{"id":1277,"date":"2023-03-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:37:37","slug":"richard-hamasakis-i-am-a-plastic-video-from-hiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/2023\/03\/09\/richard-hamasakis-i-am-a-plastic-video-from-hiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Hamasaki&#8217;s &#8220;I am a Plastic&#8221; Video from HIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just found the link to Richard&#8217;s award-winning short film of his &#8220;amplified poetry.&#8221; That&#8217;s me playing my digital guitar setup underneath the vocals and over the drone of Richard&#8217;s Moog. If you are curious what a digital guitarist is, take a look at my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHh63scHP-K9CO3QXkPe7bQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a> of the same name. I am pretty sure I also did the mastering for this track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Richard&#8217;s Vimeo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Screened live at the 41st Hawai\u02bbi International Film Festival (November 4 &#8211; 28, 2021); an Official Selection and Award Winner for the Best Shorts Competition in 2021 (La Jolla, CA); an Official Selection Semi-Finalist for the 2021 Munich Music Video Awards (Germany), and screened in person during the International Poetry Film Festival in Venice, CA on April 30, 2022, Richard Hamasaki&#8217;s film and amplified poem features concrete poet &amp; artist Thad Higa &amp; digital guitarist Rich Rath. &#8220;I AM A PLASTIC&#8221; was originally published in Read Water: An Anthology (San Diego: Locked Horn Press, 2020).<\/p><cite>RIchard Hamasaki<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"I AM A PLASTIC\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/504126219?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found the link to Richard&#8217;s award-winning short film of his &#8220;amplified poetry.&#8221; That&#8217;s me playing my digital guitar setup underneath the vocals and over the drone of Richard&#8217;s Moog. If you are curious what a digital guitarist is, take a look at my YouTube channel of the same name. I am pretty sure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/2023\/03\/09\/richard-hamasakis-i-am-a-plastic-video-from-hiff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richard Hamasaki&#8217;s &#8220;I am a Plastic&#8221; Video from HIFF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[5,16],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-digital-guitarist","tag-experimental-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}