It seems like a lot of us have been feeling like it's week five since, well, since we got back to Cambridge, to be honest. Just for clarification: it's still week two. Or something. Yep. Six more weeks at least.
The last time you felt anything remotely like unadulterated joy might seem like a little while ago (I mean, it might be yesterday, you should still watch this) - but this video by the excellent Shishi Yamazaki, a Japanese animator, might remind you of it. Yamazaki has created an exuberant video-portrait of herself dancing through the streets in a district of her native Tokyo (YA-NE-SEN stands for Yanaka/Nezu/Sendagi, the areas she dances through). There's something lovely and refreshing about everything from the jazzy music to the mixture of scribbly pencil and splashy watercolour in which she has rendered the scenes - I love the hand-drawn feel of it all as well as the simplicity of the idea, and the song is just the right level of catchy...
Enjoy!
The last time you felt anything remotely like unadulterated joy might seem like a little while ago (I mean, it might be yesterday, you should still watch this) - but this video by the excellent Shishi Yamazaki, a Japanese animator, might remind you of it. Yamazaki has created an exuberant video-portrait of herself dancing through the streets in a district of her native Tokyo (YA-NE-SEN stands for Yanaka/Nezu/Sendagi, the areas she dances through). There's something lovely and refreshing about everything from the jazzy music to the mixture of scribbly pencil and splashy watercolour in which she has rendered the scenes - I love the hand-drawn feel of it all as well as the simplicity of the idea, and the song is just the right level of catchy...
Enjoy!