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Originally posted by fenkashi
Screw your opinions, they are not relevant ^^.

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It's a good thing that the sculpture's name was written on the accompanying banner or we might never have known what it was supposed to be...

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tremendous amount of money time and energy wasted for something soo temporary


yeah ................

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Time and energy certainly, but I don't know how costly it is to produce the sculptures. They make them from snow that already exists, and work in teams to erect them. I saw one as it was being made, and it seemed the snow had been formed into big bricks elsewhere, then brought to the site to be sculpted.

It also brings in loads and loads of money for the city from tourism, so it's not really a waste, is it?

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Originally posted by arren18
It also brings in loads and loads of money for the city from tourism, so it's not really a waste, is it?

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if you think that way then okay

about cost i feel like that there is a giant fridge under those sculptures cause in my opinion they should melt very fast due to lighting and other factors.

i feel that this is not correct

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They make them from snow that already exists

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as you mentioned cause snow is not ice

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it seemed the snow had been formed into big bricks elsewhere

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at those temps it should not be possible to make brick hard ice naturally. It should actually be called frozen water. If they fill us a huge pool and freeze it then they could get those but my question is , is it possible.However these are my personal opinions and i have never experienced snowfall so my judgement may be wrong.I have no idea if temperature is that low there or not

I saw a guy making the word discovery in discovery channel and saw it required many equipments and precautions so it does not melt.



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i might be totally wrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ice...culpture_events

it seems there are both types.

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The Japanese city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaidō is famous for its winter carnival, in which teams compete to create ice sculptures. Some of these creations are the size of multiple-story buildings. Japanese sculptors have made many contributions to the art. Notable Japanese ice sculptors include Yukio Matsuo, author of "Ice Sculpture: Secrets of a Japanese Master," Mitsuo Shimizu, author of several Japanese books on ice sculpture, and Junichi Nakamura, winner of multiple world ice sculpting titles. Ice sculpture has been popular in Japan since the 1930s and an early advocate and teacher in the country was Shuko Kobayashi, the first chairman of the Japan Ice Sculpture Association.

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its a uniquely Miyazaki film, one only he could make and its uniqueness places it beyond being easily critiqued.[About Porco Rosso]
taken from a quote of Saddletank and Orphic Okapi

Post last edited by saviour2012 on 02.28.2014, 04:44 AM.

Why not accept something as being merely beautiful, savior, just for the pleasure it brings to the eye? Everything does not have to be broken down in detail in an attempt to denigrate it. These sculptures are works of art, albeit temporary, and if they are not to your liking, oh well.

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Out of the photographs I showed, the first one is made from ice and all the rest from snow. There were only a small number of ice sculptures there. And I can confirm that it was very cold in Sapporo.

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Originally posted by husky51
Why not accept something as being merely beautiful, savior, just for the pleasure it brings to the eye? Everything does not have to be broken down in detail in an attempt to denigrate it. These sculptures are works of art, albeit temporary, and if they are not to your liking, oh well.

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its a uniquely Miyazaki film, one only he could make and its uniqueness places it beyond being easily critiqued.[About Porco Rosso]
taken from a quote of Saddletank and Orphic Okapi

Post last edited by saviour2012 on 02.28.2014, 07:12 AM.

Sorry I haven't posted much for a while! I've been very busy in the last couple of weeks, but I've taken lots of pictures, so once I'm more active I'll start posting them again.

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There's a place where a guy who serves cappucino coffees makes each froth topping into a beautiful sculpture or picture. These "works of art" vanish within minutes and only the artist and the person who drinks the coffee can appreciate them, unless photographs are taken, but even so this is a legitimate use of time, skill and energy because it brings people PLEASURE.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cappuc...920&bih=940

Even if a work of art only brings value to the person who created it, it is worthwhile.

You're now saying that something that only brings pleasure to people you cannot like, just because some people do some unacceptable things purely for pleasure. That's so... twisted and negative. You have a bitter mind.

I agree that places like Sapporo that have ice sculpture festivals attract many tourists and tourists will always inject money into a community. There's no "if you say so" about it - its fact.

Really Saviour, just accept that there is beauty and pleasure in many apparently trivial things and as Husky says, don't go through your life dissecting everything and deciding that if it doesn't slot neatly into your personal life values system then it is without any value altogether. You keep going on and on about Kaze Tachinu not winning the Oscars but quite frankly, so what? That work has brought pleasure to tens of thousands and I expect Hayao Miyazaki is very satisfied with it.

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Saddle as i said anything about art is my personal opinion.

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its a uniquely Miyazaki film, one only he could make and its uniqueness places it beyond being easily critiqued.[About Porco Rosso]
taken from a quote of Saddletank and Orphic Okapi

Never mind. That conversation happened about a month ago. Based on having really been there, I was very impressed by the sculptures and don't think it's a waste.

Anyway, I'm now back in Kyoto so I'll be able to post something again soon. Any particular requests?

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I've taken a while sorting through all my photos from March (there's still plenty in between too...) but I was doing some today which included the Ghibli Museum! I figured that would be of particular interest here. Note that they're all from outside, because photography isn't allowed in the museum itself.











And this one is all the things that I bought there! This excludes a postcard I forgot to take a picture of, and one of the beer bottles from the earlier picture. I also have closer-up pictures of several of them.

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Great T-shirt.

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It also has a design on the back! I'll put up a picture of that some time tomorrow so you can see.

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The back of the T-shirt, as promised:


Also, since I have other pictures too, I'll post them here. First are these little film frames which you can put under a lens to view a very very short portion of animation. You get one when you go in, and you use it to go in to the cinema room, but these I bought in the shop.


This is a viewer for the frames, which they also sold in the shop.


And this is a postcard which folds into a little model of the museum. As you can see, I folded it myself, so I have no intention of using it as a postcard.

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That post card is really cute How does that viewer work?

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Originally posted by fenkashi
Screw your opinions, they are not relevant ^^.

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You can see the lens in that photo. Also pictured is the little frame card that I got when I turned up. It's slotted into a bit in the back of the viewer, so that you then slide the card up and down to show the different frames, and look through the lens to see them properly.

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Recently I was sorting the photos I took in Korea, so here are some of them:

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That swordsmanship display is very neat, love the colourful costumes.

How do the Koreans feel about the Japanese? Did you get any hint of emnity? I know the Japanese have historically claimed the country and given them a hard time in various incidents.

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