Hey everyone!  Marina here again to give you all an update!  Danny’s uploaded two new movies!  The first, “A Dream” can be found on your left under animation, while the other, “Catharsis,” can be found under a new section, video!

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I’ve been pretty busy lately with work but I finally got around to finish re-editing them, along with completely redoing the sound for “A Dream.”

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Yes folks, this guy’s been staying up late getting these videos done while trying to keep on top of work.  Y’know, maybe if you didn’t watch so much anime all the time, you’d be a lot more efficient and not have to stay up all night…  So why don’t you tell us a little bit about the movies?

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Uhhh, so let’s see…  “A Dream” is a short animation that was the final project for my advanced maya class.  It’s based off of an old Buddhist saying that describes the hidden, true nature of this world.  The movie is a dream where this hidden, subconscious world emerges, grows and overtakes our “conscious” world, illustrated by a city.

Oh, I believe the quote is from The Diamond Sutra, section XXXII: The Delusion of Appearances~!  For those wondering, “Thus have I heard” at the beginning of the animation is the very first line from The Diamond Sutra.  Now, “Catharsis” was based on a similar concept of “truth,” but one that ends very differently, huh?

Yes, “Catharsis” is a video starring yours truly about a man on an endless journey for truth, symbolized by light.  Conventionally, absolute truth is symbolized by the sun, true light.  However, here the man is constantly chasing after false truth, symbolized by light bulbs or false light and eventually he finds himself trapped within his own mind, his own insanity.  He then has a catharsis moment by rejecting the light bulb and breaking it, but will wake up only to be drawn towards false truth yet again.  The video is in this sense endlessly loop-able.  Btw how the heck did you know the exact section the dream quote was from??

Also for your information, catharsis means the purging of the emotions through certain kinds of art resulting in spiritual renewal.  It was his final for Intro to Video class back in sophomore year of college…  Oh!  I almost forgot to mention, we’ve also added some links in the friends page!  They’re all awesome artists you should all definitely check out!  It was really nice of them to let us add their links on our site, right Danny?

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