Beautiful Stranger

Posted on February 22nd, 2007 in Customary Drivel, Media, Video by Deas

NOTE: The seek bar does not work on this video. (The metadata is missing from the flash video, and I need to inject it.) When you click play, you can only pause and continue to play from that point. Do not try to seek - either nothing at all will happen, or you will restart the video. Since it is 15 minutes long, that would suck. When I fix it, I will remove this warning. Thanks.

This was a student project from a course I took called Intro to Urban Anthropology: Tokyo under the auspices of Professor Bernard at Waseda University in the 2004-2005 academic school year, whilst studying abroad. I didn’t want to work in a group, so I worked by myself - but give credit to Megan and Sam for playing dual roles as interviewees and part-time camera folk. The theme I chose was how foreigners handle interactions with one another, and whether or not culture or ideals from their home country is present in these decisions and feelings. Sounds fun, huh? No? Ok, fine. Be that way. Anyhoo. Please indulge yourself in a 15 minute long joyride through my young-skull-full-of-mush’s version of an anthropological short. My goals were two; not to take myself too seriously, and to make a video that stood out from the sure-to-come onslaught of boring stuff that did eventually come. (I only say that with a twinge of jealousy, for many of the boring films blew mine out of the water. Hence the need to differentiate myself in some way.) Behold it and weep - or just giggle at my awkwardness. That’s what I do.