Monday, November 16, 2009
Woah!
This blog normally publishes non-political material on the weekends, which means that this video arrives some 90 minutes over the limit line. But I just had to share this YouTube discovery, because it's the trippiest thing since Inland Empire. Does anyone out there know who put this sequence together...? (Feel free to 'shroom while watching, but don't hold me responsible for the consequences.)
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Joe - It's even more amazing than you know: All the dancers are deaf.
The video is of the Thousand-Hand Guan Yin, as performed by the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe. A search for "Thousand-Hand Guan Yin" will bring up additional photos and footage.
http://laughingsquid.com/deaf-chinese-dancers-perform-of-the-thousand-hand-guan-yin/
On occasion I've violated somebody's copyright by using clips from this video while VJing.
Deaf...?
You
are
shitting
me
HolyholyholySomethingorother. My brain just exploded.
Incredible...
i wonder how many VJs read cannonfire (me I only mix koyanisquatsi w/ feedback loops, but hey, somebody's gotta suck)
I've been doing some research. Turns out that in Japan, the goddess represented in this video is called -- er, um -- Kannon. That's a corruption of Guan Shi Yin, meaning The One Who Hears All Who Cry Out In Pain.
Mr. Joseph, speaking of visuals, and trippy, have you seen this 1961 short film?
http://www.nfb.ca/film/Very_Nice_Very_Nice/
..and/or know the story about Lipsett, Larkin, and all the other NFB Casualties of cointelpro?
When I saw this some years ago I assumed it portrayed a Hindu deity. Guess the multi-armed motif was more popular than I knew.
XI
Beautiful..... Absolutely beautiful!
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