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Rika Ninomiya

Keeping it real imaginative - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au - 0 views

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Anime StudioGhibli CulturalProduct Japan

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  • Pixar's creative head, John Lasseter, is one of Miyazaki's biggest fans.
  • In contrast to the way Lasseter has surged into the future with 3D computer-generated animation, Miyazaki has upheld the tradition of 2D hand-drawn animation. Now that Pixar is part of Disney, Lasseter has used his considerable clout to have the studio release an English-language version of Miyazaki's latest film, Ponyo,
  • The film uses the voices of stars including Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon and Tina Fey, with Noah Cyrus - the younger sister of Miley Cyrus - as Ponyo, a cute goldfish that yearns to be human.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 05 Oct 09
     
    Studio Ghibli is the most successful anime production house in Japan. It's persona has captured not only Japanese but also people around the world, regardless of their age. This is one cultural product of Japan which is appreciated by many around the world.
Christoph Zed

Looking for the African Akira - 0 views

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fiction animation culture identity story-telling

shared by Christoph Zed on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • What better measure of society is there than through the fiction it creates? In 1988 the Japanese animation feature film AKIRA was released to the world envisioning the near future of a 2019 neo-Tokyo.
  • THE MATRIX in the U.S. would do for action and sci-fi movies, what AKIRA did for animation. The directors of THE MATRIX, the Wachowski brothers, cited one of their main influences and inspirations as AKIRA and that films director Katsuhiro Otomo
  • Fiction represents the ideas of a society that’s thinking as much about it’s future as it is it’s past and present. It represents as much about the hopes of that collective society and it’s factions as it does the fears. The concept of who and what heroes and villains are, protagonists and antagonists, are critical concepts for framing identity
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  • Most people would have you believe that fiction is the result of leisure, and that’s absolutely true. Without an abundance of time (and the worry of fulfilling primary needs like thirst and hunger) there simply is no opportunity to spend the day ‘thinking’ (or the ultimate of leisure activities: ‘thinking about other people’s thinking’)
  • the production of movies, books, comics, animation, TV and other form of media is all indicative of cultures that can produce more than just laborers and politicians. Africa is beginning to see a great shift towards people who pursue conceptual and intellectual careers, these people with both consume and create the next generation of Africa’s stories
  • there needs to be a creative revolution in the types of stories that are being told in Africa; how stories are distributed needs a revolution as much as the mediums that they are told with does.
xuejiao lin

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation - 0 views

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Kseniya Simonova Sand Animation culture

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  • xuejiao lin on 05 Oct 09
     
    Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who creates sand drawings in front of audiences. Here she is performing on Ukraine's Got Talent: Here, she recounts Germany conquering Ukraine in the second world war. She brings calm, then conflict. A couple on a bench become a woman's face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier. Simonova looks like some vengeful Old Testament deity as she destroys then recreates her scenes - with deft strokes, sprinkles and sweeps she keeps the narrative going. She moves the judges to tears as she subtitles the final scene "you are always near". Kseniya Simonova's simple sand animation has captured a universal chord for the Ukraine where emotion runs deep entrenched in a war that has generational wounds. You don't have to understand the culture, the humbling of the people will touch you. The artist Kseniya Simonova won the competition and justly so. If you are able to bring out emotion like that and bring out tears in all, your message was well received and deserve to win.
shi chen

'Kung Fu Panda' Hits A Sore Spot in China - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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film chinese kongfu and panda made in hollywood

shared by shi chen on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • of an American animated movie that's set in ancient China
  • The blockbuster success
  • Some viewers have said the only reason China hasn't come out with something similar is a lack of money ("Kung Fu Panda" cost more than $130 million to make; Chinese-produced films tend to cost less than $1.5 million) or animation-technology know-how.
Yair Frid

YouTube - Food Fight - 0 views

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Food nationalism history war

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  • xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
     
    it is a quite funny animation. Also, in an interesting way, it uses symbolic languages to represent the modern world, pop culture and globalization. In my point of view, there is a global war in which sushi represents Asia and hanburg and chips play as West. they fight with each other in order to prove which one is more dominant and powerful.
  • Yair Frid on 25 Aug 09
     
    Its the recent history of war:Go here to see which country is represented by which food, its quite cool http://www.touristpictures.com/foodfight/cheat.htm
Nadeem Uddin

Aussie PM is a serial killer: US TV host - Yahoo!7 News - 0 views

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  • Nadeem Uddin on 05 Aug 09
     
    Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been labelled a serial killer on US TV.
  • anonymous on 06 Aug 09
     
    I can't believe that viewers would agree or even accept comments of a supposed news anchor who poses topless for mens magazines! Has she even looked into the reasoning behind the culling of feral animals that are harming natural Australian habitat or is she to busy thinking about cute stuffed toys and her image to bother?
Christoph Zed

Venezuela bans Family Guy cartoon - 2 views

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  • Authorities in Venezuela say they will punish TV stations if they continue to broadcast episodes of cult US animation Family Guy.
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 28 Sep 09
       
      what I think is that authorities are those who work for the government or politics. so the issue is based on the decision of the government rather than general publics. therefore, the interactive communication between different cultures are limited by the politics.
  • the show should be banned because it promotes the use of marijuana
    • Andrew Ooi
      Andrew Ooi on 04 Oct 09
       
      If anyone wants to ban anything cigarrettes should be first on the list. This demonization of cannabis has gone on for far too long. Cannabis/Hemp species have been used for thousands of years for medicine, fabric, paper, biodiesel (recently, but you can use almost anything to make it anyways). If anyone disagrees I challenge you to a duel.
    • Nora Ibrahim
      Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
       
      True that Andrew! :-)
  • messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents
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  • Televen avoided the fine by pulling the show and replacing it with Baywatch.
  • Venezuelan TV is known for filling its schedules with re-runs of old US series and Latin American soap operas
  • Christoph Zed on 28 Sep 09
     
    Interesting move, I guess the "localization" process overlooked a few issues. Personally I think "the family guy" does quite often cross lines that should not be crossed, (eg: when making fun of pedophilia) The show highlights a trend in western society to ridicule any value and/or anything "sacred".
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  • Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
     
    I am a HUGE fan on Family Guy since they started airing in States and recently have been watching the episodes from Season Seven (compliments of RMIT Library) back to back. I must say there are loads of 'jokes' used in the episodes which I found was bordering on 'so wrong'. The writers do make fun of every single thing and no one is spared, not even physically challenged people.
  • fina ramlee on 04 Oct 09
     
    I've watched it once and I didn't like it.Everything about it is so wrong but I guess it's now a trend to use cartoons as medium for silly jokes.
  • anonymous on 06 Oct 09
     
    Some people might capture the meaning wrongly. Perhaps Venezuelans view Family Guy as those who criticize the western value. Since Venezuelan TV is know to re-runs of old US series and Latin American soap operas, they tend to manage the conventional value instead of looking at the west in a modern society who gets ridicule by the writers.
Lucy Rechnitzer

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Senegal's youths dream of Europe - 0 views

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  • We sat on the ground and the message from all these fishermen was along the lines of: "They may be talking about an economic crisis in Europe but if you want a real crisis it's right here in Senegal."
  • A very animated and infuriated Abdoulaye told me that his son left for Spain in a fishing boat five years ago, and was now living a far better life than he was. "I am 45-years-old and I don't have half of what he has now, like a nice house and a car," he said, adding that he would do all he could to send more of his relatives to Europe. None of these young men referred at any stage to the risks of getting to Europe even though hundreds - probably thousands - have died at sea in recent years. Senegal looks to Europe more than most countries I have visited. Not so much to Spain, but to the old colonial power, France, which has maintained strong links.
  • If it were not for the West African street traders, the whole of Europe would be squinting and struggling to keep their trousers up, judging by the number of people I have met who said they made their living selling these goods on the streets.
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  • I used to be able to work in Italy for just one month and earn enough money to spend the rest of the year living it up in Senegal," Vieux told me. He said 10 years ago in Italy people would come knocking on the door offering work but not any more
  • But much of the development is through money sent home from abroad, and economic crisis or not, Europe will still be the target for many young Senegalese looking to swap the horse and cart life for a Renault in the fast lane.
Rika Ninomiya

China eyes Asian and Western media funds | The Australian - 1 views

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shared by Rika Ninomiya on 25 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • CHINA Investment Corporation, the $US200billion ($243bn) state-run sovereign wealth fund, is planning to invest in several Western and Asian media funds.
  • The investments could give the Chinese government a direct stake in a rich variety of media content -- from South Korean television dramas and Japanese game shows to Hollywood blockbusters and globally franchised animation series.
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