February 17, 2003

The Protest


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Around 6:00 pm, I met Cameo at Shibuya and found a lot more protesters. The meeting spot was Hachiko (the famous dog) so it was hard to tell who was there for protesting and who was there to meet their date. A good gimmick on the part of the protest organizers to inspire people to join. It’s like having a protest on a train station platform (BTW, I read that in Osaka, some protesters rode the subways to display their signs). After some speeches, we all (I have no idea how many) walked towards Miyashita Park. There, people came and came and came. People played music, distributed flyers, and began talking to each other. The more we hung around, the more excited I got. This was a real protest!

The movies show the main organizers making some more speeches, the third one is of a group who wore Bush face masks and did a song/dance ridiculing him to dust, and the final movie shows us all walking around right smack in the middle of Shibuya. To see the faces of young teenagers who were busy shopping or drinking Starbuck’s coffee, and to (hopefully) make the drivers of the ridiculously huge SUV’s at least a bit uncomfortable, and to receive waves from grandma’s in the public buses stuck in the middle of the march, was so worth it. I came away from the whole event high and happy...relatively speaking that is. My heart was heavy to have seen several people who left that night for Iraq to be human shields...

Posted by Mie at February 17, 2003 10:36 AM
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Hey Mie,

How about posting your movies as quicktime so that us lowly mac users can see them too? :-)

Posted by: Shaun at February 18, 2003 02:57 AM

Unfortunately her cellphone takes the movies in this weird proprietary .amc format. I'm not aware of any way to convert them to anything else, nor of any .amc players for other operating systems. If anyone ever runs across either of those things please let Mie or I know...

Posted by: Dav at February 18, 2003 03:13 AM

Bummer. I've been told anyway that with the quality of the movies, I should take more photos than movies, so I keep that in mind. But with the protests, I really wanted to catch the raucous that pics couldn't capture.

Why can't companies agree to use the same format? Really, are they just trying to piss us off?

Posted by: Mie at February 18, 2003 09:59 AM

Shaun, I just ran across some good quality quicktime movies of the Tokyo march on joi ito's site: Anti-war parade in Shibuya.

Posted by: Dav at February 18, 2003 02:57 PM

Actually, I took a lot of videos, but my site is down at the moment. As soon as that is rectified, I'll post my pictures and videos... (although, by that time, the interest will have subsided.. ah well.)

Posted by: Cameo at February 19, 2003 12:00 AM

Oops, the HTML got stripped out of that post about Joi Ito's site, here it is: http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/02/16/movies_from_the_antiwar_parade_in_shibuya.html

Posted by: Dav at February 19, 2003 01:38 AM

Yep, nice photos, and if only I could watch those movies too...
I was at the protest too but didn t see you. ;-( I too have some photos posted on my web, just click on my name under.
about the art between protesting post... where was that exhibition, cos I wanna go there and check it out. cheers
p

Posted by: Paul at February 20, 2003 02:01 AM

I've got a question: how do actually open amc file. what software tool do you use? thank you

Posted by: wei wei at June 30, 2003 05:52 AM

This may be useless information but if you go to this website and download the ezmovie player, which is the very FIRST red DOWNLOAD box, and as long as your computer can support the Japanese language, you should be in business! This is the site address: http://www.au.kddi.com/ezfactory/tec/spec/ezmovie_lite.html It worked for me so hopefully it will work for you, too!! Good luck! =) cory

Posted by: Cory at August 18, 2003 02:32 AM

Apple are apparently supporting .amc in the next version of QuickTime (6.5) due out any day now.

Posted by: Richard at December 18, 2003 07:51 PM

quicktime 6.5 plays amc files download it from apple cheers.

Posted by: ondris at April 16, 2004 07:20 PM
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