The artists selected their chosen face by setting up a booth on a crowded North Tokyo street and asking people to submit their faces. Eventually, they settled on the weathered face of a local ojisan who resembled someone in a dream Me member Haruka Kojin had when she was young. Once they had the face, the group spent two months meticulously painting comic book-style dots onto the rubbery surface of the balloon. While The Day an Ojisan’s Face Floated in the Sky first launched on Dec. 13, 2014, the project will rise again this weekend for those who missed it.
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