Ekakiya’s VJ Show, Pink Cow, Tokyo

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ekakiya.jpgRemember the Blender party at the Pink Cow in Tokyo recently? (unfortunately we lost the post in the database-crash). One of the events was a VJ show by Blender artist Ekakiya and this show is now available on YouTube. Prepare yourself for an amazing ten minutes of video!

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Direct link to YouTube.

The video also contains fragments of his work ‘The Magic of Amelia‘, which was shown on the 2006 Cannes Film Festival but was never released on the internet (only on DVD). I thoroughly enjoyed this, even if the YouTube video quality isn’t very good.

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    • http://thinningpictures.googlepages.com/ LoMac

      Quite Enjoyable!!!

    • http://www.mumeli.org/en/ Serge Gielkens

      I am astonished. I cannot recall having seen such a diverse mix: cartoon, animation, clip art and numerous graphical effects. Did he exclusively use Blender for the editing and mixing? Amazing anyhow.

    • http://e2-productions.com Dion Moult

      It was OK, but I didn’t appreciate the oscillating images :(

    • http://cosmic-e.com Zalgren

      A bit difficult to follow – Still impressive work if it was indeed all done in blender.

    • RNS

      An art that was done in Blender – good!

    • kram1032

      Not the kind of Art, I like, but it was great :D

    • http://yorik.orgfree.com Yorik

      This is just amazing! I would love to see a tutorial about that kind of high-level use of the sequencer…

    • http://www.rgbk.org Bmud

      Awesome playlist too. Is anyone J-music savvy enough to know what’s playing past the three minute mark? It reminds me of Japanese SNES-hacking band YMCK

    • http://www.rgbk.org Bmud

      By the way, if you want to watch ‘The Magic of Amelia’ as badly as I do, it’s going to cost you roughly 41 dollars.

      http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B000AO8BRU/ref=dp_change_lang/250-8944267-7078634?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP

      Proceed with caution. I don’t know if amazon japan ships anything out of the country and furthermore be on the look out for the “read this page in english” links past the shopping cart.

    • http://www.rgbk.org Bmud

      Yeah.. unless someone feels like making a friend in japan, having them order it and having them mail it to you or flying over to japan to pick it up yourself… that film is impossible to get ahold of.

    • jaycun

      in my opinion, the poor video quality matches the poor quality of the video.

    • http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub panzi

      Awesome! And (mostly) awesome music, too. Is there a playlist available?

    • ekakiya

      Thank you for the introduction!
      And the Playlist is here.
      1. Lovers of other [Shitdisco]
      2. The time of the turning [Peter Gabriel]
      3. Space Music [Sexy Synthesizer]
      4. Far Out [Sexy Synthesizer]
      mixed with “It’s in Our Hands” at Vespertine Live [Bjork]

      Sexy Synthesizer is on an independent label in Japan.
      http://www.sexy-synthesizer.com/

    • http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub panzi

      Oh. I know “It’s in Our Hands” very well, but I didn’t hear it. o_O

    • http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub panzi

      Thanks for the playlist, but I can’t find the one Song I’m looking for. Are you sure that the 2nd song is “The time of the turning [Peter Gabriel]“? It does not sound like this: http://www.petergabriel.com/discography/release/OVO/160/
      Maybe it’s just a other part of the song? I mean the song that sounds a bit mediaeval (starting with pipes or something like that and using drums odr something at the end etc.).

    • http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub panzi

      Oh, it’s “The Time Of The Turning (Reprise)/The Weavers Reel”. ;)

    • Amir Taaki

      wow, thats fucking amazing :D

    • sozap

      So great !! , I like your work very much !! , you have find very cool ways to produce nice images , and created various crazy universe .

      maybe sometimes I’m not so fan of flashing things , and sometimes I’d like to see things more clearly , there is too much layer superposed in my opinion (sometimes) , But I assume this is because of the VJ stylization of your work.
      also you have a crazy/funny way of throwing quick and dirty videos, and just after that lauching a wonderfull masterpiece , and maybe it’s just the VJ look too , personally I found this crazy/funny
      Also the music is well chosen , and the image match well .
      I’ve seen only a few images and one or two videos of yours before , so it’s great to see more of your work.
      congratulation for these ones !!

      but now i’m wondering a few questions , do you use sound analyzing to produce video effects ?(I guess you don’t) what is a realtime show ? , I can’t even imagine a little bit that this was done in real time in blender . But maybe it’s just a lack of knowledge , I’ve never came to make real time things in blender .
      have you controlled real time effects during the show ?
      By curiosity I’d like to know a little more of the technique behind this . But this is not so important , the result is much important .

      keep on doing great things !!

      sozap ( france )