Why Cant We Be Friends?

Why can’t we be friends?

Touhou "Bad apple" (shadow picture version)

The original was a BGM in PC games, "Tohou project", made by a coterie in Japan.

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5HTeT_dis )

After various music versions were made by growing Touho funs, this version was released from a music coterie.

An fun listening to the music got images of PV and asked another anonymous to draw them, on internet.

（http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgXkz0iRhgU）

This shadow picture video is one of the responses to asking.

The making process is another beautiful part. 

Zetgeist 2011: Year in Review

"2011" is very special, I remember. 

Modernity is often defined in terms of humanism, either as a way of saluting the birth of ‘man’ or as a way of announcing his death. But this habit itself is modern, because it remains asymmetrical. It overlooks the simultaneous birth of ‘nonhumanity’ - things, or objects, or beasts - and the equally strange beginning of a crossed-out God, relegated to the sidelines. Modernity arises first from the conjoined creation of those three entities, and then from the masking of the conjoined birth and the separate treatment of the three communities while, underneath, hybrids continue to multiply as an effect of this separate treatment. The double separation is what we have to reconstruct: the separation between humans and nonhumans on the one hand, and between what happens ‘above’ and what happens ‘below’ on the other.

Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (via particlesofthings)

Q. Why does Totoro attarct us?

I can say that Hayao's work is the recreation of premodern stories: myths and folktales. Non-humans is saying "we are the part of the world, too!" The ontology is different from the modern one.

Question. Why do we need this kind of stories when no one believes there would be big Totoros in forests? Entertainment? People like something strange? Enviromentalism? Hayao's talent? Or...

.(period)

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