Warning! A huge videogame controller is coming.
Check out these images,
this object is not CG, but a real video game controller.
This "Extreme-style console controller" is made by Takamasa
Sumi,
for "The 3rd
Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005" at the Fukuoka Asia Art
Museum.
Height : 2.2m (6.5 feet)
Full length:3.4m (11 feet)
Weight: over 50kg (110 pounds)
Material : FRP, steel , Mazor color, Sega Saturn with Light gun
controller,
TV monitor and "Death Crimson software".
You can get more information from a flash movie on this
website.
http://www.tetusinman.com/fusigi_haku_web/
(The movie is subtitled in English.)
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~bu9t-sm/crimson0.html
"Huge Crimson" in Japanese
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~bu9t-sm/artrek.html
Fine-arts solid modeling studio ARTREK : Takamasa Sumi's
works
This videogame controller is inspired by the CULT
Videogame,
"Death Crimson" for SegaSaturn by Ecole Software. http://www.e56.info/
( Look at the top of the controller, where a SegaSaturn is
embedded! )
"Death Crimson" had once been known as the worst "KUSO-GAME
(crappy game)" ever made.
It scored 1.0909 out of 10 (10 being perfect) on the "first week"
user's review on SegaSaturn Magazine,
which was the lowest score ever recorded in the users'
review.
However, after years of being at the bottom,
"Death Crimson" is now a CULT FAVORITE (just like Ed Wood's
movies).
The original "Death Crimson" videogame regularly sells for $80 or
more in Akihabara.
Finally , Ecole Software had to reprint the game to help
satisfy the demands.
http://www.planetps2.com/mmcafe/soup_03-15-01.html
The reprint version of "Death Crimson" sold out in a matter
of weeks after it was released.
"Sekkaku dakara ... " (With much trouble, though... )
become a common catch-phrase for
Japanese videogamers, similar to the "All your base are belong to
us" sensation that
Zero Wing had on the US several years ago.
The before day of last day of the exhibition, Takamasa Sumi and
Mr.Manabe (the president of Ecole Software)
discussed from the perspective of the "post-modern art
world, videogame and fan community".
http://faam.city.fukuoka.jp/cgi-bin/eng/event/event.cgi?year=2005&eid=10117
This mammoth controller and mad game console is now going to
be shipped to the EU
for Art Exhibition in C21, from 11 February to 9 April 2006
(maybe)
- a year-long cultural and community arts event in Blackburn with
Darwen, Lancashire, UK.
http://www.c21.tv/event-detail.asp?i=37%0D
http://www.c21.tv/home.asp
http://faam.city.fukuoka.jp/eng/corres/cpd_index.html
The huge controller is one hundred percent functional, but the
only game you can play
with it is "Death Crimson" because the game disc is locked in
with quick-drying glue,
and no way to remove it.
P.S.
The first time you play Death Crimson, you can expect to survive
for under 30 seconds, literally.
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
http://faam.city.fukuoka.jp/eng/home.html
http://faam.city.fukuoka.jp/cgi-bin/eng/exhibition/exhibition.cgi?eid=10139
http://faam.city.fukuoka.jp/FT/eng/2005/index.html
http://faam.city.fukuoka.jp/cgi-bin/eng/event/event.cgi?year=2005&eid=10117
WONDER MUSEUM : SUMI TAKAMASA
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~bu9t-sm/index.html
http://www.tetusinman.com/fusigi_haku_web/ (flash
movie)
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~bu9t-sm/crimson0.html
Ecole Software (The god of "Death Crimson")
http://www.e56.info/
C21:(Blackburn with Darwen,
Lancashire, UK.)
Parallel Realities : Asian Art Now, a touring exhibition of work
from the Third Fukuoka Triennale, Japan
http://www.c21.tv/event-detail.asp?i=37
http://www.c21.tv/
Special thanks:
Bt garner(Mindrec) (Thank
you for correction of my "Engrish" writing)
Dave Shadoff(Thank you for correction of my "Engrish"
writing)
hikaru(nankado)(Thank you for correction of my "Engrish" writing
and good advice.)
Mr Raiji Kuroda (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum)
Wonder
Museum "clues", especially Fushigiko-chans.
and
Mr.Manabe (the president of Ecole
Software)
Mr. Takamasa Sumi (Wonder
Museum : Fine-arts solid
modeling studio ARTREK)