{"id":70,"date":"2005-02-10T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T22:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=70"},"modified":"2005-03-15T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T14:23:31","slug":"tony-takitani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/02\/10\/tony-takitani\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life as a Human Being, Miro Svolik and &#8220;Tony Takitani&#8221; a Life of a Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/head.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Miro Svolik\" \/><br \/>\nThe above untitled photo is by Miro Svolik a Czech photographer. Miro was born in Slovakia,  and now works in Prague.  Most of his photos have poetic titles &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.czechslovakphotos.com\/html\/svolik11.html\">Because the Attraction of the Infinite is Infinite<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.czechslovakphotos.com\/html\/svolik6.html\"> &#8220;I Crowned Myself the Empoeror&#8221;<\/a> &#8220;He seems to see no division between reality and a dream state. His work has the same charm and fresh simplicity as Duane Michals-it makes you wonder, &#8220;Why is it I never thought of that?&#8221; ..from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.czechslovakphotos.com\/html\/svolik.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many months ago I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/murakami\/site.php?id=\">Haruki Murakami&#8217;s<\/a> short fiction in the New Yorker titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/content\/?020415fi_fiction\">&#8220;Tony Takitani&#8221;.<\/a> &#8220;Tony Takitani&#8221; has been adapted to a film by Jun Ichikawa  which is now getting reviews following its introduction at the Sundance Film Festival. Here are couple of reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmmakermagazine.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/at-sundance-recurring-refrains.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lff.org.uk\/films_details.php?FilmID=545\">here.<\/a> The film now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonytakitani.com\">web site<\/a> and a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/jp\/quicktime\/trailers\/theatres\/tonytakitani_large.html\"> trailer<\/a> in Japanese.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above untitled photo is by Miro Svolik a Czech photographer. Miro was born in Slovakia, and now works in Prague. Most of his photos have poetic titles &#8211; Because the Attraction of the Infinite is Infinite or &#8220;I Crowned Myself the Empoeror&#8221; &#8220;He seems to see no division between reality and a dream state. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/02\/10\/tony-takitani\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Life as a Human Being, Miro Svolik and &#8220;Tony Takitani&#8221; a Life of a Film&#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":[2,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cinema","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}