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Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl" (often referred to as Doggy Fitness or Poodle Fitness) is a short film by renowned art director and commercial film director Nagi Noda who has created spots for Nike and Coca Cola and starring Takahashi Mariko, a Japanese 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships gymnast and jazz musician.. The film was created for Panasonic's Ten Short Movies -- Capture the Motion series for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The film is a typical work out video except for the fact that the video's instructor is dressed in a body suit giving her the appearance of having muscles shaped like the fur of a groomed poodle dog. Also, exercising with her in the video are six actors dressed in dog costumes with actual live dogs' heads superimposed over their real heads. Nagi Noda, in her artist's statement, explained that she arrived at the poodle concept after noticing that the dogs' hair cuts resembled muscles. She believed that this concept would help her video appeal to people of all ages. The video circulated throughout the Internet since it was posted on the Panasonic website along with the other nine short films in 2004. Possibly contributing to its popularity, Noda never explains in the video why people in the video are wearing dog costumes, leaving viewers to speculate. Many early viewers had speculated that it was somehow related to furry fandom, though it seems more likely that this is meant to be purely surreal for its own sake.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: September 28, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Author: YoutreTube

Length: 0:03:35
Rating: 4.47
Views: 35,644

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Video Comments:
h0000d (Saturday 15th of November 2008 06:05:22 PM)
nightmares!
Kibaphile (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:07:53 PM)
LMAO!
dimmunagar (Saturday 8th of November 2008 07:44:25 PM)
WTF!!! disturbing :s
isobelbaby13 (Tuesday 4th of November 2008 02:15:25 PM)
OMG THEY USED REAL DOG HEADS ! ** faints**
henrideath (Saturday 1st of November 2008 06:08:54 AM)
this was on a big screen in the disco i went to 2 days ago and holly shit i was rollin on the floor laughing !
gllorente (Thursday 16th of October 2008 04:03:39 PM)
nagi noda la lleva!!
thetotalpsycho (Tuesday 14th of October 2008 01:05:56 PM)
wth...is this for real?
sosomomonono (Sunday 12th of October 2008 08:11:46 AM)
wtf LMAO
asgdrew (Thursday 9th of October 2008 06:06:39 AM)
wow...guess it doesn't take much to be considered an artist anymore.
jesserus (Saturday 4th of October 2008 01:13:00 PM)
This is fucking stupid