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Koga Lantern Festival

April 5th, 2007 · 6 Comments






Another video created from source material that has sufficiently aged like a fine cheese.

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), DivX


Categories: Videocast

6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Kyle Eppard Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 // Apr 5, 2007 at 7:11 am

    That's really interesting. I think that would be a cool even to see in person.

    Superb editing.

  • 2 Ventura PORTUGAL Mac OS X Safari 419.3 // Apr 5, 2007 at 8:47 am

    Is that music KODO ?

  • 3 Rich Pav JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11 // Apr 5, 2007 at 8:59 am

    @Kyle: And to think that I didn't fuss over the editing at all. It took only one night's worth of work. (I slept in the office again.) Ever since I shot the video I've known how I wanted to edit it, and I recently learned how to do it.

    @Ventura: It's called Taiko drumming.

  • 4 mike Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 // Apr 5, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    superb video! are there many festivals in japan? my impression is that they seem to be a common occurance.

  • 5 Rich Pav JAPAN Windows 2000 Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11 // Apr 5, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    Many, many festivals all year around. I'm glad for them because they break the routine and let you run into old friends. I'm usually the only foreigner I see at festivals in Koga, like the one at Sogo Koen last weekend when I took the flower photos. It used to bother me because I was extremely self-conscious and people used to point me out over and over. It's not like that anymore, I get treated like a human being instead of a alien life form or a big fuzzy Disney character. These days people pay more attention to our kids because they're so damn cute.

  • 6 Dave REPUBLIC OF KOREA Mac OS X Safari 419.3 // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    I have to agree with Kyle, that's very nicely put together!