TOKYODV Video Log » land http://tokyodv.com/videolog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:36:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Vidicle: A Publisher in the Shadows http://tokyodv.com/videolog/vidicle-a-publisher-in-the-shadows/ http://tokyodv.com/videolog/vidicle-a-publisher-in-the-shadows/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 04:01:12 +0000 tokyodv http://tokyodv.com/videolog/?p=204 Soapland!Something I just started working on. I call them ‘Vidicles’; video previews of written articles.

Since the YouTube ‘revolution’ has expanded the definition of ‘online video’ – (talking heads pointlessly babbling in front of a camera? This is entertainment?) I thought; ‘why not make videos of someone reading well written, captivating articles’? In this case, that ‘someone’ is my computer, and the ‘well written article’ is from Captain Japan.

Watch this vidicle preview of his recent article: A Publisher in the Shadows:

Hiroharu Kimura dresses in black: sport jacket, shoes, socks, slacks, and gold-rimmed sunglasses. Aside from his blue dress shirt, his attire follows the vampire bat trademark used for his sex-trade publication Manzoku, meaning satisfaction.

“Bats cannot see,” says the chairman of Creators Company Connection, reclining in the sofa of his office in Tokyo’s Okubo district, “but they have a special sense.”

Indeed, Kimura operates his business – printing magazines that cater to Japan’s sexual services and hostessing industries – by feel.. READ THE FULL STORY!

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