Carefully stoked by commercial interests and a new film on the horizon, nostalgic fervor for all-things TRON is now (predictably) at an all time high. Meanwhile, back in 2008, Japanese techno prankster unit Roman Porsche mounted an ambitious, detail accurate, and staggeringly strange mini-recreation of TRON’s eighties CGI look for their PV 神社建立 3001 (“Shrine Building 3001”), rapturously received in those days of yore by like three thousand and one people on YouTube.
Since then, Roman Porsche has abandoned the game grid to concentrate on live performance, DJ-ing, pop cultural commentary (member Okite Porsche was an early advocate of Perfume and co.) and starring in intriguing looking films such as Sukeban Hunters. Here’s hoping that Porsche's new record (possibly inspired by another eighties touchstone, below), soon connects with the cultural zeitgeist with the force of a laser guided Frisbee hitting someone in the forehead.
I don't speak Japanese, yet I cannot resist. I think it's all the nudity ; )
Posted by: Natalie L. Sin | August 13, 2010 at 01:53 PM