AI art. Is it a threat to all art forms? Or is it merely a new tool in the wheelhouse of self expression? All above generated with AI image models (other than the quote, obviously😉)
This poll result is mind blowing; Everyone remotely with an inkling to anime, cyberpunk, transhumanism, etc. should see the original 95 anime version, and stand alone complex. Highly recommended!
The entire 3-minute city ambiance scene from Ghost in the Shell (1995) is already one of the best moments in all of cinema imo, but I NEED to talk about my absolute favorite part from it:
That brief moment when Major Kusanagi and a stranger with her exact same body model catch a glance at one another. How quickly the initial curiosity of seeing the doppelgänger turns into a feeling of unease as the boat carries her away.
She will never meet this stranger. She'll never know anything about her other than the simple reminder that every piece of her cybernetic body is not unique to her. There is no part of her other than her brain and all its memories that she has any true ownership of, and even that isn't immune to being hacked and potentially erased by outside forces. Despite being a part of a bustling city, all she can do is reflect on how utterly isolated she feels as a living being.
How can she possibly define her humanity when she herself is confined in the form of what is essentially a highly modified weapon? How can she relate to others when she has more in common with the mannequins on display in a shopping mall than with the any of the people walking the streets?
All of this inner turmoil at one’s own existence conveyed without a SINGLE word of dialogue spoken. Now that's the power of cinema if I've ever seen it!
It was inspired by different organic forms, especially flowers.
Wasp and orchid...
"The orchid deterritorializes, forming an image, tracing of the wasp; but the wasp is reterritorialized on this image. However, the wasp deterritorializes itself, becoming a part of the orchid reproductive apparatus itself; but it re-territorializes the orchid by transporting its pollen. Wasp and orchid form a rhizome, being heterogeneous."
- A Thousand Plateaus.