The second installment, focusing on the Nakagin Capsule Tower is now available to watch on Tokyo Art Beat. Please see the film's dedicated page here (日本語版はこちら).I've done a lot of experimenting to improve the quality on Youtube -- I'm quite satisfied with the results this time around. Nonetheless, I still want to offer a slightly clearer/smoother QuickTime (Windows here) version of the film. You may prefer to right-click/ctrl-click to d/l the file to your local hard drive, which will allow you to resize it etc.
Kurokawa Kisho on the Nakagin Capsule Tower - QuickTime, 7m11s, 93.9Mb, English Subtitles.
Working with photographs to create the sense of movement is time consuming. It must've been a Herculean task for a film such as The Kid Stays in the Picture, which drew from thousands of photos from producer Robert Evans' archives. That's a great Hollywood documentary, by the way.
Related Links:
Kurokawa Kisho, official site.
Kurokawa Kisho Wikipedia entry.
2 comments:
Hello Jason
My name is ben, and i was really interested with those couple of videos you did about Kisho Kurokawa.
Actually i'm a student in architecture in Paris and i'm writing a paper about the "metabolism" movement and the continuation/discontinuation of traditional techniques in contemporary japanese architecture.
I happened to do a year abroad in Fukuoka so my japanese is not too bad...i was wondering if you still had some info about Kurokawa, or his movement or any book recommendations would be cool.
thanks for your time, and keep up the blog!!
Thanks for your comments, Ben.
To be honest, I just produced the videos but didn't know a lot about Kurokawa. I suggest you contact Ashley Rawlings (the interviewer) over at Tokyo Art Beat so he can point you in the right direction.
Good luck!
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