StoryDive: “I’ve been a fan of Japanese Films, Anime, Video Games, Novels and Manga for a while, and I’ve noticed they all contain uniquely Japanese characteristics. In this video, I will breakdown one of these characteristics, that I call “Savoring the Moment”.
It has some similarities to the Japanese concept of Mono no Aware, or the appreciation of fleeting beauty.

I will examine this aspect of Japanese storytelling though Japan’s Literature, Cinema, Anime, and Video Games, as it appears in all. Sorry, I’ll have to save Manga for next time!”

Planet of the Humans is a 2019 American environmental documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jeff Gibbs. The film was executive produced by Michael Moore.

Moore released it on YouTube for free viewing on April 21, 2020, the eve of the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. It was removed from YouTube on 25 May 2020 in response to a claim of copyright infringement, which PEN America condemned as censorship. The filmmakers challenged the claim, arguing that the fragment was used under fair use and that free speech was subverted.
Twelve days later, YouTube allowed the film to be viewed again. In November 2020, Moore removed it from YouTube where it was available for free and made it available on Amazon, Apple and Google’s rental channels.

I can’t watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

B.H.

And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image.

Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.

J.B.

Ludwig Favre, Paris, France.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

J.B.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

N.K.