Explorations
Through the cluttered week, one must find peace and leisure to attain balance and serenity. Without doing so, another stressful week could carry on and the burden will stack on each other. Weed is one way people find to be their vice or even their moment of peace. It is a drug where people have found to be imbuing and inspirational, as well as healing.
“When Shes on Fumes” is about the process of smoking and finding serenity within oneself. Meditation and a moment of connecting with nature may be one’s form of feeling serenity. However, music and film is another method of finding a moment to feel in place from the cluttered mind. The scenes within this abstract motion expresses a form of enjoying leisure and vice.
The motion will take a music video approach with 3 scenes.
[Motion Design]
When She's on Fumes
Switched at Birth
[Title Sequence]
A mother and daughter’s relationship is ever so intimate that without a single word, the slightest glance of an eye brings a connection and understanding that only the two could know. However, Marti and Sue were switched at birth. They still believed their mother who they lived with was their own, but the connection was never true. Especially with the Miller family, as Mary, knew her daughter was switched at birth.
Engraved
[Boardside Poster]
When going through the part 7 of the poem I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman, the envisionment of a sales pitch was made, though it seemed as if Walt Whitman had been exploring the beauty of the human body with emphasis while dehumanizing the beauty of society through the sales pitch of black slaves. The words that Whitman uses is ever so eloquent and truly expresses that the slaves being sold are no more different than any other human. However, again the irony of the sales pitch of selling slaves plays back in. Similarly Greek statues and Renaissance art had made the human form to be only perfect and have sold the idea of perfection with exaggeration from reality that relates to Whitmans poem in irony. The expression is beautified, and the reality proposed hides the fall of society.
Pachinko
[Editorial Design]
A slot machine that isn’t gambling, but rather a system of gaming that can change one’s savings into daily allowance Pachinko is a “gaming” slot machine that is ubiquitous and culturally accepted to be a leisure activity that brings in $310 billion revenue in Japan. Pachinko brings in more annual revenue than casinos in Singapore, Macao, and Las Vegas put together. Although the game of chance is played by most of the population in Japan, Pachinko hasn’t changed the livelihood of the players nor has it increased the Japanese economy in the past 3 decades.
Pachinko, however, peaked in 1998 creating an economic boom, but the economy was still about to pops it’s bubble. The game Pachinko may have it’s down fall in personal economics, but econimcally has sustained the the economy. Though as well brings burden in the culture reverting people into higher debts. Not everything is the way as it seems with pachinko. People commonly are told that pachinko, being kickstarting from Yakusas, comes from a dark underground world, but it is not in it’s totallity true. Pachinko is a family business that may have been influenced and started by Yakusas, but is actually run by Zainichi Koreans whom experienced the tragedies of Japanese imperialism and Korean War. Zainichis (Foreigners that hold resident in Japan) were segregated and not given legal permits to work. They were payed under the minimum wage, leading them to working behind the scenes.
The publication Pachinko explores the identity of Pachinko — a matured business with two sides. Pachinko’s relationhip with the Japanese culture, economy, and government is like the relationship with Korea and Japan. The cultures are magnets. Polar opposites that push and refuse each other, but are ever so similar that they attract and intertwine.
