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I think African Grey parrots are absolutely the coolest birds around.  Apparently the owner of this one watched a bit too much Star Wars and it picked up some of the sounds.

He’s 71 and doesn’t speak a word of Japanese, but boy can he make free throws!

Artist, designer and animator Motomichi Nakamura was recently commissioned to create a 30 second animation to promote the “Japan Cuts Film Festival”.  This film festival is held annualy in New York by the Japan Society.  Sadly it’s already passed this year, but you can still visit their website and read about the films that were screened and about the Audience Award Winner “Near Equal Kusama Yayoi:  I Adore Myself”.

Here is Motomichi’s animation for the festival.

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福島県の福島市で誕生した、『やきとりじいさん体操』なるものが、YouTubeで大人気。

CrunchGear.com tagged this as creepy, but for me it just looks like a rip-off of the old Michael Jackson “Black or White” music video.  Just some morphs of the same person in different make-up.  What do you think?  Creepy or a rip-off?

Originally found on FEED

Tsujikawa Koichiro is a experimental animator and commercial director from Japan. He recently created the following music video.

Cornelius

The band is Called Cornelius.  You can visit their MySpace page HERE.

Head over to his website to view more music videos, commercials and short films: Tsujikawa Koichiro

Sometimes I find a video from Japan that just makes me smile and laugh to myself for the rest of the day.

Maybe Hitomi can comment on So-ranbushi?