Günther Möbius, Talent Didn't Bring Me Here

Compiled, rephrased and written by Brainless Pressrelease Autodidacts

Although Hollywood studios and motion picture visual effects companies now mostly work with green screen, CGI and motion capture, physical models are still very often being built, for example to blow them up in front of the camera (since a real explosion still looks more realistic than animated) or to shoot with motion control photography: Today’s computer technology allows the programmed camera movement to be processed, such as having the move scaled up or down for different sized elements. As the time and cost to achieve photo-realistic shots often far exceeds the cost of shooting the live action itself, motion control is often applied in shooting with miniatures, either to composite several miniatures or to composite miniatures with full-scale elements.

It has been handed down that in the Middle Ages, but also in the 60s and even in 2014, whales swam into the Rhine and were washed up in Duisburg and Cologne.

Miniature worlds are dominated worlds. The cleverer someone is at miniaturizing the world, the better someone is to possess and control it. The miniature’s fixed form is manipulated by individual fantasy rather than by physical circumstances. It offers a world clearly limited in space but frozen and thereby both particularized and generalized in time – particularized in that the miniature concentrates upon the single instance and not upon the abstract rule, but generalized in that that instance comes to transcend, to stand for, a spectrum of other instances.

A globster or blob is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water. A globster is distinguished from a normal beached carcass by being hard to identify, at least by initial untrained observers, and by creating controversy as to its identity.

Sight: egg yolk-yellow spinal matter dripping from vertebrae the size of tree trunks.

The Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), established in 1997, is Japan’s largest conservative revisionist organization and has approximately 38,000 members. The Association wants to reinstantiate a Japanese Empire, is prone to Shinto fundamentalism, hostile to gender-free education and the sexual minority civil rights movement, supports revising the Japanese Constitution, especially Article 9 which forbids a standing army and wants to rewrite elementary school history textbooks that would nurture a national or right-wing consciousness. Besides Abe himself, many of his cabinet and the LDP are prominent members in the Nippon Kaigi.

The name Gojira (Godzilla) consists of the words Gorira (gorilla) and Kujira (whale). The Japanese Godzilla film can be interpreted as a processing of the Second World War lost by Japan, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the numerous nuclear tests carried out by the Americans in the Pacific during the Cold War. Since the manifestations of Godzilla in the genre’s more than thirty films vary greatly, it is difficult to say exactly what constitutes the monster. Almost always, however, it is a hybrid of whale, gorilla and lizard coming out of the deep sea and uses atomic energy as a weapon or in some films even draws all its power from nuclear energy. Seven years of American censorship during the occupation had eliminated the nuclear complex from the Japanese public. Godzilla was the first Japanese feature film and also one of the first films internationally to deal with the bomb.

The inclusion of human figures as a comparison for scale offers yet another bridge between fictional and real realms, reinforcing the incommensurability and immensity of other big things.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings is a Japanese electric utility holding company which owns the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant where the Fukushima nuclear accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. As a result of the meltdowns, large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster, which increased the risk that a lot of fish near Fukushima is poisoned. Parallels can be drawn to the public outrage happened right after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when contaminated fish were being traded throughout the country. Despite the fact, that in 2008 TEPCO made two studies in which the effect of tsunami waves was studied on the performance of the reactors, the company failed to take advantage of this knowledge and nothing was done to prevent such an event to happen. More than one million cubic meters of contaminated water is stored in the plant area and being treated by a purification system that can remove radionuclides to a level that Japanese regulations allow to be discharged to the pacific ocean. Moreover, as under American occupation, the Japanese government's hush-hush information policy on the nuclear complex is proving effective today.

Smell: an oppressive miasma of the sourest stench imaginable combined with rancid grease.

While the miniature object often speaks to the past, it encapsulates the time of production. Miniature objects are most often exaggerations of the attention to detail, precision, and balance that is characteristic of craft and artisanal culture – a culture which is considered to have been lost at the dawn of industrial production.

Günther Möbius, Talent Didn't Bring Me Here

Compiled, rephrased and written by Brainless Pressrelease Autodidacts

Although Hollywood studios and motion picture visual effects companies now mostly work with green screen, CGI and motion capture, physical models are still very often being built, for example to blow them up in front of the camera (since a real explosion still looks more realistic than animated) or to shoot with motion control photography: Today’s computer technology allows the programmed camera movement to be processed, such as having the move scaled up or down for different sized elements. As the time and cost to achieve photo-realistic shots often far exceeds the cost of shooting the live action itself, motion control is often applied in shooting with miniatures, either to composite several miniatures or to composite miniatures with full-scale elements.

It has been handed down that in the Middle Ages, but also in the 60s and even in 2014, whales swam into the Rhine and were washed up in Duisburg and Cologne.

Miniature worlds are dominated worlds. The cleverer someone is at miniaturizing the world, the better someone is to possess and control it. The miniature’s fixed form is manipulated by individual fantasy rather than by physical circumstances. It offers a world clearly limited in space but frozen and thereby both particularized and generalized in time – particularized in that the miniature concentrates upon the single instance and not upon the abstract rule, but generalized in that that instance comes to transcend, to stand for, a spectrum of other instances.

A globster or blob is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water. A globster is distinguished from a normal beached carcass by being hard to identify, at least by initial untrained observers, and by creating controversy as to its identity.

Sight: egg yolk-yellow spinal matter dripping from vertebrae the size of tree trunks.

The Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), established in 1997, is Japan’s largest conservative revisionist organization and has approximately 38,000 members. The Association wants to reinstantiate a Japanese Empire, is prone to Shinto fundamentalism, hostile to gender-free education and the sexual minority civil rights movement, supports revising the Japanese Constitution, especially Article 9 which forbids a standing army and wants to rewrite elementary school history textbooks that would nurture a national or right-wing consciousness. Besides Abe himself, many of his cabinet and the LDP are prominent members in the Nippon Kaigi.

The name Gojira (Godzilla) consists of the words Gorira (gorilla) and Kujira (whale). The Japanese Godzilla film can be interpreted as a processing of the Second World War lost by Japan, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the numerous nuclear tests carried out by the Americans in the Pacific during the Cold War. Since the manifestations of Godzilla in the genre’s more than thirty films vary greatly, it is difficult to say exactly what constitutes the monster. Almost always, however, it is a hybrid of whale, gorilla and lizard coming out of the deep sea and uses atomic energy as a weapon or in some films even draws all its power from nuclear energy. Seven years of American censorship during the occupation had eliminated the nuclear complex from the Japanese public. Godzilla was the first Japanese feature film and also one of the first films internationally to deal with the bomb.

The inclusion of human figures as a comparison for scale offers yet another bridge between fictional and real realms, reinforcing the incommensurability and immensity of other big things.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings is a Japanese electric utility holding company which owns the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant where the Fukushima nuclear accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. As a result of the meltdowns, large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster, which increased the risk that a lot of fish near Fukushima is poisoned. Parallels can be drawn to the public outrage happened right after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when contaminated fish were being traded throughout the country. Despite the fact, that in 2008 TEPCO made two studies in which the effect of tsunami waves was studied on the performance of the reactors, the company failed to take advantage of this knowledge and nothing was done to prevent such an event to happen. More than one million cubic meters of contaminated water is stored in the plant area and being treated by a purification system that can remove radionuclides to a level that Japanese regulations allow to be discharged to the pacific ocean. Moreover, as under American occupation, the Japanese government's hush-hush information policy on the nuclear complex is proving effective today.

Smell: an oppressive miasma of the sourest stench imaginable combined with rancid grease.

While the miniature object often speaks to the past, it encapsulates the time of production. Miniature objects are most often exaggerations of the attention to detail, precision, and balance that is characteristic of craft and artisanal culture – a culture which is considered to have been lost at the dawn of industrial production.