality of the video is ok; the sound is a bit low, but the content is interesting. Toshio is quite a character and seems very ‘normal’ for someone writing and drawing the subject matter he does; rape, tentacle sex, and ‘creatureality’.. Related: WATCH Part I of the interview – READ Captain Japan’s article

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Toshio Maeda’s groundbreaking manga series Urotsuki Doji from the early ’80s firmly placed him in the history books – in Japan and abroad – as the pioneer of the genre known as hentai , or perverted. This work featured violent and graphic images of shapely young women being probed, felt, and fondled by the tentacles, elongated tongues, and miscellaneous extensions of creatures and men alike.

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