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July 6, 2005
Noda Nagi's Pakuri Problem Part Two
In my post from April 30th, I asked whether anyone really cares that art director Noda Nagi habitually steals ideas from other sources? Apparently, people do care.
According to some insider sources, Japanese fine artist Aida Makoto's managing gallery - the Mizuma Art Gallery - has sued Noda over her illicit copying of Aida's work "Azemichi" for the record cover of Halcali's second album Ongaku no Susume. Noda's management was apparently livid over the action and claimed that Noda had never even heard of Aida until they both appeared at the same art conference last November. Aida supposedly thinks this whole episode is hilarious, and his manager sees the aggressive lawsuit as a provocative piece of "contemporary art." Nice idea: if the system keeps stealing your idea, make the legal-economic system into performance art.
In totally unrelated news, Halcali have discontinued the original Ongaku no Susume cover and have a new pakuri-free one to celebrate their breaking of the 100,000 sales mark! God bless the omote/ura distinction. No one loses face - unless those idiot bloggers start wanting the truth or something lame like that.
I'm not sure where the ad on the left comes from, but it shares some striking similiarities to the video Noda directed for Yuki's song "Sentimental Journey." The cd jacket on the right is not as telling as the actual video or the long promotional poster for the Yuki single "Commune." Maybe the art director of the ad ripped off Noda's work. Whatever the case, everyone is now extra-sensitive about Noda stealing things - eyes keen like those of security guards when Winona Ryder enters a department store.
Posted by marxy at July 6, 2005 11:56 PM
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I was just wondering about this notion of authenticity and copying. This is clearly a western idea correct?
Posted by: Nagi Noda at July 8, 2005 2:56 AM
See, they say that and then who's bitching about pakuri on 2-ch? Japanese kids. And who's suing Noda Nagi (you)? Japanese artists. Of course, I'm going to complain about it, but I'm like the last guy in the city to have an opinion on this matter.
Posted by: marxy at July 8, 2005 3:05 AM
here, you can watch the video here if anyone is interested.
http://www.dandad.org/awards2005/entry.asp?entry_id=V_11442
you have to get past the first 15 seconds or so to get into it though. its just Yuki standing there for the first part.. doing nothing.
Posted by: trevor at July 9, 2005 6:07 AM
Thanks for that link, Trevor.
It's clear that if Noda did borrow from that ad, she took the whole thing to a whole new level. Very impressive work, but I still wonder why she feels the need to take the intial ideas from other sources.
Posted by: marxy at July 10, 2005 1:40 PM