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Lately - Space Man Spiff video

Lately - October 2005 Lately - October 2005 This video was fun and almost an afterthought when Clay and I were in Japan (the same trip that I filmed "Japan: a Video Essay") "Lately" was a top track on their new album and I thought it was a good potential for a video. At the end of the trip we had an extra day in Tokyo before the return flight so we decided to make a go of it. I spent some time thinking about a story line and decided to play off the anime cartoons that I saw people reading in the subway. That turned into an facinating two-hour search through various books stores looking at the covers of the cartoon magazines to see if anything looked like a story we could work with. The second order of business was to get a CD player so that clay could lipsync the music. We both had MP3 players but the song was not loaded on them and we didn't have a laptop to rip and covert to MP3. It was suprisingly difficult to find such a CD player, considering that we were in the middle of the Tokyo (Ginza, not Ahihabara). We even got one of the girls who we knew in Tokyo to remake some of the scenes from the cartoon (like walking in the park), but later we decided not to use the footage and instead focused on the subway and Shibuya footage + the cartoons. I didn't do anything with the footage until 8 months later when the final Space Man Spiff show was being planned. We decided to do some quick-n-dirty editing so that the video could be shown during the final show in October 2005. So after that windup, here it is, Lately!

Running time: 04:28

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