Shibuya Shadow Show

Was walking along Bunkamura-dôri last night, as one does, and came across an open air Xbox 360 installation. I have about a .1% interest in video games, mainly because I'd waste even more time than I do now if I played them. But what caught my eye was the huge shadow show being projected on the cement backside of the adjacent building. The installation, while being 100% corporate, rivals anything an artiste could come up with, like a high tech version of pre-cinema magic lantern shows (utsushi-e, 映し絵) which lets participants interact with computer generated shadows on a 7-story scale. Surely more interesting than the game it actually promotes (something called Blue Dragon). Check out the video here (QuickTime, 36s, 1.14Mb).

*Thanks to a great little site called Media Convert that took my cell phone's .asf file and converted it to QuickTime.