neocha.com | i wanna be ::
Monday, April 13th, 2009:: I Wanna Be is a nice little animation by Neocha.com-user Kim227. According to Kim, he is a soon-to-be unemployed 21 year old student (离失业不远的学生) at Chongqing University and made this video for an animation class last year.
The background track is She Traded Her Leg by . Kim mentioned that while in China it’s normal to not respect copyright laws, he still has a guilty conscience over using the music without contacting the artist. //
[UPDATE: A few days after I first got in touch with Kim, he wrote me and asked if I was willing to help him contact and translate messages with Jeffrey Butzer, the composer of the background music for Kim's I Wanna Be. We reached Jeffery and he was very gracious, honored in fact, about Kim using his music. Cheers to Jeffrey for his generosity. Here is the new version of "I Wanna Be" with a hat tip to Jeffrey and Neocha.com. I definitely look forward to more opportunities to connect creatives halfway around the world.]
[full disclosure: Sean Leow is a guest contributor on 56minus1 and the CEO of Neocha.com]
