I saw a clip of the "reality" show "Intervention"
How can anyone believe that these people actually signed a release form to be viewed?
It's a complete lie.
They trick these people into signing something,
and in this age of of easy forgeries and copies they try to make use believe that someone has actually agreed to have their life on permanent display.
Weak people. People with problems. People who don't really have bad problems until the tv fuckers screw them over.
Its big money, they need drama.
Someone whose business has run fine for years, but whose family decides that they do too much of something, usually a moralizing bunch of christian fucks who are scumming off the stigmatized "addict" who's doing well, and suddenly the business starts failing, bad things start happening, customers leave, suppliers don't come through.
It's done to these poor people on purpose.
These people did not sign any release, they were tricked.
The drama and crumbling life around them is manufactured by hordes of PA's, actors, producers, paying longtime customers and suppliers to leave, character assasination in the "addicts" local community by paid actors pretending to know them and slandering them.
A neighborhood they've contributed to for years suddenly turns hostile towards them.
They don't understand.
The big secret.
Everyone around them is an actor in the big secret game.
They know something's wrong, but thousands of dollars are being spent to set them up for failure.
They've been doing fine for years, just been ostracised and stigmatized by their evil christian familes, and the very christian interventionists.
I think they should need to have a video affirmation at the very start that completely explains to the "addict"/"subject"/"victim" what's up and what may be involved and the victim should have to state in plain english, "I know that I am on theIntervention TV show."
Because the fact is, they don't know, and people around them are fake people sent to set them up and tear them down, wear them down and cut them up.
It's one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.
And what REALLY pisses me off.....
Do you think the "addicts" that they harass for months on end, undermining, backstabbing and destroying their lives, do you think these victims get paid for their suffering?
The show makes millions, I bet their victims don't see a cent, or get some paltry couple grand.
I wonder if that guy who died actually got cirrhosis from drinking.
In the interests of drama, who's to say these people won't poison their victims drinks. Smokers dying from cancer right near the end of the season, as if on cue, killed by a poisoned cigarette offered to them by a planted actor. Drug addicts getting brain damage from "dirty" drugs, spiked in the interests of ratings by the producers themselves.
You know, I bet they spend half a million screwing these peoples lives up.
Could you imagine how many of these "addicts", marginalized and stigmatized for years, would be able to pick themselves up and start a new life, themselves, with half a mil?
More than half of them, if given the half a mil would be able to get themselves a new live doing what they really want to do, which is why they are probably down anyway, the CHRISTIANS running the intervention and and their christian families all with their expectations and stigmatizations, don't respect the life they really want to lead.
It's the way christians have worked for centuries.
Stone and burn the ones who won't submit to control.
I wonder to myself how many of these people, the victims, are atheists or pagans.
It seems to me "Intervention" has a clear christian bias, and maybe that's it's purpose, to beat down and break down non believers, force them to nothing so they will convert.
Discrimination and exploitation, that's what I see on "Intervention".
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Will he survive the Inquisition? Perhaps we should gather wood...
So I just posted my OPUS MAGNUM in progess,
The Small Great Book of Atheist Spirituality.
The Great Book of Atheist Spirituality being a considerably larger piece of research to chew on in my magnificent current economic state.
Too bad nobody ever listens to me anyway.
Who knows?
Maybe some rabid xtian will try to kill me for it.
They do that in Canada you know, kill people for saying what they think.
Canada is full of queer hating, atheist hating, colored folk hating rednecks,
regardless of the fluffy media portrayal of Canada as a place where everyone gets along.
It's BS.
Go to Shittown, Alberta.
Or any other hick Canadian town an hour away from a large city.
Take a look around.
How many black people you see?
You might see some chinese, but usually just a local restaurant owner.
Not a turban in sight.
Yee - Haww
Backwash Canada regularly murders faggots and bull dykes who stray from the city
believing the media lies of a welcoming place where all belong
Murders unsolved for years, and never will be
even tho every hick in town knows who dunnit.
Funny thing is, if JESUS was hitch hiking through Canada,
yes that long haired hippie in sandals, wearing a gown, unshaven, preaching love and acceptance
Jesus himself would get the shit kicked out of him anywhere outside a major canadian city.
He would. He'd get fucking murdered.
And no one would know.
The cops would stand there and go:
"shoulda cut his damn hair and put some jeans on, hippie faggot..."
The Small Great Book of Atheist Spirituality.
The Great Book of Atheist Spirituality being a considerably larger piece of research to chew on in my magnificent current economic state.
Too bad nobody ever listens to me anyway.
Who knows?
Maybe some rabid xtian will try to kill me for it.
They do that in Canada you know, kill people for saying what they think.
Canada is full of queer hating, atheist hating, colored folk hating rednecks,
regardless of the fluffy media portrayal of Canada as a place where everyone gets along.
It's BS.
Go to Shittown, Alberta.
Or any other hick Canadian town an hour away from a large city.
Take a look around.
How many black people you see?
You might see some chinese, but usually just a local restaurant owner.
Not a turban in sight.
Yee - Haww
Backwash Canada regularly murders faggots and bull dykes who stray from the city
believing the media lies of a welcoming place where all belong
Murders unsolved for years, and never will be
even tho every hick in town knows who dunnit.
Funny thing is, if JESUS was hitch hiking through Canada,
yes that long haired hippie in sandals, wearing a gown, unshaven, preaching love and acceptance
Jesus himself would get the shit kicked out of him anywhere outside a major canadian city.
He would. He'd get fucking murdered.
And no one would know.
The cops would stand there and go:
"shoulda cut his damn hair and put some jeans on, hippie faggot..."
Cointelpro vs. Canadian culture
Ever even heard of Cointelpro?
They try to make it sound like a thing of the past, the old ways.
It's not dead. It never stopped it's activities.
We see so much media from the States that we think we too are protected by Congress.
Any country other than the U.S. is under constant attack from COINTELPRO and it's related program MOCKINGBIRD.
You have no protection.
The aim is total world subservience to U.S. interests.
When we consider the millions of dollars the US has spent in the "Liberation" of Iraq, or more preciseley of Iraq's oil, then the amount of money spent on Cointelpro against Canadian culture is miniscule, but has almost as drastic an effect on our country and its people.
For only a few thousand dollars a year each the CIA can hire right wing hipsters and pay for an army of groovy cool backstabbers to decimate any Canadian artist, organization, or cultural entity that they deem too "radical" or "against U.S. interests in the region"
The "Church" committee and its investigations only extend protection to the citizens of the US,
Canada is a valid target.
Canada has always been a target of Cointelpro. The reserves of oil in the Canadian tarsands equal the amount under Iraq. Canadian water is shipped down south by the millions of litres while the communities served by those water supplies experience water shortages.
Feminize whole provinces with estrogen tainted water made by subsidiaries of U.S. corporations, after scaring everyone into bottled water by allowing public waterworks to to degrade.
Some crazy revolutionary poet or artist wants to rail against the system,
surround them with CIA hipsters, there are at least a thousand in every Canadian city
Character assassination and dirty gossip are as good as bullets, paid officials in Canada's arts community make sure nothing radical gets funding.
Take a look...
Lots of queer, feminist, world poverty stories and poems.
You don't see any radical left poets or authors printed in Canada.
Do you believe there aren't any?
In poetry slams across the country, the content we hear, is never the content we see.
It's Cointelpro vs. Canadian culture
They try to make it sound like a thing of the past, the old ways.
It's not dead. It never stopped it's activities.
We see so much media from the States that we think we too are protected by Congress.
Any country other than the U.S. is under constant attack from COINTELPRO and it's related program MOCKINGBIRD.
You have no protection.
The aim is total world subservience to U.S. interests.
When we consider the millions of dollars the US has spent in the "Liberation" of Iraq, or more preciseley of Iraq's oil, then the amount of money spent on Cointelpro against Canadian culture is miniscule, but has almost as drastic an effect on our country and its people.
For only a few thousand dollars a year each the CIA can hire right wing hipsters and pay for an army of groovy cool backstabbers to decimate any Canadian artist, organization, or cultural entity that they deem too "radical" or "against U.S. interests in the region"
The "Church" committee and its investigations only extend protection to the citizens of the US,
Canada is a valid target.
Canada has always been a target of Cointelpro. The reserves of oil in the Canadian tarsands equal the amount under Iraq. Canadian water is shipped down south by the millions of litres while the communities served by those water supplies experience water shortages.
Feminize whole provinces with estrogen tainted water made by subsidiaries of U.S. corporations, after scaring everyone into bottled water by allowing public waterworks to to degrade.
Some crazy revolutionary poet or artist wants to rail against the system,
surround them with CIA hipsters, there are at least a thousand in every Canadian city
Character assassination and dirty gossip are as good as bullets, paid officials in Canada's arts community make sure nothing radical gets funding.
Take a look...
Lots of queer, feminist, world poverty stories and poems.
You don't see any radical left poets or authors printed in Canada.
Do you believe there aren't any?
In poetry slams across the country, the content we hear, is never the content we see.
It's Cointelpro vs. Canadian culture
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Rituals of Spring
Wondering again how much a whisper on the web
An idea crosses
The Skein
Minds interlink in Rituals of Spring
Old fears cleansed to become Skyclad
Naked is how we are in Mind
In the Glade
For many years I've been writing and painting.
Canada doesn't seem to be working for me.
The cultural dissolution and suppression
Sicken me
They throw their children to the Blizzard
Become whores for rich old men
love for money
for harder drugs to forget the cold
The Blizzard takes them
The Unwanted Ones
Always so young cast away
In the spring we find them
Pig farms, ditches and fields
As the earth tries to heal
Beneath its sorrow
These foolish monkeys need to grow
And I have almost lost Hope
That they ever could have done so
Christopher Don Taylor
An idea crosses
The Skein
Minds interlink in Rituals of Spring
Old fears cleansed to become Skyclad
Naked is how we are in Mind
In the Glade
For many years I've been writing and painting.
Canada doesn't seem to be working for me.
The cultural dissolution and suppression
Sicken me
They throw their children to the Blizzard
Become whores for rich old men
love for money
for harder drugs to forget the cold
The Blizzard takes them
The Unwanted Ones
Always so young cast away
In the spring we find them
Pig farms, ditches and fields
As the earth tries to heal
Beneath its sorrow
These foolish monkeys need to grow
And I have almost lost Hope
That they ever could have done so
Christopher Don Taylor
The Culling
Fear. All over the news. Constantly.
Movies and TV. Commandos and assassins, rah rah military man.
How many people do we watch killed on tv before we're 20 years old?
Hunting down aliens and nazis in the underground secret bunker tunnels we plaster them all over the walls with the secret super rail gun. Disarm the devious slicer trap. Get the passcode.
After commanding my RTS domain and keeping out the armed invaders, I ramble.
Dazed, pondering the culling. My friend wanders along his usual topics of secret societies and groups of puppet masters filling their pockets with the sweat of underlings while devising the control of the emerging world.
The culling he says. A big epidemic. The rich will have medicine quickly and everyone else will be fucked. Fucked over by the theoretical concept of pure capitalism.
Because to be effective and keep the population healthy medical aid can't be a profit generator.
As soon as it is, then some will have medicine and some won't. The poor will lose their savings and land to richer folk who can afford to stay healthy.
A lot of people are profiting on the misery of others.
So back to the culling.
Maybe that should be capitalized. The Culling.
History has shown us quite clearly, on our own continent and around the world, how effective a simple affliction can be in retarding the progress of someone who’s living on land that you want.
The ownership of land is a pretty common motivation in historical records of human conflict and atrocity.
So my friends keeps on about the puppet masters and secret societies, the rich and powerful and how they’re obsessed with control, because this system isn’t stable either, and whoever’s in power over the next 20 years will gain the means through technology, weaponry, and surveillance, to maintain their control over the population indefinitely.
By filling us with fear. By telling us it costs too much to have an industry wide comprehensive Mad Cow screening process. It will cost too much to have nationwide vaccines available free for everybody for the next epidemic.
Hmm. I bet the expenses incurred by our politicians in limousine service, catering, and convention/meeting costs alone would pay for every man woman and child getting vaccinated for free within one week of a true epidemic.
We have the technology. We have the logistical ability.
The stumbling block is simply:
“We can’t give something away for free, especially medicine, do you know how much that costs to make?”
The cost.
Millions of people will die of an epidemic flu or other pathogen within the next 10 – 20 years unless we have a research, manufacturing, and distribution system in place for mass inoculation.
But it’s not going to happen. Not until AFTER there is a big death. It costs money and doesn’t generate profit.
Profit will be the motive for not being prepared.
We live in a world progressing very quickly.
Cloning of a human is already occurring somewhere on this planet. With huge amounts of money behind it, there are numerous private labs in the world right now working on the problem.
My friend continues to tell me that it won’t be a naturally mutated strain that causes the next epidemic. It will be a manipulated strain. Nature’s efficient killer, tweaked in a lab to give it that extra zing. He goes on about the usual suspects. The Culling. The puppet masters, clearing land for vacation properties and profit.
I kind of step back from the conspiracy theories and the specific names and just focus on the main idea,
That we don’t have a free drug manufacture and distribution system, that nature has an epidemic cycle of every hundred years or so, and that cycle is shortened by the ability of people to manipulate nature’s deadly bugs and create new strains.
After everybody’s been cleared away. The rich, who didn’t have delays getting their vaccinations, will play some golf and wait for their replacement body parts and organs to be cloned.
I think I need to go watch some cartoons…
Christopher Don Taylor
Movies and TV. Commandos and assassins, rah rah military man.
How many people do we watch killed on tv before we're 20 years old?
Hunting down aliens and nazis in the underground secret bunker tunnels we plaster them all over the walls with the secret super rail gun. Disarm the devious slicer trap. Get the passcode.
After commanding my RTS domain and keeping out the armed invaders, I ramble.
Dazed, pondering the culling. My friend wanders along his usual topics of secret societies and groups of puppet masters filling their pockets with the sweat of underlings while devising the control of the emerging world.
The culling he says. A big epidemic. The rich will have medicine quickly and everyone else will be fucked. Fucked over by the theoretical concept of pure capitalism.
Because to be effective and keep the population healthy medical aid can't be a profit generator.
As soon as it is, then some will have medicine and some won't. The poor will lose their savings and land to richer folk who can afford to stay healthy.
A lot of people are profiting on the misery of others.
So back to the culling.
Maybe that should be capitalized. The Culling.
History has shown us quite clearly, on our own continent and around the world, how effective a simple affliction can be in retarding the progress of someone who’s living on land that you want.
The ownership of land is a pretty common motivation in historical records of human conflict and atrocity.
So my friends keeps on about the puppet masters and secret societies, the rich and powerful and how they’re obsessed with control, because this system isn’t stable either, and whoever’s in power over the next 20 years will gain the means through technology, weaponry, and surveillance, to maintain their control over the population indefinitely.
By filling us with fear. By telling us it costs too much to have an industry wide comprehensive Mad Cow screening process. It will cost too much to have nationwide vaccines available free for everybody for the next epidemic.
Hmm. I bet the expenses incurred by our politicians in limousine service, catering, and convention/meeting costs alone would pay for every man woman and child getting vaccinated for free within one week of a true epidemic.
We have the technology. We have the logistical ability.
The stumbling block is simply:
“We can’t give something away for free, especially medicine, do you know how much that costs to make?”
The cost.
Millions of people will die of an epidemic flu or other pathogen within the next 10 – 20 years unless we have a research, manufacturing, and distribution system in place for mass inoculation.
But it’s not going to happen. Not until AFTER there is a big death. It costs money and doesn’t generate profit.
Profit will be the motive for not being prepared.
We live in a world progressing very quickly.
Cloning of a human is already occurring somewhere on this planet. With huge amounts of money behind it, there are numerous private labs in the world right now working on the problem.
My friend continues to tell me that it won’t be a naturally mutated strain that causes the next epidemic. It will be a manipulated strain. Nature’s efficient killer, tweaked in a lab to give it that extra zing. He goes on about the usual suspects. The Culling. The puppet masters, clearing land for vacation properties and profit.
I kind of step back from the conspiracy theories and the specific names and just focus on the main idea,
That we don’t have a free drug manufacture and distribution system, that nature has an epidemic cycle of every hundred years or so, and that cycle is shortened by the ability of people to manipulate nature’s deadly bugs and create new strains.
After everybody’s been cleared away. The rich, who didn’t have delays getting their vaccinations, will play some golf and wait for their replacement body parts and organs to be cloned.
I think I need to go watch some cartoons…
Christopher Don Taylor
Scour
Rubbing harder
something
more abrasive
scraping
not necessarily wounding
often ripping away
only dead skin
revealing pink flesh
that was hidden
beneath old scars
the raw sensation
of clean
cleansed
Christopher Don Taylor
Archetripal on Myspace - mellow electronica and acoustic
Archetripal on Myspace - mellow electronica and acoustic guitar stuff
It's kind of dreamy and wierd.
It's me...
http://www.myspace.com/archetripal
It's kind of dreamy and wierd.
It's me...
http://www.myspace.com/archetripal
Thursday, December 29, 2005
DIY: Movies by anyone.
Hollywood sucks for the most part.
They lament the decline in moviegoers and spend oodles tracking down people who download their content instead of fixing the core problems.
Shitty movies. Remakes of Remakes. General this and sir that and lets blow something up.
Stick it to the Man and get the car chase started. So much fucking crap.
Huge mounds of crap. With a few tiny perls occassionaly scattered throughout.
Almost every mainstream movie has Authority, God, Death represented. Drivel.
Unbelievably expensive prices. Kids expect popcorn and a family movie night passes the $50 mark before you even get to the $3 each of soda and the $20 of popcorn that would cost less than a buck if you were at home. Two adults can easily spend $40 to see a new movie.
High prices for DVD's. $30 - $50 for something that cost less than a buck to produce?
Then they try to squeeze every last drop out of the dvd sales before releasing the film to TV so 3 years later you get to see a movie on the cable you pay $50 for.
I think something cool is about to happen. I honestly think we will see a strong emergence of Machinima this year. Using "The Movies" or the "Half Life 2" editing suite any person with a half decent computer can tell their story.
Circumventing all boundaries to scriptwriting or moviemaking. It may take a couple more years to really catch on but developers are starting to refine their editing and cutscene creation tools to facilitate easier machinima with game tools.
The next cool movie may not be real actors at all. Not even a special effects team. Just one person sitting at a chair anywhere in the world saying their piece.
They lament the decline in moviegoers and spend oodles tracking down people who download their content instead of fixing the core problems.
Shitty movies. Remakes of Remakes. General this and sir that and lets blow something up.
Stick it to the Man and get the car chase started. So much fucking crap.
Huge mounds of crap. With a few tiny perls occassionaly scattered throughout.
Almost every mainstream movie has Authority, God, Death represented. Drivel.
Unbelievably expensive prices. Kids expect popcorn and a family movie night passes the $50 mark before you even get to the $3 each of soda and the $20 of popcorn that would cost less than a buck if you were at home. Two adults can easily spend $40 to see a new movie.
High prices for DVD's. $30 - $50 for something that cost less than a buck to produce?
Then they try to squeeze every last drop out of the dvd sales before releasing the film to TV so 3 years later you get to see a movie on the cable you pay $50 for.
I think something cool is about to happen. I honestly think we will see a strong emergence of Machinima this year. Using "The Movies" or the "Half Life 2" editing suite any person with a half decent computer can tell their story.
Circumventing all boundaries to scriptwriting or moviemaking. It may take a couple more years to really catch on but developers are starting to refine their editing and cutscene creation tools to facilitate easier machinima with game tools.
The next cool movie may not be real actors at all. Not even a special effects team. Just one person sitting at a chair anywhere in the world saying their piece.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Noiseman Sound Insect
Noiseman Sound Insect is an anime by Koji Morimoto. There are numerous webpages documenting the production work and crew of this film which a user may find easily through searching. There are no pages currently known that actually describe or seem to understand the subject matter however. The other works of Morimoto have had wide reaching effect within the world of Anime, and his work on the cult film Akira makes an assessment of this far more personal visionary work important.
This is sort of a review, but really it's a viewers guide. I had to watch this film many times before it really clicked on what was happening. It's an addictive piece of film however, and the musical score is fantastic.
Beautiful, dense, lush, and filled with metaphorical content, its actual dialogue is cryptic and sparse. On first viewing it would almost seem to be a music video of a very strange Yoko Kanno song. Except that she mostly makes songs specifically for anime soundtracks, not the other way around.
The work is of course in Japanese, and no english dub has been made, most probably because the music and dialogue are intricately linked. Thankfully the subtitles of the work translate the words of not only the characters but the incidental voices of the soundtrack as well.
Because of the subtlety and complexity of the metaporical content, the language barrier to non-Japanese may make it difficult to see the concepts presented. That is why I have attempted to define 2 of the main concepts presented.
The Story and some of its Meanings
{spoiler alert} This anime is predominately about 2 main concepts, different drugs and the types of people who use them, and different styles of music and the people who associate with them.
Noiseman, the strange squeeky voiced alien antagonist, can be seen as the raver kid down your street. He comes home late with his little sporty car shaking and booming as he fills the peaceful neighborhood's space with his pounding dance music. Noiseman likes Crystals, such as crystal meth, ecstasy, cocaine. Music is almost a weapon to him and he has no regard to his neighbors, he is very selfish and only cares about his Crystals and his noise, he keeps the souls of people captive in his noise machine.
The people of the village mostly love juice, which is analogous to wine and other alchohols. Those who love juice are portrayed as relaxed and fun people, and their music is much more relaxed and human. In fact they actually love simple music that is based on the beauty of human singing. In their pure "soul" form after their escape from Noiseman they are like a choir.
The young people who race around chasing little noises and souls and trying to catch them are at first all about action and speed, but when one of them eats a fruit that flies into his speeder from the lake after a crash he is transported to a new state of mind. The water and the fruit are accompanied by very mellow psychedelic "chill" music. The fruit can be seen as psilocybic mushrooms, or perhaps marijuana, but the hallucinative effects of the fruit are clear and the effect on the young man's mind, making him stop his speeding around and focusing on the watery environment around him clearly represent psychedelic experiences.
When the Noiseman is defeated, the true voice of the people can be heard and they stand in the calm of a natural glade with the sounds of nature while a simple song "Trees make Seeds" about life, birth, death, and life feeding on life plays out.
This is sort of a review, but really it's a viewers guide. I had to watch this film many times before it really clicked on what was happening. It's an addictive piece of film however, and the musical score is fantastic.
Beautiful, dense, lush, and filled with metaphorical content, its actual dialogue is cryptic and sparse. On first viewing it would almost seem to be a music video of a very strange Yoko Kanno song. Except that she mostly makes songs specifically for anime soundtracks, not the other way around.
The work is of course in Japanese, and no english dub has been made, most probably because the music and dialogue are intricately linked. Thankfully the subtitles of the work translate the words of not only the characters but the incidental voices of the soundtrack as well.
Because of the subtlety and complexity of the metaporical content, the language barrier to non-Japanese may make it difficult to see the concepts presented. That is why I have attempted to define 2 of the main concepts presented.
The Story and some of its Meanings
{spoiler alert} This anime is predominately about 2 main concepts, different drugs and the types of people who use them, and different styles of music and the people who associate with them.
Noiseman, the strange squeeky voiced alien antagonist, can be seen as the raver kid down your street. He comes home late with his little sporty car shaking and booming as he fills the peaceful neighborhood's space with his pounding dance music. Noiseman likes Crystals, such as crystal meth, ecstasy, cocaine. Music is almost a weapon to him and he has no regard to his neighbors, he is very selfish and only cares about his Crystals and his noise, he keeps the souls of people captive in his noise machine.
The people of the village mostly love juice, which is analogous to wine and other alchohols. Those who love juice are portrayed as relaxed and fun people, and their music is much more relaxed and human. In fact they actually love simple music that is based on the beauty of human singing. In their pure "soul" form after their escape from Noiseman they are like a choir.
The young people who race around chasing little noises and souls and trying to catch them are at first all about action and speed, but when one of them eats a fruit that flies into his speeder from the lake after a crash he is transported to a new state of mind. The water and the fruit are accompanied by very mellow psychedelic "chill" music. The fruit can be seen as psilocybic mushrooms, or perhaps marijuana, but the hallucinative effects of the fruit are clear and the effect on the young man's mind, making him stop his speeding around and focusing on the watery environment around him clearly represent psychedelic experiences.
When the Noiseman is defeated, the true voice of the people can be heard and they stand in the calm of a natural glade with the sounds of nature while a simple song "Trees make Seeds" about life, birth, death, and life feeding on life plays out.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Ghost in the Shell - the beauty of wiki
I made some wikipedia contributions today to wiki pages that were already going but needed some extra info. I really dig the concept. So here the are:
Ghost in the Shell
{spoiler alert} Another interpretation of the fusion of Kusanagi and the Puppet Master in the film version is more analogous to the concept of Birth where two separate entities create a third entity which is not the same as either of the originating Ghosts/DNA sets but shares common traits. The Puppet Master does not wish to merely save himself from termination, to do so he could simply ask Kusanagi to give him shared space in her memory cores that she could offload later into another robotic receptacle. He quite specifically asks her to fuse her "ghost" or "soul" with his own, a form of marriage/birth in which the resultant being is neither the Puppet Master nor Kusanagi but a new being entirely. This touches upon concepts of birth, immortality through progeny, and the union of two ghosts/people in the creation of progeny.
A very important concept within this work is that evolution is the process of fusing (procreation) two sets of data(DNA) in order to create a 3rd set of data which contains the most vital elements of the original organisms along with some element of chance. the Puppet Master has evolved beyond DNA as a data set and thus to procreate this new organism (a soul not born of dna) a new paradigm of data merging needs to be contemplated for which he has sought Kusanagi out. This is a merger of two operating "souls" or "ghosts" into one mind, which is specifically different than birth while being analogous to it at the same time
Throughout the film the cyborg characters, being more or less a human brain with a manufactured body, contemplate individually and together what being human really is, and how a soul or ghost is truly defined. The Puppet Master is an AI, yet they recognize traits and personality within his mind structure that are clearly analogous to a human soul or ghost image. They cannot discount this similiarity as it is very clearly analysed by their medical scanning tools when they first capture the Puppet Master. The members of Section 9 must re-evaluate their own tenuous hold on the idea of humanity and "I", when faced with a being who clearly is self directed and has a ghost but was originated as a complex program not a DNA organism.
Although purists of Manga may consider the movie to be inferior, distilling 8 manga issues into the length of a feature, it ranks among sci fi fans as a serious pinnacle of speculative fiction in movies.
One of the first Anime features to "cross over" to the sci fi adherents not typically associated or exposed to manga/anime, Ghost in the Shell managed to convert large numbers of sci fi audiences to the possibilities of Anime as an art form, a feat accomplished by only one other anime feature - Akira. Its deep philosophical subject matter, beautiful textures and backdrops, and subsuming of technology to the emotional/spiritual concerns of the individual characters have earned it a place amongst some of the greatest sci fi movies of all time. Many viewers could easily rank Ghost in the Shell as being at the same level of aesthetic excellence as Blade Runner, the first Alien movie, or 2001.
As a side note regarding Oshii's condensation of the manga, consider the dense Philip K. Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which Blade Runner is based on and see how many of Mr. Dick's many detailed subplots actually make it into the movie.
Oshii's adaptation of the manga is filled with awe inspiring cinematic sequences containing depth, detail, focus and perspective previously unrealized in movie Anime as an art form. The musical score, although perhaps grating at first to western ears, is deep and emotional, and the attention to detail in weather/crowds/technological implementations/etc. is far beyond the simplified action sequences and economical guerilla animation style used by anime features previous to this work.
A second feature, Ghost in the Shell:Innocence has been released by Oshii which places the character of Batou in the lead role. A beautiful film, filled with depth and philosophical ponderings, it is unrelated to the original manga and yet stands alone as an evolution of Anime in film and a definitive sequel to the original film feature. It was a nominee at Cannes in 2004 for best picture.
Added to "Levels - computer gaming"
Map design is now commonly known as "Modding" (Mod_(computer_gaming)) in most games.
Originally "Modding" was a specific term to delineate a "pack" (Pak) of custom user created levels that also included some form of programming to change the abilities/weapons/environmental effects of the core game on which the mod was built. A "Mod" was a more sophisticated customization of the game than a "Map" which was simply a new level or set of levels which could be played within the original game's engine. This distinction has gradually receded and a "mod" can now be simply a map or level with no programming changes to the core game.
Although pure "modding" takes a certain amount of programming ability, to simply create new "levels" for a game a user only needs to access and digest the information and tools available to the modding community for that particular title. Some game titles have advanced support and tools for mapping and modding while others are not open to customization.
Ghost in the Shell
{spoiler alert} Another interpretation of the fusion of Kusanagi and the Puppet Master in the film version is more analogous to the concept of Birth where two separate entities create a third entity which is not the same as either of the originating Ghosts/DNA sets but shares common traits. The Puppet Master does not wish to merely save himself from termination, to do so he could simply ask Kusanagi to give him shared space in her memory cores that she could offload later into another robotic receptacle. He quite specifically asks her to fuse her "ghost" or "soul" with his own, a form of marriage/birth in which the resultant being is neither the Puppet Master nor Kusanagi but a new being entirely. This touches upon concepts of birth, immortality through progeny, and the union of two ghosts/people in the creation of progeny.
A very important concept within this work is that evolution is the process of fusing (procreation) two sets of data(DNA) in order to create a 3rd set of data which contains the most vital elements of the original organisms along with some element of chance. the Puppet Master has evolved beyond DNA as a data set and thus to procreate this new organism (a soul not born of dna) a new paradigm of data merging needs to be contemplated for which he has sought Kusanagi out. This is a merger of two operating "souls" or "ghosts" into one mind, which is specifically different than birth while being analogous to it at the same time
Throughout the film the cyborg characters, being more or less a human brain with a manufactured body, contemplate individually and together what being human really is, and how a soul or ghost is truly defined. The Puppet Master is an AI, yet they recognize traits and personality within his mind structure that are clearly analogous to a human soul or ghost image. They cannot discount this similiarity as it is very clearly analysed by their medical scanning tools when they first capture the Puppet Master. The members of Section 9 must re-evaluate their own tenuous hold on the idea of humanity and "I", when faced with a being who clearly is self directed and has a ghost but was originated as a complex program not a DNA organism.
Although purists of Manga may consider the movie to be inferior, distilling 8 manga issues into the length of a feature, it ranks among sci fi fans as a serious pinnacle of speculative fiction in movies.
One of the first Anime features to "cross over" to the sci fi adherents not typically associated or exposed to manga/anime, Ghost in the Shell managed to convert large numbers of sci fi audiences to the possibilities of Anime as an art form, a feat accomplished by only one other anime feature - Akira. Its deep philosophical subject matter, beautiful textures and backdrops, and subsuming of technology to the emotional/spiritual concerns of the individual characters have earned it a place amongst some of the greatest sci fi movies of all time. Many viewers could easily rank Ghost in the Shell as being at the same level of aesthetic excellence as Blade Runner, the first Alien movie, or 2001.
As a side note regarding Oshii's condensation of the manga, consider the dense Philip K. Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which Blade Runner is based on and see how many of Mr. Dick's many detailed subplots actually make it into the movie.
Oshii's adaptation of the manga is filled with awe inspiring cinematic sequences containing depth, detail, focus and perspective previously unrealized in movie Anime as an art form. The musical score, although perhaps grating at first to western ears, is deep and emotional, and the attention to detail in weather/crowds/technological implementations/etc. is far beyond the simplified action sequences and economical guerilla animation style used by anime features previous to this work.
A second feature, Ghost in the Shell:Innocence has been released by Oshii which places the character of Batou in the lead role. A beautiful film, filled with depth and philosophical ponderings, it is unrelated to the original manga and yet stands alone as an evolution of Anime in film and a definitive sequel to the original film feature. It was a nominee at Cannes in 2004 for best picture.
Added to "Levels - computer gaming"
Map design is now commonly known as "Modding" (Mod_(computer_gaming)) in most games.
Originally "Modding" was a specific term to delineate a "pack" (Pak) of custom user created levels that also included some form of programming to change the abilities/weapons/environmental effects of the core game on which the mod was built. A "Mod" was a more sophisticated customization of the game than a "Map" which was simply a new level or set of levels which could be played within the original game's engine. This distinction has gradually receded and a "mod" can now be simply a map or level with no programming changes to the core game.
Although pure "modding" takes a certain amount of programming ability, to simply create new "levels" for a game a user only needs to access and digest the information and tools available to the modding community for that particular title. Some game titles have advanced support and tools for mapping and modding while others are not open to customization.
Friday, September 23, 2005
NO Dogs on the cafe patio.
Fuck this bugs me.
All across Canada public health inspectors threaten to close down shops everyday because their customers wish to sit outside consuming the products they've purchased with their dog sitting beside them.
If a cafe or bar doesn't force the client to remove the dog from the patio they run the risk of their license for a patio being revoked?
WTF?
Why? Why do we allow these puritanical fuckheads to make sweeping dictates like this? Its not like the dog is dirtier than the cement that the customers chair is sitting on.
In many places in Europe you can actually take your dog inside the cafe.
Our Canadian society is so programmed to listen to these peurile victorian dictates and not complain. Why? Why do we let our local councils pit cafe owners against their clients? I'm out walking my dog. I want to stop for a coffee. My beautiful friendly dog is not allowed on the filthy cement of the patio because of "health regulations"? What?
Its fucking bullshit.
What makes it even more sickening and fucked up is that a cafe owner who is perfectly willing to pay a bit extra for a special permit to allow dogs on their patio can't do it, because there is no such thing.
Sure I can understand that some people are afraid of dogs. But cafe owners should be able to choose if they wish to have a patio where walk by traffic that consists of people who are walking their dogs can sit and consume (the dogs don't seem to be a health hazard walking on the street).
These bullshit puritanical rules everywhere are sick. They don't take into account the realities of modern life.
We live in fucking crappy boxes without enough greenspace, we need pets to keep our sanity in this screwy world. Why the fuck can't we sit and have a coffee with our friend beside us.
People with aids, herpes, gonnorhea, the flu, excema, or just plain bad personal hygiene can walk right into the cafe and sit down. I'm certainly not saying they shouldn't, I'm just saying that the "public health" excuse is just a lazy inspector's way of avoiding the fact that they are enforcing anachronistic puritanical laws that are negatively impacting the lives of good honest people who just want to stop and PURCHASE a local product and enjoy it with their friend.
Its just plain crap.
And while I'm at it, why can't I take a well behaved and non dangerous dog on the bus? I could when I was in Calgary. I paid my fare and a separate one for my dog. They don't have any big problems with it and they get another fare.
Poor people have dogs too. They need to take their friend to the vet, or the pet store, or to the big dogpark across town.
We need to say something when we encounter outdated laws such as these that restrict access or make people feel that they are somehow "bad" for things that are normal in our life.
All across Canada public health inspectors threaten to close down shops everyday because their customers wish to sit outside consuming the products they've purchased with their dog sitting beside them.
If a cafe or bar doesn't force the client to remove the dog from the patio they run the risk of their license for a patio being revoked?
WTF?
Why? Why do we allow these puritanical fuckheads to make sweeping dictates like this? Its not like the dog is dirtier than the cement that the customers chair is sitting on.
In many places in Europe you can actually take your dog inside the cafe.
Our Canadian society is so programmed to listen to these peurile victorian dictates and not complain. Why? Why do we let our local councils pit cafe owners against their clients? I'm out walking my dog. I want to stop for a coffee. My beautiful friendly dog is not allowed on the filthy cement of the patio because of "health regulations"? What?
Its fucking bullshit.
What makes it even more sickening and fucked up is that a cafe owner who is perfectly willing to pay a bit extra for a special permit to allow dogs on their patio can't do it, because there is no such thing.
Sure I can understand that some people are afraid of dogs. But cafe owners should be able to choose if they wish to have a patio where walk by traffic that consists of people who are walking their dogs can sit and consume (the dogs don't seem to be a health hazard walking on the street).
These bullshit puritanical rules everywhere are sick. They don't take into account the realities of modern life.
We live in fucking crappy boxes without enough greenspace, we need pets to keep our sanity in this screwy world. Why the fuck can't we sit and have a coffee with our friend beside us.
People with aids, herpes, gonnorhea, the flu, excema, or just plain bad personal hygiene can walk right into the cafe and sit down. I'm certainly not saying they shouldn't, I'm just saying that the "public health" excuse is just a lazy inspector's way of avoiding the fact that they are enforcing anachronistic puritanical laws that are negatively impacting the lives of good honest people who just want to stop and PURCHASE a local product and enjoy it with their friend.
Its just plain crap.
And while I'm at it, why can't I take a well behaved and non dangerous dog on the bus? I could when I was in Calgary. I paid my fare and a separate one for my dog. They don't have any big problems with it and they get another fare.
Poor people have dogs too. They need to take their friend to the vet, or the pet store, or to the big dogpark across town.
We need to say something when we encounter outdated laws such as these that restrict access or make people feel that they are somehow "bad" for things that are normal in our life.
Monday, October 20, 2003
So why the hell do people make these blog things? Is it sort of like muttering to yourself as you putz about your house in your big fuzzy slippers? I don't imaginge that every day people are going to flock to hear the ramblings of some stranger in a housecoat wandering about talking to their dog as if they understand.
Yes I DO talk to my dog as if she understands english. Heck why not, its supposed to be good for plants, why not puppies too?
But really, with bazillions of home made diarists blogging it up and filling pages and pages of blah blah blah and angst filled personal observations I really have to wonder if anyone really ever reads the damn things.
Or is it more an exhibitionist need of the lonely socially deficit writer themselves, a sort of "write it and they will come" but with delusions of grandeur mixed into the stew of their little observational masturbation. Hard to tell.
I'm gonna have to put a counter or something, I don't think anyone will EVER read this stuff, but I don't really care.
I figured it out you see, nobody ever listens to me anyway, but it really feels good to at least say what I think about stuff. Even if its only my dog that hears it...
;)
Yes I DO talk to my dog as if she understands english. Heck why not, its supposed to be good for plants, why not puppies too?
But really, with bazillions of home made diarists blogging it up and filling pages and pages of blah blah blah and angst filled personal observations I really have to wonder if anyone really ever reads the damn things.
Or is it more an exhibitionist need of the lonely socially deficit writer themselves, a sort of "write it and they will come" but with delusions of grandeur mixed into the stew of their little observational masturbation. Hard to tell.
I'm gonna have to put a counter or something, I don't think anyone will EVER read this stuff, but I don't really care.
I figured it out you see, nobody ever listens to me anyway, but it really feels good to at least say what I think about stuff. Even if its only my dog that hears it...
;)
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