When Architecture Becomes Abstract, + beats

It's interesting and beautiful how the landscape and the accompanying architecture becomes "notches" for the beat, the music is so seamlessly timed and edited in with the images filmed in a moving train (specifically, on a shinkansen commute from Shinosaka to Tokyo. Yes, the bullet train.) The immediate effect is calming and gratifying, although there's a feeling that the whole concept is rather too "simplistic", especially in response to the artifice of a mirror effect adding a decidedly surreal effect. But then again, there's a thin line between simple and simplistic, and as a whole, the video falls neatly to the "simple" category, in quite an extraordinary way. Also, it might be a point of interest: is the video a comment on how symmetry can lend "intelligence" and beauty to anything, even to a supposedly bland train window view? A case of symmetry propelling the mundane to glorious heights. That might be over-thinking it, but hey, why not? 

This was just such a great experience. It helps that the video used a song I like a lot.

Enough babbling. Fullscreen, HD on, plug in your earphones... go. 

Also, check this video with the same concept: Shinkansen ver.3, also by Dahei Shibata.
 
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