So Kanye West's video for "Good Morning," directed by Takeshi Murakami, has been floating around in various bootleg forms for a few weeks, but I finally made it over to the Brooklyn Museum of Art to check it out in person and it really is worth the effort to see it.
The video is part of the multimedia portion of the museum's "Murakami" exhibit, along with some playful cartoons featuring Kaikai and Kiki, Murakami's favorite characters, about the wonders of, well, poop.
It's far darker than most of Murakami's work, reflecting the influence of West's own personal story, but in the end, everything still turns out OK in the artist's detailed, childlike style. Even the experience of watching the video plays to Murakami's style, requiring people to sit in a darkened room on a carpet, patterned with his happy flowers, like they were gathered for a grade-school movie.
Kanye West, "Good Morning"