CHARACTER MONOLOGUE: JIRO NOZUKA (IED TOKYO)
(Translated from Japanese)
"Your happiness is important to you? Your peace and complacency? I don't care. It's over. Until you wake up, you will not have a moment of peace. Not a moment of quiet. Not one single week will go by when something bad does not happen to get people's attention, to alert the world to just how you're all fucking us up. We are a bad batch. You made us this way. And in order for things to change, we have to go. You will not do things the same way with our younger siblings. You will not make them whores of commerce and fads. You will not treat them like shit for not being perfect. Human beings are flawed. Honor means nothing. And even in a country with a low birth rate, there are still millions of us. This is round one. How long it goes on is up to you." ~ Jiro (IED Tokyo)
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1.14.2009
CHARACTER MONOLOGUE: HANA NOZUKA (IED TOKYO)
"It all starts out on the right track, so to speak. You do all the right things You have all the skill and imagination and passion to keep moving forward. You genuinely care, because even at an age when you really shouldn't have any idea what you want out of life, you find yourself in enough dreams and daydreams to know there's nothing else you'd rather be doing. The fantasy worlds you create seem more real, more reliable than anything in the real world that you always have to crash back to. The world that hurts. After a while you're pushed back into that world so often that you start to see the positive things, or rather, thing. Imagine it as a tether, holding you in place so you don't fall to your death. Or maybe a bungee cord, because no matter how far you go out into the adventure, you always get pulled back into safety. Then one day, for no apparant reason, the tether breaks. And it turns out that instead of being spirited away to the other world, you find yourself stuck in the real world. Not on the shore, but landlocked and cripple, with no forseeable way out. Maybe I should have started the water anaology sooner. No, but the tether breaks and you start seeing all these frayed threads and you observe them and trace them back, because it's not like you have anything else to do, and you realize that there were more tethers, all connected to the same line. And they all broke, too, right. But it's so tough now that you can't even figure out whether they broke on the fantasy side or the real world side. And you see them all unraveling. And you feel it happening to you. And you can't do anything, because you never learned...tether repair, or whatever. You never expected to need it. The tether wasn't supposed to just BREAK like that. *sigh* That's what it was like when my brother died." ~ Hana (IED Tokyo)
"It all starts out on the right track, so to speak. You do all the right things You have all the skill and imagination and passion to keep moving forward. You genuinely care, because even at an age when you really shouldn't have any idea what you want out of life, you find yourself in enough dreams and daydreams to know there's nothing else you'd rather be doing. The fantasy worlds you create seem more real, more reliable than anything in the real world that you always have to crash back to. The world that hurts. After a while you're pushed back into that world so often that you start to see the positive things, or rather, thing. Imagine it as a tether, holding you in place so you don't fall to your death. Or maybe a bungee cord, because no matter how far you go out into the adventure, you always get pulled back into safety. Then one day, for no apparant reason, the tether breaks. And it turns out that instead of being spirited away to the other world, you find yourself stuck in the real world. Not on the shore, but landlocked and cripple, with no forseeable way out. Maybe I should have started the water anaology sooner. No, but the tether breaks and you start seeing all these frayed threads and you observe them and trace them back, because it's not like you have anything else to do, and you realize that there were more tethers, all connected to the same line. And they all broke, too, right. But it's so tough now that you can't even figure out whether they broke on the fantasy side or the real world side. And you see them all unraveling. And you feel it happening to you. And you can't do anything, because you never learned...tether repair, or whatever. You never expected to need it. The tether wasn't supposed to just BREAK like that. *sigh* That's what it was like when my brother died." ~ Hana (IED Tokyo)
CHARACTER MONOLOGUE: OLIVER (IED TOKYO)
"People and things are not as simple as we make them out to be. We make assumptions all the time, try to group and limit and make people understand themselves as we understand them to be. But people and things are not as simple as we make them out to be. Especially when they're two things. I was born in a former British colony founded on the right to escape persecution and to persecute freely on new real estate. I am the product of the melting pot, over two generations of people from different places with so-called 'liberal' tastes in mates. I am many things, but for the sake of brevity, let's say I'm two. Both these things were allies during World War II, not that there's any importance in that statement. I live in Japan now. And even here, where the people look more like me than in other places, I'm still on the outside a lot of the time. It would probably hurt more if I wasn't used to it. But I'm looking for something here, besides a quiet place to write. I'm looking for who my grandmother was. I'm looking for the identity she lost when she was forced to become a comfort woman. I'm looking for that girl in the school uniform. No, not her, the one next to her. The one who's not smiling. I'm looking to understand, because no matter what I do or what I look like, 'I am not the same, I am a Martian...' and I think I just found someone else as lost as I am." ~ Oliver (IED Tokyo)
"People and things are not as simple as we make them out to be. We make assumptions all the time, try to group and limit and make people understand themselves as we understand them to be. But people and things are not as simple as we make them out to be. Especially when they're two things. I was born in a former British colony founded on the right to escape persecution and to persecute freely on new real estate. I am the product of the melting pot, over two generations of people from different places with so-called 'liberal' tastes in mates. I am many things, but for the sake of brevity, let's say I'm two. Both these things were allies during World War II, not that there's any importance in that statement. I live in Japan now. And even here, where the people look more like me than in other places, I'm still on the outside a lot of the time. It would probably hurt more if I wasn't used to it. But I'm looking for something here, besides a quiet place to write. I'm looking for who my grandmother was. I'm looking for the identity she lost when she was forced to become a comfort woman. I'm looking for that girl in the school uniform. No, not her, the one next to her. The one who's not smiling. I'm looking to understand, because no matter what I do or what I look like, 'I am not the same, I am a Martian...' and I think I just found someone else as lost as I am." ~ Oliver (IED Tokyo)
11.18.2008
NEW PHOTOSHOP PROJECT
This one was the first in the set that I felt wasn't completely horrible.
This ended up being the finished product, mostly because my computer went comatose after i saved this version.
This one was the first in the set that I felt wasn't completely horrible.
This ended up being the finished product, mostly because my computer went comatose after i saved this version.
And this one is the "finished product", but sdistorted to fit the size and shape of an PSP screen (272 x 480).
I'm still not there yet. The composition and execution are both off, but the fact that I know these things means that I'm one step closer to actually knowing what I'm doing.
I'm still not there yet. The composition and execution are both off, but the fact that I know these things means that I'm one step closer to actually knowing what I'm doing.
-DINOSAUR!
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