...JUXTAPOZ exhibition in the Vancouver Art Museum, Chiho Aoshima is an artist associated with the art movement known as Superflat. Her most recent piece titled Little Ms. Gravestone’s Absent Musings is a digital multimedia animation displayed as a triptych. Yet, despite the fact that the characteristics of the Superflat movement are evident in all her works, Little Ms. Gravestone’s Absent Musings in particular is able to capture the essence of Superflat due to its content and nature as a multimedia piece. Before asking what makes the piece Superflat, one must define the meaning of the term “Superflat”. Superflat can refer to several things: an aesthetic, the name of an art movement, as well as a moniker used for artists associated Takashi Murakami and their artistic style. Despite its etymology however, the movement is far from...
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...stated, I do not claim ownership of any of the images used on the blog. If you own rights to any of the images posted and do not wish to see them published on health-heaven, please contact us and we will remove them. Following PHOTOSET (Source: food-gifs, via letsbthin) ▲ food ▲ 07.25.12 ▲ 2599 NOTES ▲ Reblog PHOTO ▲ smoothie recipe ▲ 07.25.12 ▲ 133 NOTES ▲ Reblog ask “H K L !” -collinesjaune K: Favourite TV show. Pretty Little Liars, CSI, The Mentalist, Bones, Criminal Minds, Psych, Dexter, Monk, Sherlock Holmes, Castle, Revenge, The Big Bang Theory, Masterchef Australia & The Next Food Network Star H: Favourite book. I just answered that question, but hey I can have more than one favorite book :D 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami High Fidelity - Nick Hornby The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Beautiful and Damned - F Scott Fitzgerald A clockwork orange - Anthony Burgess The Virgin Suicides - Jefferey Eugenides Sherlock Holmes This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories by Edgar Allan Poe To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Sense of an Ending - Julian...
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...Haruki Murakami presents after the quake which is a fictional book that is broken up into six mesmerizing short stories. Each short story follows the same three rules Murakami set for himself stated in his interview with The Georgia Review. “The first was that the stories should be written in the third person”(557). “The second was that the stories should be about the earthquake in Kobe, but without describing the earthquake directly”(558) this made it for the stories to be not directly about the earthquake but still dealing with it. Lastly, “the third thing was that the stories shouldn’t happen in or around the earthquake”(558). Murakami’s characters all were not in kobe when there story was being told and the earthquake. In some of the stories the earthquake was...
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...“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami I had a lot of memories and for me every single memory is special and I wouldn't change it even if I had a chance. Some are filled with joy, some with sorrow, some taught me some lessons and some made me regret. But no matter how good or bad these memories are, they are my roots which moulded me into what I am today. Memories are the one thing that people cannot rob us of. They are like wisps. So many years, so many days, so many thoughts, so much time. It fits together like a puzzle and yet there are pieces are missing here and there like a person's childhood. Childhood is probably one of the most interesting pieces of their life even though it has more than its fair share of gaps and confusions. There are times, we always look back to our lives, to happy days when our young hearts were free from the stress and the anxieties of our more mature years. Memories leads us back to our childhood home, the happiest hours, when we were young and free from remorse and the clouds of sin. Memories is the diary of our souls, where all the pleasures, pains, stress and troubles of childhood, youth, maturity, and riper years is printed; where a chart on which our track is marked, pointing out all the dangers we have safely travelled through on our voyage to...
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...THE WIND UP BIRD CHRONICLE BY HARUKI MURAKAMI “The best way to think about reality was to get far away from it possible- a place like the bottom of a well for example.” If there was any line that could boil down the essence of the book, then this was it. “The wind up bird Chronicle” that is translated by Jay Rubin , a professor of Japanese literature in Harvard, is a strange and surreal book that dances in genres like magical realism, deals with elements of gore- the macabre and the grotesque and bubbles with questions of philosophy and embraces wholly the realm of well, sheer unbelievable events. It starts out simply enough. A cat with a bent tail that was named after the protagonist’s brother in law has disappeared from the house. A bird that visits their tree and sounds like the winding of a toy, for them the arrival of spring, creaks regularly. Our protagonist, Mr. Toru Okada- a normal man of a seemingly normal world is cooking and listening to opera. Unknown to him, the disappearance of the cat was going to shower down in this world of his with a chain of events and meetings that lead him to a path of self-discovery, of acceptance and rebellion of/ with urban alienation that all of us suffer from, maybe just a little. The cat was the tip of the ice berg. It was adopted into the home immediately after their marriage and it’s disappearance signified a deeper problem, a distance that had sprung up between Kumiko and Toru okada (wife and husband, the latter...
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...different ways. Murakami’s novel suggests that solipsism gives rise to the loss of identity, while Auster argues the opposite, suggesting that within the confines of enclosure, the individual discovers his/her identity. This article will entail a discussion of Murakami’s text, and the second installment will entail Auster’s memoir. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World thrives on the idea that individuality does exist, but attaining a sense of self in this novel is a difficult goal that most people never achieve. This is largely because objects and possessions replace the self and the characters become synonymous not with personality traits, but with physical objects. The narrator in this novel is a nameless, faceless person, and Murakami ensures that readers get minimal physical description of all the characters in the text. The narrator describes people by the objects they possess, and tries to define people through these objects. For example, the granddaughter is known as “the everything pink girl” because she wears only pink clothes (164). Her attire defines her identity. Similarly, the narrator does this again when being held hostage. Amidst the chaos and destruction of his apartment, there are several lines of text dedicated to little man’s Rolex. Additionally, he never gives a physical description of himself, but goes into detail about the things he buys and wears. He offers an extensive list of his possessions that range from his...
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...middle of a big storm when this happened and he would have had no time to think. “I told myself to run over to K, grab hold of him, and get out of there. It was the only thing to do. I knew that the wave was coming, and K didn’t know. As clearly as I knew what I ought to be doing, I found myself running the other way…” (Murakami pg 138). This text clearly shows that he mentally attempted to save K, but his fear overtook him and he ran away. “In these cases , people may be causally responsible for harm- they bring about the harm through their agency- but they are not morally responsible for what happened” (Sherman pg 155). This quote shows that even though the narrator could have stopped K. from being killed, he was not actually responsible for what happened....
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...slightest warning, Tony Takitani fell in love.” This follows (?) A.D. Hope’s concept that “The Mind has no neighbours, and the unteachable heart announces its armistice time after time, but spends its love to draw them closer and closer apart.” Hope implies that it is impossible to find someone who one can truly understand. But all humans are the slaves of their most inherent passions; not reason. This is why they will keep searching for an impossible neighbour. We desire deep human contact, whether we think it or not. The “wandering islands” in Hope’s poem represent people who find deep connections to others difficult. In this sense, Tony Takitani in Murakami’s work is a “wandering island”. Tony was often isolated during his childhood. Murakami uses unremarkable, ordinary language to describe Tony’s life, but to great effect: “Such experiences served only to close the boy off from the world. He never made any close friends, but this did not cause...
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...Chi Mai Professor Joseph McDade English 1303 8 October 2014 Assignment 1 “I was trapped in this cave and there is no way out to escape,” I grit my teeth. In order to become a hero and be able to protect everyone, two years ago, I decided to learn anything that would help me become someone people can rely on. To be honest, I planned to do this for a long time ago and finally I had a chance to do it. At that time, I did not have any tools to help me because I thought I was equipped with the necessary skills to survive any harsh environment. The reason for me to do this is “I want to become a hero so anyone can rely on me.” However, that is not important anymore because now, I am facing the reaper. He is holding a gun and can shoot me to death whenever he want. How can I escape from this? When I was a kid, I always wanted to become someone who was useful and reliable. Superman was an important character in my childhood. I had always considered him as an idol who I really wanted to become. That was the reason why I always tried to stay at the top in both academic and social fields. Christopher Reeve says, “What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.” Supermans may not be the best compared to Batman, Spiderman, Storm, etc…However, he was the first character I knew from a comic book I got from my uncle. It had been twelve years...
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...Maria Grant Sharpe CMLIT 004U Dr. Tachibana May 2, 2013 Japanese Society in Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami, one of the most critically acclaimed and widely read authors in Japan today, is labeled by many as a postmodernist. His short story “The Elephant Vanishes” and fictional novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” are prime examples of why this label has been placed on Murakami’s work. Both stories revolve around a central theme that since World War II the Japanese have lost a clear sense of self. Murakami reveals this central theme by overlaying a number of supporting themes, including the split between reality and imagination, and the overbearing effect of the past on the present. The central theme is furthered through vivid symbolism, the mundane activities of everyday life, and frequent references to western culture. Both stories beg the question: Do we have our own free will to act individually in this life, or are our actions predetermined by the mass of history that comes before us? Murakamiʼs Wind-Up Bird Chronicle probes contemporary Japanese life through the consciousness of a seemingly ordinary, slyly humorous, and increasingly likable narrator, Toru Okada, affectionately called “Mr. Wind-Up Bird.” His search for his wife Kumiko, who has left him, seems also a search for himself. Okada is 30, out of work, absent-minded and yet somehow hyper-vigilant at the same time. His character goes against all the...
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...I am currently reading the book, After the Quake, By Haruki Murakami. It is made up of about 6 stories. So far I have only read three. The 6 six stories revolve around the catastrophic earthquake that happen in Japan around 1995. Each story involves the concept of real characters, but connected to unreal happenings. The genre of the book can closely be named historical fiction, due to the historical background, but fictional occurrences. The first three stories give us main characters like: Komura an electronic salesman, who mysteriously loses someone, Junko a young girl lost in her feelings, and Yoshiya a boy who raised himself to believe he is the son of God. Every story had it’s own conflict. Even though I was unable to understand the...
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...I am a very idealistic person. I wake up every day in a world that consists of routines. From a young age I was told that having a good education can open new doors to me in the world. But to me, reading a book is magical because it allows you to escape to the world of the book and away from the real world. Waking up for almost 12 years of my life to listen to some long gone person's words read at me for 8 hours every day does not open my mind. Whether what's being said is useful or inspiring not does not matter, my view on the subject is irrelevant. I think this quote by Haruki Murakami sums it up, "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." Education is supposed to offer me new opportunities, but at the same time it closes my mind. In the joy of reading books I get to live in someone else's world through my own eyes. Year after year I get assigned books to read that get more difficult in vocabulary, length, and comprehension. Reading for a grade does not affect me the same way as getting lost in a great classic such as Jane Eyre. Connecting with, a person who doesn't exist in this world, someone who you slowly get to know with every turn of the page. When I read about a character, I feel their upset and the pain, their delight and relief, as if it was me and I was dealing with these situations. It’s as if I magically transform into someone different and live their lives with them as I read. When alone, books...
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...for a month at cergy-pontoise 2% of all fashion related ,short life cycle products had to disposed every year Senior manager view – Anticipate Demand Should have less hurry to stack stores up 5 back up warehouses across the world Distribution: 230 stores in 1998 / 340 stores in 2005 Each store size – 450-500 square feet 1600 sq feet store in paris champs elysees 6th most visited monument in france Every month the store manager draws an estimate of their replenishment of of requirement. Ship and Arifreight to avid long delivery overdue Marketing budget – 20% in 2005 Advertising -5 % Problems: Air traffic reduce after 9/11 Product availability / new product introductions Takashi Murakami – japanse design Customer behaviour : 8 /100 did not find what they were looking for 10 % dissatisfied bought something else immediately 20 % postponed their purchase 40%...
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...Questions 1. What factors (individual, work, and organizational) contributed to Fred and Jenny’s lack of adjustment to Japan? • Jenny was not happy what Fred did. • Fred’s ability was not able to do the job • confuse about the Japanese culture • Language barriers • Not familiar the transportation system • Do not have pre departure training 2. What mistakes did Fred make because of his lack of understanding of Japan? • Had to move at a very short notice • Never understanding well about the culture and the attitude of people of Japan • No Language skills • Mrs. Bailey was never enthusiastic • Fred might have wanted to spend time having his employees introducing themselves to create the atmosphere that he considered them all to be part of a team. • Fred’s meeting with prospective client, he went straight to the point the Japanese consider it important to spend time the beginning of a meeting to understanding with each other even of this means simply sitting quietly and react to the information which is natural for them) • After the presentation he did not allow for the Japanese to sit quietly and react to the information • He tried to rush them into a decision, such as they were there to gather information, and not willing to make a commitment after only one meeting • Tashiro was singled out and appreciated for his individual performance, (this is hard for Japanese employee to accept) he is more concerned for the recognition of the performance of his work...
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...What would you do if your best friend was riding inside of a wave sadistically staring at you while trying to drag you in with them? What would your reaction be? In Haruki Murakami’s The Seventh Man, a young boy and his friend witness the unimaginable while battling the after effects of a major typhoon both physically and mentally. The first thing that we learn about our main character is how he lives near open ocean, which is dangerous in times of raging storm. He has a friend whom he calls K, K is unlike any person that you will have ever met. Although at times he is considered mentally challenged, he is anything but. A speech impediment limits his abilities with social reactions, but for our main character he doesn't need to speak to him to know what he’s trying to say. K has an amazing talent for painting so the two friends go out all of the time to find scenes in nature to paint. The second thing that we learn about our main character is how protective of K he is, K is of the small, scrawny type while the main character is a bigger more buff type of person. Therefore with the main character there no one picks on K, but unfortunately without him it would be a different story entirely. K’s parents were also extremely protective of their son, whereas the main characters parents aren't so worried about their son because they know he can protect himself if the time comes when he needs to. And the next thing that we learn is that typhoons are very common whenever it is the...
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