The Meaning of Japan

[DLaurent]

Sonic Boom! Gaming in Japan, compulsion, obsession and the whole Otaku thing has always interested me. I wouldn't want to hazard what part of the national psyche it comes from.

 

[DLaurent]

From Wenders' Tokyo Ga.

 

[luka]

and that we are trying to recover it. that part of the appeal of Japan is that it holds out the promise of recovering this precise state depicted in the image above

you can see in that image how objects have a presence and the fullness of being, how they occupy space, how real they are, and how they, as much as the cat on the window-sill, are companions. again i think this is something the internet robs us of.

 

[luka]

everything becomes flattened and unreal things dont have a life and history of their own its all generated by the programme it al came into being at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way

 

[pattycakes_]

this is Japan too of course but that doesn't weaken my point

Extremes in multiple directions. Much less middle ground

 

[borzoi]

the quote on my copy of spring snow is like this. this novel is as delicate as a sushi roll...as stoic as a samurai warrior...as complex and multifaceted as the shin megami tensei series of videogames...

 

[polystyle]

Lost In Translation was an important moment in orientalism, infusing that alienation and loneliness, that cut adrift state, with poetic longing and Scarlett Johannson. I think a lot of Japanese music is now viewed/heard through that film

That movie was something !
And encapsulated a Japonism of it's own.

 

[polystyle]

The main Japan----The West conduits being Lost in Translation, anime, video games, porn. Have I forgotten anything important? Food and music to a lesser extent.

Hmmm let's see ... manga, CG, Mercari.
Rashomon, Kurosawa ( looking at you G Lucas ), architecture ( a few sorts ),
clothes & styles, trainer fetish ( and a few other fetish ),
J photographers, natural dyes, Yayoi Kusama, Mishima, Tokyo Style ( book ), robots, and so on

 

[polystyle]

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My third home

 

[polystyle]

thank you i just made it up becasue after posting the frog poem i looked to my right and noticed my Hockney book

Superflat

 

[catalog]

Pynchon:

"Tetraliths are only deployed in anger," he said. "A detail acquired from Japanese, who will never, unless they wish to offend, present you with four of anything - Japanese character for 'four' being same as that for 'death.'"

 

[other_life]

japan is no longer even just the hikikomori future, it's the NEET present

 

[other_life]

homie i live in japan right now being in the twin cities. i don't need to imagine a thing. they really took over our shit and i applaud em

 

[other_life]

The main Japan----The West conduits being Lost in Translation, anime, video games, porn. Have I forgotten anything important? Food and music to a lesser extent.

good films and even better junglism

 

[other_life]

 

[line b]

 

[IdleRich]

The repeated lyrical refrain of "I think I'm turning Japanese" was widely believed by Americans to describe an orgasm induced by masturbating, but actually was intended to describe teen angst or alienation after a romantic breakup.

 

[polystyle]

Cont. from above :

Toe socks ... makes one reconsider the foot
and i said Mercari before but it deserves another m

 

[polystyle]

Cont. from above :

Toe socks ... makes one reconsider the foot
and i said Mercari before but it deserves another m

Kwaidan !

Japanese ghost stories movie trailers 1965

 

[polystyle]

Kwaidan !

Japanese ghost stories movie trailers 1965

Del Toro on Kwaidan