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Ghost World

Funny and cynical.
The psychology of teenagers must be like that.
Scarlett Johansson is now a big star, but in the film she was still a cute girl.

The story itself seems to be simple, but actually it should be deep.
I felt I wish I could go back to days of teenager. They are free but don’t know where to go. At that time, it was just frustrated, but now I think it was a precious time.

2008 Power 100 List

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/14/baartists114.xml

The top is Damian Harst.
The only Japanese on the list is Takashi Murakami. He is really successful, some Japanese criticise him though.
Anyway, just one is a little bit miserable... How to make Japanese more international is a big challenge.

Philippe Starck's interviews

His interviews are really interesting.
He really thinks about future.

http://www.zeit.de/2008/14/Designer-Starck-14
Die Zeit in German
http://handmadezwonull.blogspot.com/2008/03/die-zeit-interview-with-philippe-starck.html
translation into English

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb2008078_897279.htm
Business Week in English

I really agree with the following part:

Society is pursuing a strategy of dematerialization: it is more and more about intelligence and less about material.

Philosophy for art and life

I went to my overseas study agency, and saw my agent. There were other students and he told us about Yoji Yamamoto and Issei Miyake. In his opinion, Yoji Yamamoto is like a cult religion. When he went to his studio in Paris, every staff looked like him. On the other hand, Issei Miyake is quite normal, and he has a philosophy of his works.

Recently I have felt philosophy is important for not only art but also life itself. I think people who have their philosophy are attractive, but actually it is difficult to answer the question of what your philosophy is.

My philosophy is like the following:
I think communication is really important for peaceful life. Most of troubles are caused by miscommunication or non communication.
You must have passion to achieve some dreams in your life, otherwise you lose your value to live. Just living to live is the same as death.

I must deepen them for all of my life.