#Ballet Mechanique
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Kosloff as Electricity in Madam Satan
“Madam Satan” film photograph featuring Theodore Kosloff as “Electricity”, 1930. | src Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries C0468
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“Madam Satan” film photograph featuring Theodore Kosloff as “Electricity” and a group of dancers dressed as turbines or generators for the ballet sequence entitled Ballet Mechanique. | src George Mason University Libraries
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#madam satan#theodore kosloff#adrian#art deco#art deco costume#ballet mecanique#Ballet Mechanique#cecil b. de mille#cecil b. demille#costume design#1930s#dance costume#tanzkostum#dance figure#dance#Tanz#danse#danza#dansa#tansii
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"Corinne Griffith pictured in a scene from the Alexander Korda film, Lilies of the Field. She plays a show-girl who takes part in a modernistic ballet mechanique and, dressed in silver tights, represented the figure of Speed on a radiator cap of a gigantic automobile. The men were dressed to represent robots."
Lilies of the Field, Alexander Korda, 1929
#film#alexander korda#1920s#corinne griffith#lilies of the field#speed#art deco#robots#ballet mechanique#vintage#black and white#art
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Eureka Seven: Episode 48 - Ballet Mechanique
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oh ballet mechanique, we're really in it now
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2023/04/05 English
BGM: Deacon Blue - Dignity
Today was a day off. This morning a friend sent me an interesting message. It says that the memorial day of Yukiko Okada, a Japanese famous idol, is coming. Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Ballet Mechanique" was, at first, for that Yukiko Okada. The lyric says that "I have the beginning and the end", and "music, everlasting music". This means that our life certainly has the limit but music can sound forever. This is the meaning of that song... It suggests me a profound message. I can't know "true" Sakamoto's message, but for me, my life will end one day. Looking at that limit of my life, I can open myself for the possibility of producing something forever... this reminds me of Prefab Sprout's "Carnival 2000". "Lives come and go but life no denial".
This morning, the sky was still clouded. I went to Aeon, where I read "Koutarou Sawaki Sessions: Ecstasy and awakening". Suddenly, I thought about the topic in this book, "do you believe in reincarnation?". This might be the theme "Eternal Return" by Nietzsche. I can't accept this "reincarnation" as an actual one. If I believed that, then it would become an attitude of denying the current life. Not being satisfied with this life, but believing in another life as their lifestyle... that style would be the desire of playing another person's life, or living different life virtually. The former attitude would product many fiction, and the latter would product non-fiction. I want to live this life so can't choose which I would, and writing the current life as a journal. If I were born again as a different thing/person... Yosui Inoue sings that "If the life had the second one". But I guess it would be exhausted if I should live another life, or many lives again and again. It must be hard.
This afternoon, it started raining so I spent my time at a group home. Listening to Deacon Blue's "Raintown", I read Koutarou Sawaki's "246". This is a journal by Koutarou Sawaki, and it delivers the "steady and cool" life of him. In this book various famous people appear, but his daily life isn't decorated too much. Sawaki does his tasks step by step. Reading the books, watching movies and writing. He keeps on saving his styles, the way of writing and also living until this book's ending. I can feel comfortable with that saving. TBH I started reading his books nowadays, but I am thinking that I could follow his stoic life as my life. Of course, I am not a pro writer, and also have many difference from Sawaki. I shouldn't ignore them and adore blindlessly. I have to live my life.
This night, I went to the "danshu" meeting. I attended that via a video calling from my group home because of raining. A member who has quit alcohol for over 5 years was praised by others. Me, I have quit alcohol for about 8 years. 8 years ago, the 3rd of April, that day I decided not to stop... and it lead me to here now. A long way... but it still continue. After that, I read Koutarou Sawaki's "Their Style". In that book, a writing that tells about various radio programs attracts me. A kind of radio program that accepts listener and radio personality's serious conversation that we can still enjoy now. They confess their worries, and the personality listens to... Then I thought that Twitter or the blogs like mine will work as a place to "vent" various things. The worries and anger in their mind. I am also venting a lot of things therefore I can heal myself. And, through listening to that kind of program, some readers can be saved and embraced by this kind of writing. All I write is just silly things, but this entry could arrive to the room of any lonely people.
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Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
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From the Avant-garde Art Film ‘Ballet Mechanique’ 1923/24.
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Daniel Pitín (Czech, 1977) - Ballet Mechanique (2017)
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - “Ballet Mechanique”
Futurista [Midi Inc, 1986]
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For the music ask meme: 13, 18 and 23
13: One of your favorite 80’s songs
Ballet Mechanique by Ryuichi Sakamoto/Let's Groove by Earth, Wind and Fire.
18: A song from the year that you were born
A Crumb 2 A Brick by La Chat!
23:A song that you think everybody should listen to
Hmmm Protect and Serve by UGK
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#actual #ballet #mechanique
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This is what I got for you: kiss meets the phantom of the park, big eyes, bagdad cafe, rollercoaster, ballet mechanique, hot rod, ruthless people, m, clue, phantom of the paradise, fright night, my winnipeg, braindead, airplane, kustom kar kommandos, new years evil
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Since my friend @historyman101 recieved an ask after I published my review of Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 2: Anemone that touched on these matters, I wanted to make a few comments in addendum to the review. Here is a link to the original ask he received.
Not the snarky anon who's been harassing you previously, but I have to ask: don't you think you're taking everything about Eureka 7 Hi-Evolution a bit too seriously? The way you and illustrious rocket pick apart this film series I get the sense you think Kyoda and Bones should be very serious and meticulous about crafting a story. Why can't you just not think so hard and enjoy it? It should be about the story and not how the story is written or presented.
I feel historyman101 covered a lot of things I could say, so I will focus on the last two sentences of the ask.
I, personally, am not opposed to enjoying something that is ridiculous and awful. I mean look at me, I’m posting Sharknado, Terminator Genisys and The Room on this blog. I would have no room to preach here.
But let us take the premise as it is presented in the ask. historyman101 feels more strongly about writing quality than I do, although I agree with his general sentiments on it, and he has laid out his arguments on the topic very well by himself. I want to hone in instead on another point: “it should be about the story.” Yes, I agree with that.
The whole thing when it comes to the review I wrote and the comments I’ve made on Anemone is that the story in it is just not good, setting aside everything else that could factor into it. Fuuka Anemone isn’t a compelling lead, and Psychopath Eureka fails as an antagonist because you barely see or know anything about her until the big reveal unless you’re carrying knowledge of the original series going in. Because of those two shortcomings and the way the other characters amount to nothing more than plot devices to move the story along, the story itself fails to resonate. Kyoda ironically packed so much into this film that it feels hollow and empty. There needs to be something to a film for you to enjoy it and I just... found nothing in Anemone at all.
Like, the plot just doesn’t resonate. You’re thrown into an incoherent and underdeveloped setting where you’re given a laundry list of facts about the world and just have to accept them. Usually, if the world is badly done, my attention will at least be held by characters but this film falls short there too. The main character is equally bland, inoffensive but also uninteresting. The villain whose actions are driving the plot is barely present and a virtual nonentity until what’s supposed to be a “twist” at the end. The obvious Greater Scope Villain (Dewey) has even less presence but is ironically on screen enough to be more than just simple sequel bait.
So basically, when the story doesn’t land and the characters aren’t interesting enough to pick up the slack, there’s nothing there to enjoy. It may surprise you, but I don’t want to hate Hi-Evolution. If it gave me something I could enjoy I would be more than happy to. Like I said in the review, I loved the Ballet Mechanique sequence. If it was more like that, my opinion of it would be higher.
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2023/04/05
BGM: Deacon Blue - Dignity
今日は休み。朝、友だちが興味深いメッセージを教えてくれた。岡田有希子のメモリアル・デーが近づいているが、坂本龍一の「Ballet Mechanique」はもともとその岡田有希子のために作られた曲だったというのだ。歌詞は「ぼくには はじめと おわりが あるんだ」「おんがく いつまでもつづく おんがく」というもので、これは人間の人生は有限のものであるが音楽は永続的に鳴り続けるものだということが意味されているという。そう考えるとこの歌詞は深いメッセージを含んでいるとも受け取れる。坂本龍一のメッセージは今となっては知りようがないが、私に引きつけて考えれば私の人生もいずれ終わる。その生の有限性を見据えたところから無限のものを生み出せるかもしれない、という可能性に開かれる……プリファブ・スプラウトの「Carnival 2000」という曲を思い浮かべてしまった。彼らはこう歌っている。「Lives come and go but life no denial」。「人生は来て去っていく。だけど命そのものは否定できない」……。
朝、まだ空は曇っていた。イオンに行き、そこで沢木耕太郎『沢木耕太郎セッションズ 陶酔と覚醒』を読む。ふと、本の中で語られている「生まれ変わりを信じるか」という話題が気になった。難しく言えばニーチェが「永遠回帰」と呼んだテーマにも連なる。私は生まれ変わるということがピンと来ない。もし生まれ変わることを信じるとしたら、それは今の人生を否定することにもつながるのではないだろうかとも思う。今の人生に満足せず、他の人生があり得たはずだと信じて生きる、という生き方……そのような生き方こそが恐らくは他人の人生を演じたい、他人の人生をヴァーチャルに生きてみたいという気持ちにつながるのだろうと思う。フィクションを生み出すのは前者の態度だろうし、ノンフィクションは後者の態度から生まれるのだろう。私はさしあたって今は今の人生を生きたいからどっちつかずのまま、その「今の人生」を日記として綴っているのだろうなと思った。もし生まれ変わるとしたら……井上陽水が「人生が二度あれば」と歌っているが、もし現に何度も生まれ変わらないといけないとしたらそれは非常にハードな人生だろうなと思う。疲れるだろうな、と。
昼になり雨が降り始めたので、グループホームで過ごす。ディーコン・ブルー『Raintown』を聴きながら沢木耕太郎『246』を読む。これは沢木耕太郎が記した日記で、読んでいて実に地味な「いぶし銀」の人生を歩んでいるなと思う。数々の著名人が登場するがそんなに日常が華やかなものとしては描かれておらず、沢木は「凡事徹底」として平凡に本を読み、映画を観てそして書く作業を続けている。羽目を外して相好を崩すことなく自分の文体／スタイルを守り抜いている���そこから来る安定感によって心地よく読める。沢木耕太郎を読むようになったのは実を言うとつい最近のことなのだけれど、自分自身の生き方として沢木耕太郎が貫く生き方を指針にできないものかと考える。もちろん私はプロのライターではないしそれ以外にも沢木と自分の間には見過ごせない相違がいくつも存在する。そんな相違を無視して勝手に同一視するのは端的にはしたないことでもあるだろう。私は私の道を行かなければならない。
夜、断酒会に行く。雨が降っているのでリモート参加で出席する。参加者の方で5年断酒を続けられた方がおられたので表彰される。私自身もかれこれ8年断酒したことになるだろうか。8年前の4月3日、あの日私は断酒を決意して今に至る。長い道のりだった……これからも続くのだけれど。その後沢木耕太郎『彼らの流儀』を読み進める。その中で、リスナー参加型のラジオ番組について語られた文が目を惹く。今でもあると思うのだけれど、悩みを抱えたリスナーと番組のパーソナリティがガチンコで対話するという番組だ。思えばTwitterも私のやっているようなブログも、そうした言葉にならない悩みごとや心配ごとを抱えた人にとっては「吐き出す」場として機能する。ならば私はこのブログを通して癒やされていると思う。そして、過去にそうした番組を聞いて私自身が励まされたようにこうした文章を通して励ましを受け取る方も確実におらえるのだと思う。他愛のないことしか書けないけれど、それでもこのエントリも誰かのいる孤独な場所に届けばいいと思った。
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