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irithnova · 4 months
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I'm going insane over this information but.
Part of the Monlam festival (Great Prayer Festival) is literally dedicated to Tibet just cosplaying as Mongolia (Yarsol)
"Yarsol is part of Monlam (The Great Prayer Festival), which falls during the first month of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar and was, in the past, held just outside of Lhasa at the Jokang Temple. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Monlam was periodically banned and reinstated by the occupying Chinese forces, before being suspended in 1990. The festival is still upheld by Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in exile.
Customarily, two prominent men were asked to impersonate Mongolian generals and act as hosts for the festival - a great honour and a great expense. Here, one wears the winter garb of a gentleman of the Khalkha Mongols, with brocade robes and a black fox-fur hat. His silk shirt had to have five colours showing.
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In hot weather a fabric cloak and a papier maché hat would be worn.
During the last days of Monlam, archery, shooting and wrestling displays are held; this part of the festival is called Yarsol.
Participants wear historical costumes, like this performer who is depicted wearing a seventeenth century Mongolian-style uniform.
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He wears a vulture headdress and carries a battle-axe in his left hand."
They're insane for each other your Honour.
Source is the book "The Fabric of Tibet", illustrations by Anne Jennings
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lilithism1848 · 7 months
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spacevixenmusic · 9 months
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Unfairly Maligned Games, Vol. 3
Games I loved that got low scores, review bombed, or have some other weird negative stigma attached to them that I think is unfairly earned.
NOTE: I don't believe in giving games a number score or a letter grade. Maybe I'm just bad at criticism or very easy to please, whatever.
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Indivisible [2019]
Mostly only known as the "from the makers of Skullgirls" game, Indivisible is another prime example of a game that was crowdfunded as one thing but turned into another, and gets a bad rap for its association with the ever-present controversiality of Skullgirls' creators. That said, I still think - as always - that it's crucial to view a game for what it is, not what it isn't. And what it IS is an extremely engaging mish-mash of genres and endearing characters, oozing with style and appeal, that fills a very particular void left behind by some of the most classic RPGs of a bygone era.
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At its core, Indivisible is a 2D Metroidvania/RPG hybrid with an unusual battle system that plays similarly to an old PSX game series called Valkyrie Profile. During combat, each character's gauge will fill up, allowing them to take action(s). Your four party members are each assigned to one of the four face buttons on a controller (e.g. A, B, X, Y), and pressing that button will - in real-time - execute an attack on the enemy. Using it in combination the D-Pad allows for several different types of attack. All party members' attacks can overlap simultaneously, allowing you to string together combos to really rack up the damage, or juggle enemies to prevent counterattacks and break their defenses. The Metroidvania and platforming portion comprises the rest of the game, with a heavy focus on using those same action skills to scale massive environments, solve platforming puzzles, and dodge spikes. Typical Metroidvania stuff.
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Story-wise, in our modern world of RPGs that is dominated almost exclusively by Japanese and Scandinavian narratives, Indivisible is breath of fresh air that focuses heavily on South and East Asian mythology and themes. Heavy inspiration is taken from the cultures of India, Tibet, Mongolia, and the South Pacific. This is reflected not only in the characters and their various ethnicities, but in the game's approach to spirituality, reincarnation, second chances, and being a teenager hellbent on destroying god. Our main protagonist Ajna is a teenager studying martial arts who isn't quite as in touch with her spirituality as her mentor would like her to be. When war strikes the land and burns her home to the ground, she gets pissed and sets out on a quest for retribution, discovering in the process that she actually does possess certain godlike powers of destruction, and also that she can absorb certain people into her head, which is just a cute way of lampshading having a Party System.
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I've seen Reviewers and big Opinion-Havers on the internet criticize the game's writing for having a bull-headed protagonist who boldly rushes into confrontation, unleashing her wanton destruction without first considering the catastrophic consequences for civilians. It's almost like they've forgotten what being a teenager and making poor choices is like. But I say fuck 'em. I say we need MORE stories about uninformed teenagers with immense godlike powers and no sense of nuance making rash decisions and fucking up royally. That alone is crucial to understanding the rest of the game's themes about atonement, reincarnation, and understanding why you believe what you believe in. That's what Indivisible is all about. In many ways, I feel like Ajna shares a common story arc with Korra from the Avatar series, and it's very cool to see how she learns to deal with the damage she's caused and what insight that gives her when facing down the Big Bad.
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Of course, what is a good story without characters to flesh it out? The characters in this game are absolutely charming and multifaceted, coming from a wide array of different cultures and personalities, many of which are vastly underrepresented in not only RPGs but video games in general. Personal favorites include, but are not limited to, big booba water mom Thorani (based on a buddhist deity of the same name), Leilani the Hawaiian sharknado (spins around in a cyclone attack using a leiomano, a Hawaiian shark-tooth sword), lesbian pirate mom Baozhai (based on the famous Chinese pirate Ching Shih), and of course, local nihilistic swamp witch Razmi (a loose mishmash of Korean and Persian Zoroastrian shamans). The full cast of characters is enormous (well over 20 playable ones alone), and each one comes with a unique moveset and playstyle that not only keeps gameplay interesting, but matches their personality and the role they play in the story.
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But if there's one thing I truly want to focus on when I gush about this game, it's this. Indivisible has one thing over most other games of its genre, something that modern RPGs in particular suffer heavily from a severe lack of, and that's its strong commitment to multiculturalism. Indivisible made a clear decision to not only feature characters from around the globe, but to blend their cultures together in interesting and exciting ways that don't diminish or water them down. Every character is allowed to shine in their own way without diluting what makes them stand out in the first place, which is why you can have a game that features a gunblade-wielding cowboy, a Namibian songstress, an armless Chinese dancer, a Kamen Rider knock-off, and a Mongolian archer who people keep mistaking for Pearl from Steven Universe. This sort of melting-pot cultural stew used to be common in classic anime and 90s RPGs, but kind of fell out of fashion with the rise of gacha waifu games and Elder Scrolls derivatives. Now more than ever, I feel like Indivisible is exactly the sort of injection the gaming world needs to rekindle those flames of pure imagination that the old classic era brought us.
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All that said, one of the biggest reasons Indivisible will always have a dark mark next to its name is of course due to the fact that its lead designer (the studio head) was involved in a sexual harassment case that resulted in everyone on the team either quitting or being laid off, and the rights to the work and characters getting lost in the shuffle. Additionally, the game was still finished and released as intended, but did not feature any of the guest star characters that were promised during crowdfunding, most of whom were indie darlings of the time (Shovel Knight, Hyper Light Drifter, and Super Time Force to name a few). Naturally, this has left a sour taste in many folks' mouths, so it is somewhat understandable why the game would have a negative stigma attached. There are also a few bizarre and possibly off-putting cameos hidden among the NPCs (a few outdated meme references and Zone-tan, of all people), but these are entirely skippable and serve only as background extras.
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Sour grapes aside though, I wholeheartedly recommend Indivisible for anyone looking for a fresh take on action RPGs. The neat hybridization of Metroidvania and real-time RPG with fighting game mechanics gives it a very unique identity, and if the compelling spirituality of the story doesn't grab you, the charm of the characters absolutely will. It certainly took me for a ride. My only word of caution is to follow the game's own suggestion and get good at Blocking in combat as early as you can!
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peonycats · 10 months
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Mongolia x Tibet is jock4jock. no i will not elaborate.
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999-roses · 1 year
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unpacking 'sinophone' and its sinophobic roots
so. it never occurred to me to just type "sino diaspora" into google before.
and google is like "oi!! you meant sinophone yeah? here's wikipedia on sinophone" and here's like the other top results
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I'm squinting. What the hell do you academics have against diaspora using the term diaspora?? I click.
inb4 this whole rant: I have no qualms with using sinophone as a language-family-use descriptor (like sinophone media), but coming from academia or as an academic field unto itself. but. the literature about wanting to use it as a demographics thing & separate it from "chineseness". just. looook if anyone knows that they're no longer like this let me know. with what im seeing, im having a bad faith moment
so... this is the academic that's hard pushed the term for sinophone.
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"crit on orientalism might be complicit for allowing Chinese intellectuals to call themselves victim under an 'unreflective' nationalism" & "but the flipside may be a new imperialism" yeah?? any more unsubstantiated claims???
What a joke!! Clearly only takes authority about Chinese history from western sources, like literally has the uncritical echo of "X country doesn't deserve territorial integrity" that literally fueled western imperialism, and not just of China. Treaty of Nanjing 1842 ringing no bells? Sigh. National sovereignty is the barest basis against overt imperialism where someone just comes over and declares where you live their colony!!! ... is this a test in how far can you stretch the definition of imperialism or colonization? lmfao, China invests in poverty-relieving measures like building houses and improving infrastructure out in Tibet, Guizhou, Xinjiang, and you have the audacity to call that colonizing?!? 我真无言了。
different article by the same person:
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laughable to think that the Chinese state even bothers to think I exist, let alone talk to me about my diaspora status. (I was born in the US)
also, people are really out there saying 'diaspora has an end date' huh
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here it is. here is the 'scholar' conflating American or western imperialism with things Big Bad Scary Red China does.
Clearly mixing up concepts of tributary system with colonialism, and acting like historically (other than Yuan era under Genghis) that ancient China/Chinese culture was expansionist, going around trying to conquer peoples and set up colonies. Admiral Zheng He would spit on you.
Comparing the spread of culture and language in Ancient China to the colonization and subjugation that the French/Belgium did in Africa, or the British Empire, or the Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America, is so blatantly dishonest. The indigenous people of Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang still speak their own languages and use their own scripts, and yes, they learn them in schools alongside the national language... which is Chinese!!! Yes the Hanyu writing system was adopted and adapted by many neighboring cultures in ancient times, but you literally don't examine WHY? The fluidity in its system: frequently non-Han peoples invented characters to suit their language, like there's even some Canto-specific characters that are in use today. Another reason that Chinese writing system was so popular was because two Sinitic language speakers who do not speak the same language could communicate through the same script. Yeah, Ancient Chinese scholars and dignitaries often had an insufferable elite-ness and superiority complex, but describing their attitude as subjugating and forcing other people to adopt their system? What a wildly malicious mischaracterisation!
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just... mask off, gringo butt-licker.
Please. where is the "Chinese containment" policy? The white papers reaffirming what the international community agrees, what Taiwan historically agrees (tho Taiwan held that it was the true capital/head of all of China), that Taiwan is part of China?? I know this article was written back in 2010s but are you seriously comparing American weapons deals and boots on the ground with Chinese military exercises in Chinese territory that haven't harmed a single civilian? "critical" my ass!
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gotta love the title of this one. yeah, I know it, I've seen it before. the Chinese or feminist binary, pick a side /s
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but hey in this piece she admits she's ignorant and unobjective and out of her league sometimes?
edit: found this:
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yeah that about seals it for me. anti"diaspora" sinophobe
#sino diaspora#diaspora#逆向种族分子#long post#chen yells at clouds. more at 10#sinophobia#sorry. personal rabbit hole. and taking things personally#we're committing ad hominem crimes today folks#sure chinese->lunar new year. im fine w that. but can you fucks stop trying to take away chineseness away from people who still ID as???#this person is literally doing the western empire's work of laying ground for sinophobia#can't tell if this academic is a grifter or actually serious lmfao#as if american chinese diaspora don't call americans 老美 and call ourselves 老中. i mean yes i call myself 老美 when in china but hello??#you cloak your 'expertise' in the lingua & clothes & rituals of western academics. just shake your colonized ass for white people more#reading this drivel makes me want to go into asian american studies & grab this and shake it around like a ragdoll.#but im reminded that western institutions and definitely academics unquestionably cite western sources w/o hesitation#but give anything coming out of China even just academics not anything gov related with skepticism. so it's probably a no-fly#yeah sure im a 'sinophone' but im also diaspora so fuck you. 你忘了你祖先你的族梗。你这个逆子找白人拜金去了。就你这样做榜样?让海外华裔立起来?丢死人。跟你的英文大白菜出卖同类吧#fuck you for saying that diaspora's connection to their heritage & culture are currently being severed& should be severed & studied as such#like literally uncritical of how exactly that happens. why so many diaspora have internalized racism driving them to scrub themselves of#their asianness heck even chineseness. try to scrub it all away but you still got an asian face. so fuck you#didn't look into 'asian american studies' much before but if it's a lot like this... well. 🤨#like this academic is so disconnected from our shared histories AHSIJIJDSIAJDAAAHAAHGGHGGG#+ my poasts#imperial core circus
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papaveronamu · 7 months
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tibet x mongolia yaoi
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vittorioballato · 1 year
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cybergrotesque · 1 year
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Citipati, Mongolia (18th century), wood and pigment, 15 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (p. 145 ©All Rights Reserved from Buddhist Art of Tibet: In Malarepa’s Footsteps, Flammarion, 2022)
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ariuka-munkh · 5 years
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Happy super late Valentine's Day dude from Tibet and Mongolia!!
Gosh, my girl, really be out here, looking after me. If my friggin' useless crush is reading this, curse you for making me feel but not giving me a single card. This could be us, but you playing.
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irithnova · 1 year
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Mongolia and Tibet!! A commission by @beeyonker and their Instagram is @/_takip_silim
I have ascended
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lilithism1848 · 7 months
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flyingsassysaddles · 6 years
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APH rare pair week Day 2- Cooking/Baking
Here we have our favorite gals, Nyo!Tibet and Nyo!Mongolia! A bit sloppy cause I’m currently being murdered by finals kskdkks
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artsbysmarty · 6 years
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This is a bit far out there but can you draw Tibet x Mongolia?
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(No pair is too far out there you’re good ;) 
Also I did my best I hope it’s alright ^^)
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amechuqueen · 6 years
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Christmas gift
(FOR @flyingsassysaddles this is
NOT part of the secret Santa thing! this is just a nice gift to my good friend))
Stirring awake from a wonderful dream of past adventures Munkhbat stretched a bit and rubbed his eyes. something just felt off.. and were those bells he heard? every twist and every turn of his head he heard its obnoxious ring. "that son of a–if he.." walking to the bathroom.. almost fearful to glance in the mirror, the Mongolian felt brave. "by the great power of my ancestors I will SLAUGHTER THAT BASTARD" his hair.. his beautiful braid.. decorated like some damn Christmas tree!! tinsel, glitter, bells oh my! there was even a star where his braid ended. he knew the culprit behind this mess had to be Nergui (2p Mongolia) and by Khan's beard munkhbat was awaiting the moment of sweet vengeance! "oh you're awake? I'm gla–you decorated you're braid?! just for me?! Munkhbat.. that's so sweet!!" the Mongolian completely froze watching his Tibetan lovers eyes begin to tear up. Why was something so silly, so trivial.. so important? "uh.. of course! this is our first Christmas together after all"
"I'm gonna do my very best to make sure its the best!!" Tibet's excitement made the Mongolian grin from ear to ear. Tshering surely was the most precious thing he had ever laid eyes on. kissing munkhbat right on the cheek.. the smaller man happily skipped off to begin making the words for the duos Christmas sweaters!
itchy, gross sweaters..
Tibet gave himself a confident grin. "munkhbat do you like it?! yours says.. “i KHAN make Santa's good list!” do you like it? do you? do you?? oh! oh! try it on! please try it on!" Could the Mongolian say no to those puppy dog eyes? nope! he even added a cute pun.. just for him! Munkhbats heart nearly exploded right then and there.. on came the sweater. the itchy, itchy, itchy sweater..
Bear with it for Tshering..
Bear with it for Tshering..
resisting the urge to itch.. the tall man gave two thumbs up. the happy squeal from his partner made Mongolia's unbearable itching fade as he watched the Tibetan bounce and bounce around all over the place. he was surely.. very happy. baking, laughing, gift wrapping, their day consisted of nothing but fun! "do we really have to give Yao a gift?!"
"yes munkhbat"
"Aw come on!"
just a tad bit later.. after the day of exhausting, tiresome events. Mongolia found himself entering the kitchen for a snack when he noticed cute little Tshering fast asleep at the table. "looks like sleeping beauty didn't make it" the man simply chuckled.. how could he get so lucky!? Tibet was the best thing to ever come into his crazy life. Such a sweet, calming, man to share his life with. Picking up the slumbering nation bridal style.. Mongolia made sure Tibet was nice and comfy in the bed they shared. he even had a picture of Genghis Khan by his bedside to protect him! it was definitely a nice touch~ although munkhbat was the only one to actually think so.. what?! let him have his fanboy moments!!
anyway
returning to the kitchen.. he observed the paper Tibet was resting on prior. "all I want for Christmas is Munkhbats happiness" that did it.. tears soon found there way down the Mongolians cheeks and Munkhbat fell weak. "oh Tibet.. I love you so much" that's why.. Mongolia decided to give Tibet the best Christmas present EVER!!
"Mongolia why is their a giant macaroni Genghis Khan statue in my living room?!"
"I KNEW YOU'D LOVE IT BABE"
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peonycats · 3 years
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Do you have any fav ships?
Here are the canon (ish?) ships I really like! I add the ish because I interpret charas differently because I Own Hetalia, actually 
India x China: MY RIDE OR DIE SHIP- idk man, it’s about the endless centuries, the drama, the pettiness, the historic parallels, the horniness!!!!! I wrote something actually deep about this
“Despite our squabbling, he is the true mirror image of me, and I cannot look away. Blessed in blood, shaped by steel, but with different tongues, different siblings, different gods. We’ve been so many things, like it has been with all my neighbors who’ve survived the ache of time, that no label could ever do justice describing what he is to me. But it is he who just knows me in such a way nobody else could ever, and vice versa.”
And even with the current state of Sino-Indian relations there’s such an interesting history of Indian cultural exchange with China and historic parallels that is just begging to be explored!!!!
China x Iran/Persia x India: ancient asia ot3 baby! (vietnam and the other old feckers are prbly doing something actually productive) Iran has a long history of interaction with both India and China and the latter two prbly view Iran as “China/India but with less drama” lol
Thailand x Vietnam: I love this one because the dynamic between stoic serious Vietnam and sunshine boy Thailand makes me soft but also their geopolitical rivalry adds an absolutely fascinating lens to their relationship!! While I do adore the former, I wish more thaiviet content would also take into consideration the complicated history and geopolitical mess these two have with each other! (rip cambodia and laos tho)
Spain x Austria: hapsburg fuckery lets gooooooooo- love it because spain and austria are both garbage and their marriage was a mess and I revel in the chaos (AND ALSO THEY HAD A EUROPE’S TOP POWER COUPLE COMPETITION AGAINST FRANCE AND OTTOMAN EMPIRE WHEEZES)
Denmark x Sweden: I generally like rivalry ships lol and I’ve enjoyed a lot of the content created for this ship! Generally have trouble getting into a lot of nordic content because I disagree so strongly with most of the canon personalities, but I like this one because I love trash man x trash man :’’’) 
Egypt x Greece: Ancient momma’s boys! I’m pretty sure this one was mostly because of ask-the-ottomans shdfkhskfkjs- and also long suffering lads under Torkey’s nonsense :’^)
Tibet x Mongolia: GHSHDJFJS ADDING THIS ONE IN BECAUSE I FORGOT BUT I LOVE IT TOO as @flyingsassysaddles once said “Tibet is Mongolia’s emotional support vassal”
Ships I enjoy but don’t rly feel like creating content for-
Rusame, FRUK, SPUK, PruAusHun, and Romechu are all ships I enjoy but imo there’s already enough content and I must spread my rare pair propaganda 
CuCan and Nedcan is also nice but I do feel like that for Canada and especially Cuba their characterization is limited by whoever they’re being paired up with, and that’s just a shame tbh- I really wish we got to see deeper fandom characterizations of Cuba, which is a nation (along with the rest of the caribe) I have a lot of interest in!
Platonic/Familial-
Vietnam & China: I enjoy their platonic dynamic a lot because 1) two bickering senior citizens angrily waving their canes at each other and 2) I think that if you were to ignore the history, they can and do bond over a lot of things- being ancient in an age where life was cheap and you stood constant, unchanging, and they both have rather wry senses of humor (even if China is more outwardly cheerful/energetic than Viet)! it also makes me laugh at the thought of Vietnam 2,000 years ago hearing word about this fearsome warrior, the nation who made all submit before his very feet, proclaiming his right to rule over all under heaven, and upon actually meeting him, she finds out he’s actually a 5’6 dweeb
Taiwan & Hong Kong: POOH BEAR COMRADES IN ARMS who also bully Macau for being a square
Cameroon & Seychelles: I really love to see them having a sibling-esque relationship and I wanna see more interactions among aph africa!!!! I imagine that they got to know each other from both being under French colonial rule in the past (albeit different time periods), and cameroon is a big brother figure to sey :’’’ )
Spain & Portugal: I love dumb sibling dynamics :’’’ ) 
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bopinion · 4 years
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Book of the month / 2020 / 04 April
I love books. Even though I hardly read any. Because my library is more like a collection of tomes, coffee-table books, limited editions... in short: books in which not "only" the content counts, but also the editorial performance, the presentation, the curating of the topic - the book as a total work of art itself.
Before they pass away
Jimmy Nelson
Photography / 2013 / TeNeues Publishing house
This is a book about a journey. Or rather several. In 1988, British photographer Jimmy Nelson fell in love in Tibet with original social cultures and thus found the central theme of his future work. Since then, he has taken his camera everywhere where, at best, only National Geographic has been before.
His wanderlust is not limited to the regions in the Sub-Sahara or Papua New Guinea, where this theme normally leads. Nelson also visits other peoples known to us such as Maori in New Zealand, Gauchos in Argentina or Kazakhs in Mongolia. And to us completely new ones - or has anyone here already known about Ladakhi from the Himalayas, Zapotecs from Mexico or Nenets from Siberia? And he (still) finds living tribal cultures even in surprising places: for example in Marken in the Netherlands.
Nelson presents the exotic representatives of the people in the often breathtaking scenery of their still untouched nature of their homeland. Critics complain that the photos are staged and therefore not natural enough and correspond more to our westernized imagination than to the real life of the people portrayed today. But isn't that simply the difference between a photo reporter and a photographer? In any case, I don't mind if everyone looks into the camera and has taken off their sunglasses and wristwatches beforehand.
It's nice that the German publisher TeNeues (already on the market since 1931 with art prints and picture calendars) has put Nelson's pictures in a worthy frame. Printing technique and choice of paper - and the panorama size of 60 x 37 cm! - reproduce the richness of detail and colour precision that the large-plate field camera is capable of delivering. The attractive and pleasantly restrained layout does not compete with the visual power of the photos, the trilingual accompanying texts convey exactly the right background knowledge about people and places. All in all, this book is 5.5 kg of visual experience.
The euphoria of the media is not surprising, having won many awards, e.g. gold at the German Photo Book Prize 2014:
"A book that will captivate its readers aesthetically, intellectually and emotionally - and a treasure chest for future generations." (Bookstore)
"A coffee-table book that portrays the last ethnic groups who remained faithful to their tribal customs." (Vogue)
"Epic portraits of dignified warriors, close-knit family clans and centuries-old art forms (...) magnificently executed." (Focus)
Side note: To ensure that the title of the book remains more of a warning than a sad prediction, Jimmy Nelson has recently set up his own foundation for the preservation of the original cultural peoples. Raise awareness, Share knowledge, Spark reciprocity. I wish you luck - and them...
Here the link to a short clip (must see!) about the production of this book:
https://youtu.be/NKbBfO64ds0
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