{"id":11747,"date":"2010-12-22T06:45:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2015-04-29T07:44:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:44:24","slug":"the-moon-the-sun-and-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/12\/22\/the-moon-the-sun-and-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon, the Sun and the Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/12\/30\/martin-wong\/\">Martin Wong<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/martinWinter.jpg\" alt=\"martinWinter\" title=\"martinWinter\" width=\"384\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/martinWinter.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/martinWinter-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mhZWIgUUPZ8&#038;feature=player_embedded\">Did you look up the sky?<\/a> and in two years we will have 2012 Phenomenon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2012_phenomenon\">December 21, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_HZtW_rVYs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The SUn DIRECTED &#038; PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEXANDER SOKUROV<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmforum.org\/films\/sun.html\"> (Filmforum)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2005\/sep\/13\/japan.jgballard\">J G <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/04\/19\/jg-ballard-rip\/\">Ballard<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jgballard.jpg\" alt=\"jgballard\" title=\"jgballard\" width=\"233\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jgballard.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jgballard-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/> applauds Alexander Sokurov&#8217;s remarkable film portrait of Hirohito. But why did the war ever begin? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2005\/sep\/13\/japan.jgballard\">Ballard asked.<\/a> (Secrets of the emperor&#8217;s bunker &#8211; Guardian)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rfIbFlUt1cg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rfIbFlUt1cg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rfIbFlUt1cg\">Ostrov part I<\/a> (youtube)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Island_%282006_film%29\">The Island<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The film&#8217;s director Pavel Lungin, speaking of the central character&#8217;s self-awareness, said he doesn&#8217;t regard him as being clever or spiritual, but blessed &#8220;in the sense that he is an exposed nerve, which connects to the pains of this world. His absolute power is a reaction to the pain of those people who come to it;&#8221; while &#8220;typically, when the miracle happens, the lay people asking for a miracle are always dissatisfied&#8221; because &#8220;the world does not tolerate domestic miracles.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ostrov-10.jpg\" alt=\"ostrov-10\" title=\"ostrov-10\" width=\"400\" height=\"173\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ostrov-10.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ostrov-10-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/> Ostrov. <\/p>\n<p>Previous post<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/04\/19\/jg-ballard-rip\/\"> JG Ballard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/07\/15\/name-these-children\/\"> Name these children <\/a>album  : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/02\/17\/costume-and-sand\/\">Costume and Sand<\/a> <> <> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/07\/26\/the-three-kings\/\">Three Kings <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Wong Did you look up the sky? and in two years we will have 2012 Phenomenon. The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012 The SUn DIRECTED &#038; PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEXANDER SOKUROV (Filmforum) J G Ballard applauds Alexander Sokurov&#8217;s remarkable film portrait &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/12\/22\/the-moon-the-sun-and-the-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moon, the Sun and the Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cinema","category-culture","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}