It's my martial arts world

[King Bob]

Slightly off the main topic, but following the previous posts, a good article on cultural appropriation

[El Dingo]

Cultural Appropriation is awesome. Loving alternate cultures and attempting to emulate them is awesome. We should start by appropriating foreign holidays and making them national non-working holidays, starting with Chinese and Japanese "Children's Day", "Grandparent's Day", "Grave-Sweeping Day" etc.

Then we need to have more men wear kilts, bring back the Chinese queue, more women in Saris and Kimonos.

I believe cultural tolerance and eventual blending leads to world peace.

Not those stupid cowboy boots with the long toes. That shit is entering Ugg territory.

But seriously folks, if someone wearing your ancestors clothing offends you, you have serious priority issues. All cultures die eventually (if you don't believe me, try reading American documents from 1776).

If you still don't believe me, champion foot-binding and female genital-mutilation claiming cultural righteousness.

See you in the Star Trek universe!

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

I‘m with El Dingo on this one. “All culture is synthesis“ (John Shirley). Seriously, no culture was ever created in a vaccuum. The real question is someone being an asshole about it. I like seeing American culture getting worked over, folded up, spun around, and then kicked back to the USA. Music is king, along with food. Rap coming out of Europe, jazz out of Japan, all good. I ordered the Hamburger l’Americain” when I was in Paris years ago just to see what they thought it was. It was a cooked patty sitting on french fries, with a fried egg on top of the patty. Served by a surly middle-aged waiter.

Voila!

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King Bob: Good article.

[Greg]

How did you find a surly waiter in Paris?

[Drunk Monk]

Actually cultural appropriation didn't come up at all at my Oakland Museum talk.  

Our parent company sells all sorts of Asian style attire.  Appropriate away.  In fact, I think most of you would look good in it.  Particularly PPFY.  Chinese garb is much more flattering than knickers.  

[El Dingo]

How did you find a surly waiter in Paris?

When we visited Paris everyone was an asshole. Reminded me of New York. I hear France outside of Paris is very nice.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

France outside Paris *is* very nice. I agree with your New York analogy.

[Drunk Monk]

I can hardly wait.  Paris is less than a month away for us.

[Drunk Monk]

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[Greg]

Well, if we can win Free the Fool, I'm sure this will be a cakewalk.

[Drunk Monk]

Martial arts: Gentle Monster opens a kung fu-fighting London boutique
FASHION / 30 JUL 2018 / BY LAURA HAWKINS




Seoul-based opticals label Gentle Monster has opened its first European flagship in London

INFORMATION
For more information, visit the Gentle Monster website
ADDRESS
28-29 Argyll Street, London W1F 7EB

Every three minutes on the ground floor of a boutique on Argyll Street in Central London, a large gong sounds. The sound of its tremors reverberate around the space, causing the arms of mop-haired and pinecone-like warrior aliens to jolt into life. Extraterrestrial invasion? Science-fiction fantasy? Or the latest larger-than-human-life retail concept of Seoul-based opticals label Gentle Monster.
‘We were thinking about tiny alien beings obsessed with kung fu,’ explains the brand’s managing director Gary Bott, of the London store’s retail concept. Gentle Monster is renowned for its innovative and imaginative approach to store design. Cue a harvest-inspired outpost in Downtown LA, complete with a gentle undulating rice field, a folklore-focused boutique in Guangzhou, China or a Singapore space inspired by the philosophy of Nietzsche. 

For its two-floor martial arts extravaganza in London, Gentle Monster imagined a ground floor space populated by warrior aliens, their armoured bodies constructed from undulating fronds of raffia, weaved panels of fabric and mirrored metal. Downstairs on the lower ground floor sit rows of tiny armed aliens, their limbs too limited for battle, and their minds controlling the extraterrestrial troops upstairs.    
For each space, Gentle Monster create a unique multisensory environment, complete with a fragrance and soundscape. Amongst the rows of the label’s signature flat and two-tone styles – manufactured in the brand’s Korean and Chinese factories – customers are also greeted by a battlefield surrounded by shrub-like forms, rows of cheering aliens clutching glittering pom poms, and even an alien hall of fame of the planet’s most fearsome fighters. Kapow! §
Related: It’s harvest time at Gentle Monster’s new boutique in Los Angeles



The Argyll Street location imagines a planet inhabited by kung fu-performing aliens



The lower ground floor comes complete with an alien battlefield



The two floor space showcases the South Korean brand’s signature two tone and flat lens styles



Rows of sunglasses are surrounded by blob-like cheerleading aliens

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

...wow. I hope they go broke and then catch fire and die screaming.

[Drunk Monk]

I still can't grok this.

But I think it might work for the design of Victory SF.

[Drunk Monk]

Speaking of ideas for Victory SF....



Note - this is 8:21 you'll never get back.  Strongly suggest that you stop before the 1 min mark and just skip to the end around 6:45 or so.  Also suggest you mute the sound and put on some bagpipe music.  

Will Victory SF sell kilts?  Asking for a friend.

[Greg]

Donnie Yen talks about why Star Wars doesn't work in China. You've heard all this before. But it is Donnie Yen Saying it.

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/rogue-one-s...y-in-china