"Words of a Dwarf"-ish quotes
"Words of a Dwarf" does not necessarily convey my own thoughts.
It only questions the transformation of my own thoughts.
"A vine rather than a reed, however, a vine might grew a few more vines itself."
From "Words of a dwarf" Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Reproductive instincts induce artistic activities.
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I would rather be in a chaos of happening, than observing it from outside and forever wondering how it is inside.
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Many say, "Don't preach idealism", however, few say "Don't sing about it."
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Artists should remain being terrorists against art itself.
Let us wander in the darkness of the night.
We all hope that the fire would destroy everything.
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Nihilism is the answer to the problems of losers; they dive deep into their escaping hole and come out with further detestation.
There is no pleasure in escaping, and furthermore, it is getting worse every time they repeating it.
But then again, they relinquish with the words, "that is the way it".
The worst thing of all that they somehow know it is wrong.
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The invention of a well temperament started symbolizes music.
Before that, music was physical reactions, which could have strong influence over mind and body.
Nowadays, music turned into just the notes and symbols: music in general only understood by population who shares the similar cultural backgrounds such as language, geographical, and similarities in age and generation.
Burn the symbolization, release and blast the primitive power of music.
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Fuck the dream.
Fuck the memory.
Love THIS REALITY.
Fuck the future.
Fuck the past.
Live THIS MOMENT.
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I learned that his expression is based on "food, clothing and shelter", after I met a butoh dancer named Kazuo Ohno.
It was the most important thing I leaned from this encounter.
That plain and rather naked reflection of daily activity is the art.
Gifted Japanese comedians such as Yasushi Yokoyama, Kanbi Fujiyama was able to grab everyone with just a word, which simply comes from their unique lives they lived, before their delivery or the techniques that they have.
If an ordinary person did something odd onstage, it only looked like someone ordinary doing something odd.
Stand-up comedians, actors and dancers should always be comedians, actors and dancers off stage; NOT they should be comedians, actors and dancers ONLY when they are on stage.
The expression is the output, and "food clothing and shelter" is the input.
You eat something ordinary, you disembowel as it is.
Abnormal ingestion causes abnormal extrication.
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Mr. Taro Okamoto faced me, gazed into my eye and told me, "Forget everything."
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The cerebellum controls the motor function of performance; the cerebrum controls the expression and intension.
The training starts from how to accept its inevitability, rest assured the physical aspects such as muscular functions and development.
There is no soul on the tip of a finger. It is just one of the biological parts, even the brain, which control the rest of the part, is still a part of them.
I believe we should develop those parts for their functionality accordingly.
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I am a musical situationist. I counterattack (contre-attaque) every spectacles I encounter, immediately.
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People tell the terror of manipulation by the propaganda through false broadcasting during the WWII, however, they do not seem to be disturbed by the current mass communication at all.
They accept everything as it was 60 years ago.
Brainwashing.
Do you have your own values and views?
Have you ever believed that they came assembled through your own experience?
Are sure that they are not transplanted by mass Media?
The media has much stronger power and illusion of a reality that looks far authentic than 60 years ago, so as the falsehood.
I abandoned such medias long time ago. TV Newspapers and radios.
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Sergiev Posad Lavra is a city; 45miles north east of Moscow, population of One Hundred twenty thousand, which is in the midst of Russian Steppes.
In 1430's St. Sergius of Radonezh (1313?-1391?) found the Holy Trinity Monastery (Posad in the name means Monastery) is now surrounded by an imposing walls which was built in 16th Century.
This Monastery, not only has been a center of Russian values and moral grounds during the time of occupation by the Mongols, but also a center of national movement of rebuilding themselves.
Now many pilgrims pay homage to this historic site.
I heard the Prayer in JUST INTONATION inside of this Cathedral and this experience gave a huge impact on my own thoughts and my creative process.
Natural harmonic overtones resonated so loud that I felt it was so neat.
The dome shaped just like the skull of a human body.
The resonance and Echoing inside the dome imitates what it happen inside our brain.
The real experience of my brain felt like it was physically numb.
Abandoned by notated music, that was the experience of just the pure sound and its force.
As tears running down, those pilgrims profoundly touched by being in the presence of St. Sergius, approach the Alter to venerate.
An open casket.
And the kiss.
Yes, there lies the incorrupt relics of St. Sergius, since 1391.
That is the reality.
The reality, which lies on the farthest point of prejudices, impressions and occultism, has the power.
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We need to bury the idea of the author is the Master and the editor is the Slave.
That should be the past idealism.
We have to share the same risks and liberty, as we are equal.
If the authors express their own ideas, so do the editors.
The editing is a very important activity and it should have more authorities.
The importance of author's point of view and the importance of editor's interpretation should be equilibriums.
There is no need for "proof reading by author".
The editors change and alter the manuscripts and drafts with their own independent intentions.
The editor is the Chef, who would ask the farmers who supplied the produce "I would like to cook this." is a total non-sense.
Use the tasty potion of the produce and get rid of the rotten part.
That might achieve an interesting media, maybe not even by the author him/herself would have thought of.
In addition "the chef" bears the achievement AND the responsibility.
Since we are in the days of owning our own internet sites, I strongly believe this.
If you hesitate and keep the reservation on the account of the authors and sponsors, direct media such as internet can drive out the existing Medias eventually.
"Oh I know, but." But what?
You will not survive until you are old enough receive your pension.
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The words of a spectator always cast the spell of corruption on the player, even in praise.
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I realized the after the years of wandering all over the place.
The only purpose of staying in one place is the political conveniences of the authority, and the indifference of the one who surrender to those ideas.
We should take back the right to wander as we please, to the place where gives you more comfortable environment, just like the wild beasts.
The internet and mobile computers are getting it possible.
The call of the wild of this day comes from our technology.
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If you campaign for "world peace", would that makes you a good person?
If I criticize what he does, does that make me a bad person?
There are so many around myself preaching about world peace.
Then, with my honest intension, I would say, "Before you achieve world peace, you should make your wife happy."
Probably they are annoyed.
Before the world peace, in reality, what about achieving the Asian region peace?
Alternatively, how about exterminating all the domestic crimes?
What about patrolling your own Prefectures and County?
What about promote safety in your own neighborhood?
And first of all, what about your family and friends?
For a starter, I strongly believe that you should achieve your own peace around yourself.
You would never feel responsible about anything unrealistic.
The "world anything" could be used for an excuse to escape from the daily misery.
I have sympathy for starving children in Africa but at the same time, there are more than 30 thousand people committed suicide every year.
That number indicates that three times as much as the victims of fatal traffic accidents does.
Last five years, one hundred and fifty thousand committed suicide.
That is more than the number of victims of Hiroshima.
If you count the people, who tried (committing suicide) could reach 10 times as much.
Maybe one thinks about committing it at this moment.
I would think that supporting people around you is much more critical.
Mr.O, O and H. I strongly suggest you to achieve domestic peace between you and your wives, before you preaching me about world peace.
I could only have the reality of making my wife happy and keeping it.
Never mind the global level reality...
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Establishment, attachment and cohesion is just a nihilistic idleness and apathy towards potentials.
The preoccupation towards one's identity has no basis and it is just an excuse avoiding any apprehension of development and advancement.
Toddlers and infants confront their fears constantly as they rejoice.
They are the ones who practice of destruction.
Moreover, the sneaky spectators, they concede the fact that they are denied of advancement; convincing them, that it is happiness and stability.
They hide their sorrows and misery of what it lacks in their lives until the day they wilt and die.
Destruction.
Destroy your own stagnant daily lives completely, with your assumed identity and apocryphal principles.
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It is frightening to open your eyes half way when you afraid of the dark.
The ghosts dissolve into the night with your eyes wide open and gaze into the darkness.
Angst, apprehention, agitation and fear, confront your consternation with searchlight.
And embrace it.
Defy it and the fire of your life ignites in ablaze.
When it comes to life changing decisions, how difficult it may be, challenge it with all the powers you have, and savor the moment of burning fire within.
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The notion of intellectual possession is now crumbling into the future.
The copyrights exist as a dam, only for the intervention of the distribution of information as commodities.
It does not exist to insure the enjoyment of arts, motivation to create nor the preservation of arts.
The liberty to enjoy all the music ever existed as you please could never be detrimental to any of us.
How can it be so unethical?
As we all gazed into the star-filled night, all the notes and music shine and illuminates us from the cyberspace.
Once Napster punches a hole into the dam, which some million students benefited from the drip of new values coming from this tiny puncture, now, irreversible torrents of water:
As the Gutenberg's printing press permitted reading of the Bible by ordinary people rather than the intelligentsias and the ruling class, as once they own the privilege.
The network emancipates music from music industry, which brings us a progress as the printing press did in the past.
When the five giants who own the 85 percent of music distribution cease this resistance to the current flow, the dam breaks and the earth will once again moistened and saturated.
"iTMS(I Tunes Music Store)" sold 25 million tracks so far. (Dec. 2003, after eight months since April of 2003.)
Pepsi is running a promotion "1in 3 wins a free song".
http://www.apple.com/itunes/pepsi/ from Feb. 1,2004.
The main point is the total numbers of tracks to be awarded.
100 million tracks!
It's a 4times the numbers of sales since the iTMS so far.
"We are still going to download music for free off the Internet."
Annie Leith, one of the some 20 teenagers. RIAA accuses them of unauthorized downloading of music from the internet.
Of course, this time it is legal.
Courtesy of Pepsi.
The rejoicing future is approaching!
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It is dangerous and stupid to believe the anonymity of internet as much as to believe everything in the news broadcasting is the truth.
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If people around you do not understand your language, you still be able to convey what you mean. However, you still need to voice your words.
The evening in rural village of Belarus after the performance.
There is no running water or gas service, so as no hotels and inns.
Therefore, I stayed at the mayor's residence, away from my translator because it was to small to be able to stay together.
They do not understand even a bit of English.
But with our gestures, pens and note pads, we understood each other's cultures, and the conditions of economy such as income, housing conditions, average rent, the price of cars and the cost of its upkeep, the cost for groceries and restaurants, education, and most of all, we understood each other's characters.
My point is that during those communications, I kept talking in Japanese that he does not know, and the mayor kept talking in his language.
We were so talkative that our throats dried up.
If we were quiet, without an effort to convey our words, we could have been just shyly smiling to each other and had an unsettling evening.
It's not the words but the efforts to convey made it possible for us to understand each other deeply.
Mothers talk to their babies.
People talk to their pets.
The words are not so important but the heart.
The one who shut themselves up because language they use is different from the other; is the one to blame if the others could not understand.
The next morning just before we said our farewells, the mayor presented me the antler of the stag he hunted and told me.
"For our eternal friendship" in Belarus.
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Every tools, contraptions and devices created as an extension of our hands and feet, which means that it should perform better than the same should function of human themselves.
Automobiles perform better than that of human legs, manufacturing robots for human hands.
Moreover, the computers, as an extension of our brains.
The dawn of the automobile, people laughed at them because it was faster to walk.
In fact, they were so slow that no one could have thought how important the automobiles become in our life, so near in the future.
Simply it was not expected.
Now, we are in the dawn of the computer age.
Computer core dwell only in the center of the network, we will have a implant to connect our brains to the display and some input device in the place of a keyboard.
Everyone share the all the data on the network, accessing with the same microelectronic currents with the same speed of the synapses which moves within our brains.
It is impossible to comprehend the world of this new "compound animals" of a global size; that the meaning of file sharing becomes synonym with sharing of brain cells.
Only we know for sure that it will not be the same, 100 years from now.
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Dadaism wanted to suppress art without realizing it; surrealism wanted to realize art without suppressing it.
The critical position later elaborated by the Situationists has shown that the suppression and the realization of art are inseparable aspects of a single supersession of art.
The Society of the Spectacle #191
(Excerpts 191 Guy-Erunest Debord)
It's been awhile since Guy-Ernest Debord defined "inseparable aspects of a single supersession of art".
I feel that the Situationinsts defined the inseparable aspects so to speak however, in practice; their theory was too weak to struggle against their own definition of "spectacle".
Now it became a part of the history of ideology and philosophy, which only exists on the value of rarity, has no actual function in the moment as a practical ideas.
Since the internet appeared, "the spectacle" has been changing dramatically different from what Debord thought.
This metamorphosis is irreversible and it will accelerate, though it would never idle.
Who would be able to criticize the "Society of spectacle" owned by human race in the form of "network clusters" ?
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The mentality of the conceptual contemporary artists generates all the fumes of rotten braggart, far worse than their creations themselves.
In the past, the patron's economical ability designates and determines the value of the works, as if how gorgeous the frame be, the more valuable the art.
Then, the spectacles after that, "popularity in the media" always be the center of the gravity.
They asked for sympathy rather than appreciation.
It becomes to have such useless standard of qualification: the proof of an advanced expression proved and determined if it were unintelligible.
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Avant-garde art seek its drive through OTHERS' opposition, rejection, and disapproval, in truth, it is really a SELF-preservation mechanism.
It has roots in military terms; it means that attack in front line, without regard for self, however it always include the word "garde-guard" symbolically.
Many of avant-garde artists guarded and defended their ways of expressions, as if the frontline platoon tried so hard to protect and preserve the battalion, with conviction.
Their shells were so hard that it was rotten to the core; it never hatched.
That was the conclusion of the population who avoided their own destruction.
They relied upon disapproval and rejection of others, with it; they perceived their superiority, which I feel that it is vulgar. It was trapped as weak parasitic social behavior.
There is not a fragment of preservation "garde".
Pure and absolute attack."Attaque" Hence the Avant-Attaque.
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Destroy and ascend vertically.
