Superflat Monogram

If only all designer commercials were like this. It hasn`t convinced me to blow a month`s pay on a Louis Vuitton bag, but it has given me 5 minutes of happy. The music video starts with a little girl texting away on her phone. A tie-dye bear appears in front of her, and before the poor girl can recover from the shock of seeing something so outlandish, it eats her phone. Then it eats her as well. The inside of the bear is an alternate dimension that looks something like a hippie`s imagination filtered through the taste of a pre-teen Japanese girl. The girl flies ... around in search of her phone, and what could have been the stuff of an acid trip gone wrong turns into happy fun time.

The perfect match that the animation forms with the music makes it seem like they were created for each other. When the girl is just standing outside a mall, the music is a bright and somewhat spastic melody. Just as we see the bear, the bass comes in, and just as the girl sees the world inside the bear, the beat and choir are added. Many other dramatic moments in the animation, like a blooming cascade of flowers, are accompanied by a dramatic shift in the music. As the story layers, so does the music. The music itself is a bubbly hodge podge of samples from every instrument imaginable. A single instrument will rarely see more than 3 or 4 notes before surrendering the melody to something else. The techno beat gives some order to it all, but it`s still a wonder to me how in all its jarring disjointedness, this piece of music manages to make sense. It`s quite amazing to listen to.

Superflat Monogram is a simple pleasure. A frolicking little girl to groovy music anyone? Aside from an LV symbol here and there, I don`t really see how this ties into designer fashion, but who cares about that.

Basically this 5 minute short anime film had popped up on a site that can't be named and I just wanna see what it involves!

The short starts off with a little girl waiting for someone at a Louis Vuitton store, meets a creature (who honestly might as well be a Madoka Magica villain) and gets sucked into a pretty unusual world. There's not really much going on in the world but only the kid was just looking for her flip phone (hadn't said that in ages, yeah I'm old deal with it) and in the end goes back to normal after exploring a little bit ... of that weird wondrous world.

Music was alright enough but I would like for it to be more upbeat. Although I will say the little girl and the little creature in this are cute. Yeah not much to say really about this short tbh. .

Well the description really says it all, "A young girl is standing outside a store, using her mobile phone, when a strange force wrenches that phone from her hands and drops it onto the ground. When she goes to pick up her phone she finds that a fantastically strange creature has picked it up first - and eats it. She's furious - until it eats her too," the it goes on to a supposition of her reasoning.

Pros: Animation only.

Cons: Story is odd, and music is very distracting.

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Not really worth watching, maybe one time max. Some sorta trippy short(no real story). like i said music is ... very disjointed and distracting it does sorta work with the short but not well enough. In shorts characters development can never be fully expressed. Animation is pretty good though.