Description: This work is an official collaboration with the DeFi-staked crypto collectibles “Aavegotchi,” and was released as crypto art. The “aave” in Aavegotchi means “ghost” in Finnish, and it is a web3 game where you collect various NFTs themed around cute ghosts. The frog “ROFL” that appears in the game is said to be modeled after PEPE, the internet meme frog that also became one of the origins of crypto collectibles. In this work, “ROFL” is likened to the Taniguku of Japanese mythology, and together with the rhythm struck by the ghost “Gotchi,” it attempts to reinterpret life. The music in this work incorporates rhythms from within the Gotchiverse, and hidden figures emerge in the spectrogram.

This work was created through the first collaboration between Kohei Kadowaki and Takaya Kawasaki. It incorporates real-life experiences from Kawasaki’s childhood, and also features photos taken by Kawasaki himself in his hometown and at his home, as well as timelapse footage of the sky shot by Director Kadowaki. The result is a fresh, innovative visual work that seamlessly blends live action and animation. Told as a fantasy-tinged story beginning with the encounter between a boy who has come from the future in a time machine and an elderly man, it delicately portrays the two characters’ memories, bond, and eventual parting through gentle, warm animation.

During the Cold War, coded broadcasts were frequently transmitted. While tuning a radio in the snowy mountains, a boy accidentally picks up a coded broadcast.