I'm not watching much television in Japan. Its that language thing. I'm illiterate. I know nothing. Pictures, please. Pointing. (Nihongo ga wakarimasen).
The link to the Unicode Movie came through my Twitter feed twice before I looked at it. The keyword was 'hypnotic'. Pretty much every glyph used in the digital universe passes before your eyes, one glyph per frame... 33,000 or so.
So, some chocolate, cheap red wine, some Van Morrison and a dark room to enhance the contrast. For free you get a half hour or so of contemplative hypnosis. Do this on a wireless connection so that every now and then the buffering occasions a still-screen with a single unicode glyph that persists for a few seconds, full of irony, or karma, or some other imagined semantic touchstone. My favorite (so far) is 4 or 5 seconds of the Kanji character for 'strength'. The art of techmnology.
Try it, you'll like it.
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Stone lanterns and the roof profile of the Tsukubasan Shrine. From my bicycle trip to Tskuba san. Ibaraki's version of Mr. Mountain. Lord, I am not worthy.
