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Natural Circle – marru

marru promotion video - Visual representation of the natural universe

Natural Circle

In exploring the concept for this video, I came across one photo-picture book.
It is “Freddy the Leaf” by Dr. Leo F Buscaglia, an American pedagogue.
The main character is Freddy, a maple leaf, who teaches children about life and its importance.
Freddy is born in spring, spends summer and fall, and as he watches his friends scatter one by one in winter, he teaches them that he too will return to the earth to nurture new life, and that he will be born again in spring.

We titled this video “Natural Circle” after the cycle of life.

There was a large maple tree along Park Avenue on the way to my studio, and I began my work with a drawing of a single leaf.
At first, I considered drawing the maple leaf with my usual calligraphy dip pen, blotting the ink with a brush with a beveled tip, vector tracing it on the computer, and making it 3D with computer graphics.
In the end, as shown in this photo, everything was mixed together to depict a single piece of Maalu’s unique cosmic vision and sense of life.

We decided to use a simple layout for the video, with pages on either side like a picture book, and to convey the message in print rather than through narration.

It is interesting to note that Maalu operates according to the lunar calendar, rather than the Western calendar (koyomi). It seems that the products released so far have been chosen for full moons, new moons, and auspicious days of the lunar calendar.
The release date of this PV was scheduled for February 3, the first day of spring after the first day of spring, but of course, it could not be released in time and ended up being February 12, the Chinese New Year.
Every day on my way home from the studio, I would look up at the moon’s shadow in the night sky and wonder, “Was the moon really this fast? and the moon would smack me on the butt.

The aforementioned Dr. Bhaskaria taught pedagogy at his alma mater, the University of Southern California, in later years, and held a non-credit seminar called “Love 1A.
He lived his entire life as an educator, focusing on the education of life, the importance of life, and the connection between people in society.
The seminar led to the publication of “Love” (1972) and “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf” (1982).
It was a happy Lunar New Year with the birth of another work of love!

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