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The Big Picture

posted by HaricotVert

4 months 4 weeks ago • 417 views

tags: black, card, drawing, child, think different, psychology, imagination

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Dude, awesome. Translation?

written by RhesusMonk

| 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Moving this video to HaricotVert's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

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*beg

written by HaricotVert

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter HaricotVert.

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This reminds me of Maxine Hong Kington's The Woman Warrior - as a child in China, she would draw pictures and then blacken them out, like a stage curtain. Her parents, unable to understand her thinking, brought her to a bunch of psychologists.

At least the whale looks happy. Good sign, yes?

written by blahpook

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Very very nice.

written by Bakalex

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For the Japanese challenged:

At the start, the teacher instructs the students to draw whatever floats up from their hearts. Hence her dismay when the boy scribbles all across his page in black.

Later in the commercial, a doctor asks the boy what he is drawing, but they boy doesn't respond and keeps scribbling.

The text at the end of the commercial says literally: "Please do not steal the creativity from our children." It's followed by what I believe is the logo for the company that created the TV spot, though I'm not certain about that. Their motto loosely translated is "Start now for a new tomorrow."

Web site: http://www.ad-c.or.jp/

Apparently they use media such as commercials to convey important social messages. I only glanced briefly through the site, maybe someone with more time or who is actually in Japan now can give some more info about them.

written by SDGundamX