Mezame No Hakobune

Mezame no hakobune (めざめの方舟, lit. "Ark of Awakening"), aka Open Your Mind (international title), is a 2005 three-act musical drama presented on a multidisplay IMAX-like theme theater mixing CG-animated video with live-action footages directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii.

An OVA compilation version, renamed Open Your Mind: Special Edition, was available in limited quantities only at the Aichi Expo souvenir shop until it was re-released at the end of the expo as a Complete Edition which included a "Making of" bonus DVD and a color booklet.

Concept

Pavilion version

Theme theater

Open Your Mind was created for the World Exposition 2005's ("愛・地球博 Expo 2005 Aichi Japan") "Mountain of Dreams" (夢みる山, Yume miru yama) pavilion. The theme theater had a capacity of 200 viewers and the facility was named "Floor Plasma Multi MultiDisplay System" and used 99 screens. The show was available for six months, from March until September 2005, with a new 10 minutes episode released bimonthly.

U.S.U.R.A.

U.S.U.R.A. was an Italian electronic dance music group active from 1991-1998, best known for their crossover hit "Open your Mind".

History

U.S.U.R.A. was started by Time Records owner Giacomo Maiolini, producers Walter Cremonini and Alessandro Gilardi. The name is derived from that of Maiolini's mother, Ursula. The group is best known for the 1992-93 hit single (and later album) "Open Your Mind", featuring a dialog sample from the film Total Recall and incorporating sampled elements from the Simple Minds song "New Gold Dream" from 1982. Its video morphs the faces of Ronald Reagan, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Ian Paisley, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, Mary Whitehouse, and Joe McCarthy.

Discography

Albums

  • 1993 - Open Your Mind: The Album
  • Singles

    References


    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Open Your Mind

    by: Getaway People

    I'm over the hill and far away
    But you can see me
    At the corner of a liquor store every day
    Over and above the crowd I'm on my cloud
    But nobody ever listens to what I say
    Could it be the way I portray my existence?
    People always keep in the distance
    You're so, so blind in my own paradise
    Open your mind
    Let your spirit fly
    Peace in our time
    Everything is fine
    In your own paradise
    See me coming from afar one happy day
    But you do your very best to avoid me in every way
    The sign is on your face with every trace
    Wrong time, wrong place
    You violate my space with your paper cup
    My dollar bill, you drink it up
    Not that I care what I left behind
    Outta sight and out of my mind




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