Imitating Litter
I fear we’ve been neglecting the arts. We must correct that immediately, lest we be mistaken for heathen savages. And so, via Mr Treesong, here’s Los Angeles choreographer Shoji Yamasaki and his mimetic convulsions:
Shoji Yamasakı is a pertormance artist behind the ongoing project Littered Mvmnts. He studies trash caught in the wind, and translates their erratic movement into precise, choreographed performances. pic.twitter.com/y7IpjgT2pC
— Interesting As Fuck (@interesting_aIl) January 24, 2026
Hey, you’ll get what you’re given and like it.
Mr Yamasaki describes himself as,
Which perhaps tells us much of what we need to know.
As the Littered Mvmnts project, of which the above is but a sample, is ongoing, additional convulsions can be had here.
Details of Mr Yamasaki’s other, less acclaimed works are also available.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I can think of something worse than watching his convulsions:
Actually being inside his head.
I have previously suggested punishing felons with Yoko Ono performances. Yamasaki could be used for misdemeanors.
Eric S Raymond on Zawinski’s Law:
I propose Thompson’s Law:
TBH, my mind went straight to cat litter, not trash. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to conjure up images of that.
TBF, he is not imitating litter.
At first I thought it would be something in this vein, but litter guy takes himself WAY too seriously.
There was a reason for that.