![]() ![]() “If politicians go through a tea house door (lowered, so people must bend very low to get through) before they discuss anything and spend a day watching the fountain water dance at the nearest park, the world business may slow down a little but we may have peace. Much of Yoko’s work was about making oneself humble. The literal meaning of tainai-kuguiri is ‘to pass through the womb’. No matter who you are or your background, we are all just people having tea. This was also meant to equalize the status of all attendees from low and high society. In this way, a new world opens up when inside. Everyone is forced to bend, stoop and bow down to get inside. In Japanese tea houses, the ordinary world is transcended by passing through small kuguri entrance. Wish Tree comes from root experience as a child in Japan.” – YokoĪlso see: Wish Tree – All My Works are a Form of Wishing By Madeline Bocaro © “Many of my works are related to something in my roots. Wish Tree has grown into a limitless worldwide forest of wishes, which are collected and placed inside another of Yoko’s works – the Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik Iceland. The multitude of white papers on the branches resemble blooming white flowers. Wish Tree, Yoko’s popular and most endearing work derives from an ancient custom at Japanese shrines where people tied pre-printed tags with messages onto trees. Promise Piece (breaking a vase and having participants promise to meet in ten years and reassemble it) is based on ‘Ichi-go ichi-e’ – the premise that it’s a miracle that we meet and that each meeting could be our last.Īlso see: Mend Piece / Promise Piece By Madeline Bocaro © She also created Kintsugi tableware – Mended Cups – for the illy Art Collection in 2015. Yoko’s art work Mend Piece is rooted in the Japanese practice of Kintsugi ( 金継ぎ, きんつぎ, “golden joinery”) the wabi-sabi aspect of mending broken china with powdered gold, enhancing its beauty. Her conceptual artworks ask us to imagine or complete a thought – releasing us from physical and mental limitations, expanding to the universe and extrasensory perception. – From My Window exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 2015 “ The blood flowing in my body is made in Japan, but my head is totally a head of the world. It is a joy I cannot share with anybody around me…” ![]() “ In my life overseas, I still encounter many aspects in myself that show me how Japanese I am. However, in her heart, she was not only from one place, but of the entire world. No matter how modern her thoughts and her work became, she was rooted in Japanese culture. Having spent so much of her life in America, Yoko felt like a hybrid of east and west. It’s like the presence of a person behind or around you, I was thinking in terms of kehai vibrations… “I’m not conscious of myself as only Japanese.īut occasionally I try to communicate on a level with telepathy. Her writings are inspired by nature, Buddhist thought, Haiku poetry and Zen koans. Japanese thought and culture infuse much of Yoko’s work. This is why she can “Imagine one thousand suns rising at the same time…” She was born and raised in the land of the rising sun. No part of this site may be reproduced or reblogged in whole or in part in any manner without the permission of the copyright owner.
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![]() I'd go as far to say that I'd like to have seen more of Battlefield in Star Wars Battlefront. ![]() As a Battlefield fan, this couldn't be further from the truth. One immediate criticism I've repeatedly encountered of Battlefront is to call it a Battlefield re-skin. Given the fact that DICE, famed for the large-scale military FPS Battlefield series was tapped to develop Battlefront, the comparisons began even before the game got shipped. How does Battlefront stack up in the gameplay department? Star Wars: Battlefield? Star Wars Battlefront gameplay and content Still, Star Wars Battlefront is a video game, and authentic soundscaping and artwork can only take it so far. EA has a 10-year licensing deal with the now-Disney-owned Star Wars franchise, and at the very least, we know the atmosphere is firmly on task. When it comes to representing existing properties, authenticity is critical, and EA and DICE nail the Star Wars basics with confidence. As a Star Wars fan, there's something gratifying about steering a TIE fighter through a narrow canyon as it screeches through the blazing remnants of an exploded A-Wing. To compliment Star Wars Battlefront's masterful recreation of the movie franchise's iconic visuals, every laser blast, AT-ST lunge and lightsaber swing transports you straight back into the movies. The game even allows you to unlock characters and models to create virtual dioramas, which gives you a better look at the digitized Star Wars designs than the game's fast-paced game modes will afford. From the painted plastic of the 80's Stormtrooper helmet to the prop circuitry in an X-Wing's cockpit, DICE has created an incredible array of high-quality assets that'll likely see use in other Frostbite engine Star Wars games EA has planned. DICE is keen to show off the lengths they went to when detailing the game's various models, placing random objects into the menu screen for you to examine more closely. Regardless of the technical balancing act, Battlefront captures that nostalgic, unique Star Wars feeling with impeccable authenticity. When you combine this with Battlefront's minimal anti-aliasing, the game's impressive art direction and detail can suffer from jagged edges and blurry models - perhaps revealing how far the current-generation consoles are already behind the latest PC hardware. ![]() Usually, resolution doesn't present itself as much of an issue, but given Battlefront's impressive level of detail you end up with characters, props, and environments reduced to pixelated squiggles more rapidly than they might in a smaller-scale shooter. On Xbox One, Battlefront runs at 720p, sacrificing resolution to maintain a stable 60 FPS framerate. DICE's homage to Star Wars is a treat for fans and newcomers alike. The Frostbite engine has really come into its own between Battlefield 4, Dragon Age Inquisition and now Battlefront. Capturing Star Wars Star Wars Battlefront setting, visuals and audioĭespite the well-documented resolution disparity between the Xbox One and PS4 versions, Battlefront is incredibly beautiful, detailed and majestic, boasting impressive draw distances and environmental density. Still, there's a persistent, nagging feeling that Battlefront could've been so much more, and I expect DICE and EA know it. Battlefront has a responsibility to the Star Wars audience beyond that of a typical FPS game, and in that respect DICE has performed extremely well with the game's design and execution. Criticisms of Battlefront tend to miss the point when it comes to gameplay. |
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