Bouncing Red Ball

This engaging short film about Tokyo was created by W0W, a Japanese creative design studio, to enhance Citizen’s booth at the recent BASELWORLD 2009, the watch and jewelry showcase event in Basel, Switzerland.
The theme of the movie is infinite possibilities for Eco-Drive, Citizen’s new model in its range. We cohesively combined images and meanings of [...]

A typical street in suburban Japan, lined on both sides with Sugi, silence broken only by bird calls. Female mannequins with foreign-sounding names skateboarding, hitting the pavement and disintegrating into undignified heaps.
The contrast couldn’t get more jarring than that.
Depending on your mood, this is either “upsetting, disorienting, dark, and mysterious” or “pretentious, incoherent and boring”. [...]

Koki Tanaka is a “mixed-media artist who uses video and found objects to create iconic reflections of everyday life”. His art “invests mundane objects and actions with meanings both amplified and understated“.
The main strength of Tanaka’s deceptively understated art is using ordinary objects in unpredictable and unusual ways to change our perception of everyday existence. [...]