I can't help but both be inspired and intrigued by everything I have read thus far of Donald's. Despite the difference in our ages, I can't help but feel in reading his work shared grounds in our experiences. Granted, I can only hope to spend time with people that will earn as much fame as those people Donald has spent time with. His observations come to me as being very obvious but at the same time things I might never had noticed had they not been pointed out. After reading only a few of his artilces it is easy to see why he is hailed as an expert on nearly everything Japanese despite his focus on film. Though I enjoy reading his style of observation and analysis, I don't feel that it is something that I could easily accomplish or emulate, though I would like to try. I particularly like the form that "The Japan Journals" takes; something I've only started reading in my spare time. But there is also something to be said for his more scholarly observations that can be read in the collection of articles "A Lateral View". They way he pieces together different aspects of Japanese culture to better explain the whole is briliant. I'm not sure, but his writings give me the impression that despite how on target he is about the subject, his findings are those that could only have been learned through the countless years of observations he has made and not those that could be found in any text book.
I'm still not really sure what I want to focus on for my final project, or even the medium. I'm leaning towards some sort of photographic journal type. I would really enjoy trying to play around with video but I feel that it may be too much for me to take on with what little editing and video experience I have. I'm not entirely sure of the subject yet either. Originally I had the idea to target the male hosts that roam the entrances of train stations and hassle every girl that passes. It would be an incredibly interesting topic, but agian, I'm afraid I may be biting off more than I can chew.
Ps- I'm also reading the novella "Snakes and Earrings" by Hitomi Kanehara. I highly recommend this short book. It's about a girl that is supposed to be a fashionable "Barbie-girl" that gets involved with two guys that are completely unlike her normal group of friends. One is a punk tattoo artist, the other a wannabe gangster. It has sex, fighting, and a central character grappling with her identity and the people she loves. Check it out.
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