Great article on the relationship between Bulgaria and Korea with an interview with Eva Floreva a cultural ambassador.

 http://www.formalno.com/no48/%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0/%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%8A%D1%82-%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B0-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0.html

(the link works, just do 'open link in new tab).

If you wish to translate to English the translation is on the bottom of the website, easily found.

I found this interview very interesting, not only because it opens up the world and how people live in it, but, it addresses how people from different cultures can find inspiration in others , in other countries. The subject of the interview  is very talented and i was interested in how culture moves around the world, particularly with the internet.

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Hidden themes in The Wolverine, racism appropriation, orientalism ,war guilt, sexism, lotus flower.-very rough.

Having recently watched the new Wolverine film, set mainly in Japan a number of issues with the the film bothered me. One was the depiction of women , another was the way Japanese men and japanese sexuality was depicted. With the film linking violence and rape and misogyny to Japanese culture and fears of asian corporation influence over American values. Wolverine even fights a giant robot samurai in the heart of a Japanese mutli national, throwing it to one side, as he does any male asian in the film.  The posters offer some clue, also the Atomic bomb destruction of Hiroshima at the start.

Being curious about this, i decided to investigate further.

What could be going on? 

Is it just a  traditional  action with little to search deeper, is it genuinely racist and sexist...or is the director exploring something else here?

There certainly seems to be repeated themes and imagery which bears looking at closer.

In this post:

•  i will look at the posters and publicity stills for the film . These often give a clue as to the films intent, since directors and producers advertise to audiences the key points of the movie.
•  I will look at the film itself
• the music
• the script

and the directors back catalogue of films

 

 

Big Boy destroys Hiroshima as dropped by the Enola Gay.

 

Wolverine suffers the fate Japanese civillians suffer, being burned alive by an atomic bomb.

Wolverine as a drifter a 'ronin' a masterless samurai.

Wolverine and a bear: Kindred. Wolverine even slashes a tree over old territorial markings he has made, making fresh ones. The bear follows suit by urinating on the ground near a tree.

 

 

The bear is murdered by thoughtless American hunters who trash the forest and shoot the bear with poisoned arrows. Wolverine deals the bear a 'mercy kill'.

 

Later in the film Wolverine himself is shot with poisoned arrows.

At the end Wolverine deals a 'mercy kill' to his old friend who is wearing a samurai suit with bear like claws . What is he poisoned with?

This is an extremley rough draft thanks for looking. If you have opinions please leave them i always reply.

Response to my question on exhibitionism on tumblr.

Her tumblr was the only one, yet, to respond to my set question. Which was:
'Do you think the intent of the art changes if the mass of the audience use the work as a masturbation tool, rather than spending time considering the intent'. And does the work change, if the audience choose their interpretation over the artist'.

Well i was using artist as a loose term for the originator of the exhibitionism. Tumblr is full of nude blogs, mainly female who take their clothes off for a multitude of reasons. Some because their husband asks them to (caudalism) some because they find it empowering and sexual (exhibitionism) others still have an artistic or cultural exploration to mind.

So, as ever this is the beginnings of an idea i will keep returning to, chipping away till something happens, and i make art on it.

Hers is one of the more intelligent blogs, since she posts a lot about symbolism and psychomagic, so i was surprised she sees all her nude photos and masturbation photos as just an online journal. There has to be an element of exhibitionism in this, otherwise why  post online at all?
 And there is a large artistic element to her choices, it is far from random posting, but it is self exploration, i think. Certainly her blog aims for a higher purpose than just nude selfies. In my view anyway.

Anyway at the moment it is just general interest and somewhat formless.

Noticeable trend in the highest subscribed You Tube channels.

You Tube informs me of channels i might like to subscribe to when i log in, and it led me to do a very brief investigation on who these subscribers were. They fit a physical pattern, all white, all photogenic and all American. All American is in fact a euphemism for  white and heterosexual
A lot of  the highest subbed channels are run by production companies now with the 'star' a de facto actor. With the most popular videos attracting millions of views , its not surprising that television companies would try and create their own personalities to sell the advertisements.

Work in progress....

Transcript2. 'Talking shit on Facebook'.

''Ok, so I need to get a point across, because, ok- whew, im sorry my anxiety is through the roof right now''. ' 'Bitch, you need to shut the fuck up, first of all,i don't know who the fuck you think you are to be going around running your mouth talking all this shit, because you are a fake ass hoe, and, your asking us to eat dirt''. ''And you know what?, when I see you, this time I am not gonna' let you get away , this time i'm not gonna' let you just walk away and have you talk shit on Facebook''.

You think your all hard and shit bitch, because of your side kick Selina?

You guys are, I know why you guys are best friends, because your both fat ugly whores.

Selina, likes to flip things around about me and use all her stories on me, and say 'Oh Evlina got a train busted on, Evilina got busted on this and that'. The thing is bitch, you got a train busted on at a party and I know this because my brother was one of the guys, and it was outside and in the middle of the night and uh...everyone knows it too.

Sellina, your the biggest fat, no, I take that back, your the second biggest fat hoe I ever met. Mariza, your the first biggest fat hoe.

Just so you know, you should probably just jump off a bridge right now because nobody likes you, and the people who pretend to like you, who say that they are your friends, talk shit behind your back, or have talk shit about you already before you guys were friends. So get your fake ass away from your fake friends thinking that your the shit, because you can talk shit. It's not about if you can talk shit, its about if you can throw hands.

You think your all bad ass, because you beat some drunk girls ass?, Sweetheart reality check, she was drunk.

Um..what else?

Oh , and about the cancer.

You think your so funny going on and on saying 'oh she's lying about cancer, hope she dies of cancer'. Well thank you, I hope I die of cancer a natural cause not choking on a dick like you.

I hope I die of cancer ok bitch, I hope I don't die of aids, like you, like you gave my brother aids you nasty whore.

Oh yeah..calling me ugly.

Ok, bitch, I know im beautiful inside and out, I am a really nice person, so me making this video is a really big deal like since Jesus gave birth or like God gave birth to jesus or whatever.

But you pissed me off to the point where I just can't handle it anymore.

So here's how it really started.

At the movies, I went to the movies with Glenn Castro, right?

It was my first time meeting with him, he wasn't my man or my date or anything like that. I told him straight up at the beginning that we were just going as friends.

And let me tell you, as soon as I saw him, I wanted to run away, that motherfucker was ugly as shit, it was like beauty and the beast right there. And so , wego to the movies and he goes ' hey i'm going to get popcorn'. I was like 'ok'.He was gone like thirty minutes , and I go and I see him seeing him holding some girls hand. Um..i walked up to him and I was like 'what the fuck dude , you came here with me'.And I told Mariza straight up 'I, looked her right in the eye , look im not trying to have drama, im just trying to help you out because he came here with me'. Noooo, this bitch wants to roll her eyes at me and say 'what the fuck ever' and walk way. And I told her 'bitch come here, bitch come here' and did that bitch come here?, no she wants to chase after young Castro.

And then she decided to message me on Facebook after the fact,talking all this shit, telling me 'grow some meat on your bones', telling me 'that i'm flat'. Bitch!, you see this?, that's not flat, you see that?, Is that flat? I don't fucking think so you dumb whore . And you know what?, im not fat in the stomach to have ot have it either, im naturally curvy. So, for you to keep saying 'you need meat on your bones', thats just jealousy right there and jealousy is a ugly ass trait.

What else?

You think your gonna beat my ass?, really?

I mean I know im small and I know your like a sumo wrestler and I know you can fucking squish and break my ribs in two. But I will beat your ass to the ground.

Your talking about me having brain cancer?, I am so glad you think that's funny, really I do that warms my heart that your such a cold hearted, fat oompa loompa bitch get your ass back to the factory.

Um..im tired of all this shit talking over Facebook.You think your so hard, you think your so cute, you think your so skinny,you think you got big ol' boobs and shit.You think you got a big ass?

Well come here, come down to Tucson, I will hook up with you any place you want. You give me the place, you give me the time, you give me the place. When, where..what time?

And I will be there, and then everybody will see how badly I beat your ass.I'll make sure its all over Facebook, I 'll make sure its all over Twitter, i'll make sure its all over YouTube. And you can fucking save this video bitch, because this is a promise, I will tag you, I will beat your ass to the ground. Don't doubt me just cos' im small.

Do I have anything else to say? Yeah!, stop using your mouth for dick bitch, use it for food.What else?, what else?, Anywayz your a ugly dirty cunt, and I hope you choke on a dick and die.And for telling me to die of cancer your gonna' get really hated for that.,Just so you know.

You have like a whole army of beautiful girls that wanna' beat your ass and they will. Because your an ugly skank and you pass around aids.

Ohhh lets not forget her twenty pounds of make up, I know your four hundred pounds but when you dress make up like this.

'Oh look I’m Mariza, lets hold our boobies out on Face book, its so classy of you, your right, your so very very right Mariza, I am such a hoe'

Because I can walk around with class and I can walk around with pants, and I don’t need a bunch of make up for guys to call me pretty. I don't need to show cleavage like you, and I don;t need to turn around and show my ass to get a bunch of likes on a picture or to get it a lot of attention from guys.

So you know what you need to do?, you need to shut the fuck up and you need to choke on a dick and you need to die.

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I have been transcribing random  youtube  videos  for a while now , as well as porno films and news items. Still not sure where it is taking me, but it will lead to a fully developed series of works.

You can read my first transcript here at this link.

 http://sundersartwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/czech-casting-porn-transcript.html

Rough movie calender design, part1.

Just an idea i am working on- very rough draft.

edit2/9/13
  Man...this is so interesting when i look back at the pictures i chose, that were initially intended to just be funny. Look at the images of women i chose, versus the images of men. This was all a subconscious choice. This culture is so subtle, it sneaks up.