This is a strangely mesmerizing animated music video created by Chiba-born artist Akino Kondoh. It features a folk-ish song about body-less children and a little Daria-esque morphing girl in black-and-white. Kondoh's work has been featured in museums across the world, including cities like Stockholm, Shanghai, and Boston.
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July 16, 2008
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Akino Kondoh is a Japanese contemporary artist who makes neat black-and-white video art. This one is called Ladybirds' Requiem. She uses pencil, pastel, and acrylic for the original illustrations, combines them on Photoshop, and then adds motion using... [Read More]
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Posted by: kiwi morado | July 17, 2008 at 07:07 AM
I really enjoyed this, do you have any leads for more from this artist?
Posted by: Jem | July 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM
we published some kondoh books here
www.lezardnoir.org
Posted by: Le Lezard Noir | August 08, 2008 at 11:49 PM
I saw "電車かもしれない" Kondoh at Digista and I was really fascinated by this surrealistic Taishô-girl :-)
Thank you for sharing it!
Posted by: Merzmensch | September 01, 2008 at 10:20 AM