Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Globalization in Japan -.-
The world have changed completely after the globalization. But what is globalization? Well, we can define this word many different ways, the the most correctelly is that the acessibility of the information of everywhere from everywhere; or also the exchange of cultural habites and information around the world.
In one hand the globalization was a great happening, because now everyone can have acess to everything in this world. But in the other hand, people are giving up from their on cultural habits, traditions, changing their behaviors and their lifes to become something that they weren't born to live.
Japan is a great example of it. Japan has one of the gretest cultures and with really strong traditions and people here are giving it up to try to become people that they aren't. One good example of it is their obsession for american habits and life style. Their lifes are the whole time tring to become one of them, since they way they dress, their houses, the way they eat, where they hang out and theway they act until they way they look; everyday the facial plastics for oriental people are becoming more and more commum, changing they way the look to became more ocidental.
With the globalization we should had just improve and add knowledge and not gave up or forget our own traditions and belives as the way it is happening. It is such a pitty that something that was created for a good purpuse has such demaged consequencies like the way the globalization in many countries had.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
.Photographer of Japan.
For West people, Japan is a really interesting place to photograph. First of all, because of the huge difference beteween their culture, belives, realigian, costums and way to live from ours.
Japan is a great nation which has a great history behind it like no other place and we still can find the effects and marks of this great history in here.
In my opnian the beuty here, isn't just the amazing architeture or the gorgeous landscapes or either the fantastic history; the beauty of japan is the diference between the other nations. The distiction, Japan is simply unique in all aspects.
As we can see from these phographers, is a fusion of the new and the old. They used the old pictures from differents places from Japan with some visual efects from nowdays. We also can see tradicional photos, from important people or we can realize that the photos are from another century by the aspects of the pictures, for example; clothes, architeture, poses, colors, atictivits etc..
Now in the other photos, from nowdays, we can watch the huge and amzing transformation and change. How and what the people became, and how is their lifes centuries later but still keeping the same costums and traditions; but we also can see how the east costums andthe fiction lifes influeced the new generations even though the strongh and straight traditions in here.
FONTS:
http://www.japanesestreets.com/photos/categories.php?cat_id=214
http://oldphotosjapan.com/en//?pg=4
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Japanese POP
Japan can be considereted a style country. It's not a normal country that people just live normal and the people's style don't stand out like japanese people do.
Japan is a nation with many diffrents styles and life styles. Every day a new style is created in Japan, and all the japanese styles always influence other cultures and countries style too. Japan is a kind of referent point in many aspects.
One of the most famous and followed style by the japanese is the POP, there are a huge young folk who follow this POP style. They consider the pop more as a way of life. Every aspect of their daily life is influenced by japanese pop. The way they dress, what they eat, what they do in their space time, where they "hang out" and also how they talk.
This huge POP wave came because the influence of the popular media. The Media in Japan is the biggest influence way to people, for what they show the people and how they enfasase it too.
Every step you do in here you face with a sinal of a pop influence in here. Everything has a little detail of pop in it. It is so amazing to see how a young style can became a way of life and make some many people follow it soo intense as the way that japanese follow it.
Fonts:
http://japanpop.jp/english/index.html
en.citizendium.org
http://www.protoculture.ca/eZine/illos/0834803801.jpg
www.asian-central.com/.../14/2-purikura-photos/
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