So, do they rapresent Japan? In wich way? From my point of view I think they rapresent the new Japan era. In theire videos there was nothing about japanese culture (at least during the Osawa set), the images were futuristic as told before and I think the technologies used were at the level of the Japanese fame. The images were good, going fluid with the music, but there was not really a sense of them, many were stolen from old videos or famous artistic images, others were confusing because to much elaborate. The thing I didn't like the most was that in certain points the video was going to a TRASH direction. Skulls, white tigers, girls licking random stuff....we've seen this stuff in the 80's and is kinda trash now the use of this stuff.
Monday, 3 December 2007
Enlightenment
So, do they rapresent Japan? In wich way? From my point of view I think they rapresent the new Japan era. In theire videos there was nothing about japanese culture (at least during the Osawa set), the images were futuristic as told before and I think the technologies used were at the level of the Japanese fame. The images were good, going fluid with the music, but there was not really a sense of them, many were stolen from old videos or famous artistic images, others were confusing because to much elaborate. The thing I didn't like the most was that in certain points the video was going to a TRASH direction. Skulls, white tigers, girls licking random stuff....we've seen this stuff in the 80's and is kinda trash now the use of this stuff.
Monday, 26 November 2007
Health care and hospitals in Japan
Monday, 19 November 2007
The country of new tecnology
Saturday, 10 November 2007
Blog essay 2
In the second part of the entry Willy talks about his friend and how people thought he was a gaijin because he had a Spidermam's costume. He says: "Did they not think it possible for me to have a Japanese friend or for a Japanese person to dress up for Halloween?". I think often Japanese people tend to separate gaijin from Japenese people. So if u are a gaijin it's hard for them to belive you can be integate and have Japanese friends, that's why they think automatically that a friend of yours that they can't see because the mask must be gaijin too. I think they separate gaijin also because Japan has been always a bit far from others western countries, and the idea of integration in the Japan culture can seem too far for them. They use this word "gaijin" in fact, and they use it often, is a way to identify someone from a forein country but it doesn't mean forein person isnt't it? I think there is not even traslation for that word in Italian, Spanish or French...Correct me if I'm wrong!
Monday, 29 October 2007
Buskers
I also discovered a really nice Japanese band, they are already really famous! The band is called Tokyo Jihen and the beautiful singer is Shiina Ringo.
Here are some links if you wanna have a look:
Official web site (under construction)
Sunday, 21 October 2007
Mondo Grosso & Japanese clubbers
Links: Official Shinichi's myspace
In this kind of event, such as Shinichi's partys, you may like or dislike the music, but you cannot feel the energy of the Japanese clubbers. Expecially in Osaka the crowd is absolutely amazing, and is different from any other part of the world. The young kids that go to specific clubs like Triangle (shinsaibashi) is really involved in the event, they know who is playing and they know everything about that kind of music. All the people dance looking at the dj, singing and jumping...I can assure and I have been told that there are no other better places in the world for a dj to play than Osaka.
Links: Triangle club
(Pictures from World club Kyoto)
Monday, 15 October 2007
The great gig in the sky
Inside the buildin there are also shops and restaurant, but mostly offices. That day there were also some second hand music markets. You can find there old japanese and international vinyls, books, clothes, and very cheap instruments!!! Is possible to buy a good acoustic guitar for 5000 yen (unfortunally I bought a small crappy one 3 days before for 4500!!!!).