 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
–William Shakespeare |
 Art Glass 26 |
Category: Art
Aug 10 2011
Muse in the Morning
Aug 09 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
–Raymond Hull |
 Art Glass 25 |
Aug 04 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of the seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else’s dream.
–Fernando Pessoa |
 Art Glass 20 |
Aug 03 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I’m an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
–Libba Bray |
 Art Glass 19 |
Aug 02 2011
Tokyo Youth Healthy Development Ordinance Designed With An Eye Toward Political Censorship
Cross-posted to CandyBullets.
– In any manga, anime, or pictures (most likely including games).
– That feature sexual acts or sexual like acts that would be illegal in real life OR any sexual acts or sexual like acts or implication of a sexual relationship between close relatives OR those who can not marry if they were real AND
– Where the depiction / representation of the relationship is presented in an unjustifiably glorified or overly emphasized manner.
=> Is considered harmful to a minor’s mental health regarding sexuality, and therefore the Tokyo Metropolitan Government shall have the power to unilaterally restrict the material. where the sexual or sexual like act is considered to be excessively disrupting of social order.
That is the criteria for censorship for the scary new Tokyo Youth Healthy Development Ordinance. This is a list of what marriages are currently illegal in Japan today;
1) Marrying to one’s self or anyone of the same sex.
2) Marrying an immediate blood relative. (Children and parent, grandchild and grandmother, etc.)
3) Marriage between a relative by affinity within the third degree. (Siblings, uncle and nephew, etc.)
4) Marriage between two relatives formed by marriage in a parental relationship. (A husband and his wife’s mother or his mother-in-law.) This holds true even after divorce or if the spouse has died.
5) Marriage between an adopted child or adopted child’s spouse with his or her adopting parents, their immediate siblings, their blood relatives, etc. (An adopted son’s divorced wife and the father of one of the adopting parents, etc.) This holds true even after divorce or if the adoption is nullified.
As you can see problems begin to arise quickly. To start with the most glaring problem, the bill gives power to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to censor material that “glorifies” same-sex relationships, this should be an immediate warning bell. The bills stated purpose (“… promoting the healthy development of people under the age of 18 by restricting their access to material that is carefully considered harmful by the Government.) was a warning bell (i.e. terrifying) from the start. The bill slipped in under the radar however do in large part to its author and champion, the Tokyo Metropolitan Governor, an ex-tv personality famous for his snake oil charm, Shintaro Ishihara assured worries with claims he intended to merely go after so-called rorikon (lolicon) and shotacon titles, given that the bill didn’t even aim to censor them entirely per se but merely keep them from minors the bill appeared benign. It wasn’t. The first problems that began to appear were with the claims of “Restriction of Access”, this was a convenient story cooked up by Ishihara’s teem that did a lot to stave off criticism, the idea was that titles “censored” by the government would reappear under an “Adults Only” label, but this was immediately proven to be a sort of impossible catch-22; in the very first batch of manga the government announced it was censoring, Masahiro Itosugi, the mangaka of Aki-Sora (one of the titles being censored), announced the manga was going out of print because it didn’t qualify for the adult label… and it wasn’t allowed to be published without the adult label. Check mate. Furthermore, in Japan, if a manga series is relegated to the adult section, it will destroy the sales. This means publishers will no longer try to confront controversial or hot button issues, because even if they are one of the lucky ones and they aren’t removed from the market entirely they’ll end up deep in the red by being regulated to to the adult section under the absurdly vague parameters of this law.
Aug 02 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
–George Orwell |
 Art Glass 18 |
Jul 29 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.
–Sharon Maas |
 Art Glass 14 |
Jul 28 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.
–Andy Warhol |
 Art Glass 13 |
Jul 27 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more suprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing… They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.
–Gail Godwin |
 Art Glass 12 |
Jul 26 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.
–Dorothy L. Sayers |
 Sunset 2 |
Jul 25 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
–Red Haircrow |
 Art Glass 11 |
Jul 22 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
–Janeane Garofalo |
 Art Glass 9 |