id add chongqing and shenzhen theres a video called Chinas cyberpunk futuristic cities, looking at that the only thing thats missing are flying vehicles and holograms really
You guys should take a look at chongqing, an amazing city in china unkown to most people, i personally think that it is even more cyberpunk than HK itself, really recommend to take a look at the city skyline and its lifestyle. Good video man.
Hong Kong has its own problems as well - it has problems of subdivided flats and even "cage homes", which inspired the cage houses in Blade Runner 2049.
I came here from an HK forum. I find that you described our situation quite accurately and I appreciate that. The video quality, from bgm to editing is also quite good. Keep up the good work.
This a great breakdown, for some reason I started dreaming of the areas I'd lived in around the globe as these super exaggerated cyberpunk metropolises and city scapes. I'm definitely going to have to make Hong Kong one of my top spots to visit before I die.
yep it's good - I think you should give people a chance ^^ I make music. I work really really hard at it and am passionate about trying something new, I have talent people say so I am trying my best. :) please take a look if you like synth and cyberpunk
You should do a 2022 update. It would be cool to talk about the similarities between what cyberpunk authors thought the future would look like and how the world looks like now and beyond.
HongKong is just perfect for cyperpunk, the beauty from the outside and the ugliness in the inside, rude people, dirty streets, cramped houses, night markets, street racing at night, night clubs, illegal gambling, sky high rated violence, riot police on the streets sometimes with helmets you see in movies, a police state city in a totalitarianism country, and yea tall bright buildings, yes trust me I am a Hong Konger too. Hope more people in the world know about this small small city.
Increasingly it is also a cultural crossroads. West and East meeting and creating a future that is constantly in tension with itself. That is very inherent to Cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk it’s not fiction it’s the near future and Hong Kong its already there Edit : mega cities are being built everywhere, conscious AI and robots are on the way . Augmentations as well . Totalitarian governments and mega corporations checked . Mutations from radiation of an atom bomb ? Hiroshima Nagasaki? 🤔
Radiation doesn't give you the cool sci fi mutations, just cancer. Mega corporations (using the cyberpunk definition), well it would be a stretch to apply that moniker to any modern corporations. Mega cities? Nah. Nothing which exists today comes close to a megacity. The only thing which came close in terms of density was the kowloon walled city, but that was just one block and got demolished in the 90s. Nothing today comes close in terms of density in the scale of a city. Conscious ai... uh, no. We are no where near even remotely understanding what consciousness even is never mind recreating it. I will give you the augmentations part, but only because of how good prosthetic limbs are nowadays. We aren't close to actually fucking with the brain and putting computers in it yet and won't be for some time.
Thank you very much for that thorough explanation! I was deciding between Hong Kong and Tokyo as inspiration for my new Cities: Skylines series. I think I’ll just use both cities as inspiration!
A brilliant video that really goes to the core of the connection between that cyberpunk (both the genre and the aesthetic) and that great city. One thing I find particularly interesting is how the cyberpunk aesthetic has evolved and become codified. There are undoubtedly cultural markers in cinema that have helped solidify what cyberpunk looks like - themselves influenced by HK - but I think there have also been influences from other fields. In particular, I feel but cannot prove that some of the visual tropes we associated with the genre have their roots in mid-90s computer graphics. The black/cyan/magenta colour palette that we see so often in synthwave cover art is an obvious example. As well, certain graphics programming tricks like palette cycling have probably contributed to the modern cyberpunk aesthetic. More recently, even Unicode technology probably played a role. Once again, this was a brilliant video. Please keep making more!
I think that another large aspect of cyberpunk is the combining of metropolitan areas into one large city, or a megalopolis. This in mind, I think the over 120 kilometer urban sprawl of Tokyo would also make a good case for cyberpunk, not to mention the way the city looks when you are in it as well, it isn't quite the level of crazy that HK is, because it is kept cleaner, however I think that only applies to the streets, as I have seen some gnarly mishmashes of signage in commercial and mixed use areas.
even my parent watch hong kong family drama, detective, crime. Yet I am half hong konger who only dedicate want the sweet sugar cane juice and roast pork.
have to say though some things u see here would also fit for China town in Thailand (gives up the same vibes etc esp. at night) & maybe smaller areas in bangkok too. although HK is still better then any other asian city for cyberpunk.
There are more areas in the world for sure that also resemble Cyberpunk. Taiwan, Macau and Tokyo are also good exemples and they were also inspiratons for the setting of Blade Runner. I focused more on Hong Kong because politically its really similar. Thanks :)
The city seems so horribly overwhelming; like, I could easily imagine myself having a legit panic attack just trying to get a fresh breath in the middle of that sprawl - and panic attax aren't something I regularly have. Still, I'd love to visit Hong Kong, find a dark & seedy little alley nook, insert a shiny mini-disc into my laptop and do a little hacking. With lasers too .
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Watch New york in heavy rain binaural videos, and you see that this is the city closest to real Cyberpunk.
Too bad you didn't mention Kowloon walled city. It has been inspiration for many authors of dystopia fiction and it has that aesthetic feeling when it comes to cyberpunk setting.
@@catherinelee1206 wow, now thats awesome. i'd really like to visit someday, though with all the massive protests happening there right now, i guess ill visit at a later date.
Although I agree for the most part, a lot of the "old" in your video simply doesn't exist anymore in this day and age, the fishing villages are in the country side so obviously won't be as "modern", there are barely any rickshaws in HK the only ones left are for tourists because it's a thing of the past, but these are minor details
I disagree that HK should be a perfect setting for cyberpunk, at least at the moment, maybe back in the 80's & 90's. Because a lot of signs are being removed nowadays due to light pollution and a lot representations that should be regarded to a cyberpunk setting such as stalls/food stalls are all removed, at least from what I can see. So imo I think many other cities in other countries out there such as Tokyo or Seoul should be the best examples as of now.
The living standard inequalities irl HK is as bad as any fictional cyber punk settings. Id know, cus i live there.
Me too
You guys should hang out and do some cyberpunk stuff, like hacking or using mini-discs and lasers
Which area of HK would you consider to be the most cyberpunk?
@@llliiliiiiiililiiiliiiilllllli Kwun Tong
So do i
As a Hong Konger, I agree on a lot of this. I’ll make Tokyo the second cyberpunk setting.
Also, your channel is underrated, it deserves more views!
I'm fron Tokyo, I don't think Tokyo is a cyberpunk city. Chongqing takes number 2 for me.
佐藤仁 Tokyo is quite cyberpunk but it’s more clam nowadays
id add chongqing and shenzhen
theres a video called Chinas cyberpunk futuristic cities, looking at that the only thing thats missing are flying vehicles and holograms really
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
You guys should take a look at chongqing, an amazing city in china unkown to most people, i personally think that it is even more cyberpunk than HK itself, really recommend to take a look at the city skyline and its lifestyle. Good video man.
Am I the only one who likes cyberpunk-ish city than europe's historical structures?
I think youre with many others lol, honestly i like steampunk and cyberounk at the same time xD
Spot on video, Hong Kong sends you deep into the past and far into the future, such an invigorating and inspiring place.
+_ _ thanks! Definitely, Hong Kong is something unique and no doubt is worth a visit :)
Hong Kong has its own problems as well - it has problems of subdivided flats and even "cage homes", which inspired the cage houses in Blade Runner 2049.
I've said many times that the classic photo of the HK skyline at night *looks just like Neo-Tokyo in Akira*
I came here from an HK forum. I find that you described our situation quite accurately and I appreciate that. The video quality, from bgm to editing is also quite good. Keep up the good work.
As William Gibson once said, Tokyo is pure Cyberpunk >_-
why do you only have 183 views? you deserve at least 100 thousand views, well I liked and shared. good job and good luck dude.
+ziad messi thanks man, that means a lot :) I really hope to get to 100k one day , but until then just have to keep working. Thanks for watching.
hey come back! it's 38k now
62k
This a great breakdown, for some reason I started dreaming of the areas I'd lived in around the globe as these super exaggerated cyberpunk metropolises and city scapes. I'm definitely going to have to make Hong Kong one of my top spots to visit before I die.
Have no bloody clue why I love the setting of an Asian Cyberpunk city (Just like HK)
Cause in a past life, you were an AI
As a Hongkong citizen, I agree with this video very much! Also you are very under rated 🥺
I recommending this to everyone I know. This was so well put together
yep it's good - I think you should give people a chance ^^ I make music. I work really really hard at it and am passionate about trying something new, I have talent people say so I am trying my best. :) please take a look if you like synth and cyberpunk
Finally visited HK last week! Had to rewatch this vid 👍
Wow, from movies to history and politics, everything is on point. Great content mate!
You should do a 2022 update. It would be cool to talk about the similarities between what cyberpunk authors thought the future would look like and how the world looks like now and beyond.
HongKong is just perfect for cyperpunk, the beauty from the outside and the ugliness in the inside, rude people, dirty streets, cramped houses, night markets, street racing at night, night clubs, illegal gambling, sky high rated violence, riot police on the streets sometimes with helmets you see in movies, a police state city in a totalitarianism country, and yea tall bright buildings, yes trust me I am a Hong Konger too. Hope more people in the world know about this small small city.
Honestly though, do you like it? Personally I think of it as a trill. I’d love to visit HK tbh.
@lucianocastillo694 being a hker is like being a girl having a handsome yet abusive fuckup boyfriend.
I don’t care about the cyberpunk city, I just want a lightsaber umbrella.
glow in the dark vibrator is the closest I got for ya
Increasingly it is also a cultural crossroads. West and East meeting and creating a future that is constantly in tension with itself. That is very inherent to Cyberpunk.
This video is amazing! I lived in HK so long but i never thought of that!!!!
You know more about my city than me and most people here do lol. Great video.
+Michael Choi thanks man :)
My most favourite city, ever. Ga Yau 🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰
I agree with ziad, this is a fantastic video. Really deserves more attention.
Cyberpunk it’s not fiction it’s the near future and Hong Kong its already there
Edit : mega cities are being built everywhere, conscious AI and robots are on the way . Augmentations as well . Totalitarian governments and mega corporations checked . Mutations from radiation of an atom bomb ? Hiroshima Nagasaki? 🤔
Radiation doesn't give you the cool sci fi mutations, just cancer. Mega corporations (using the cyberpunk definition), well it would be a stretch to apply that moniker to any modern corporations. Mega cities? Nah. Nothing which exists today comes close to a megacity. The only thing which came close in terms of density was the kowloon walled city, but that was just one block and got demolished in the 90s. Nothing today comes close in terms of density in the scale of a city. Conscious ai... uh, no. We are no where near even remotely understanding what consciousness even is never mind recreating it. I will give you the augmentations part, but only because of how good prosthetic limbs are nowadays. We aren't close to actually fucking with the brain and putting computers in it yet and won't be for some time.
Glitch_FACE funny thing is that we have the tech tho lol
I live in hong kong
breathtaking
bruv this is a spot on video. you deserve way more views and subscribers!
Proud to be a HKer
Thank you very much for that thorough explanation! I was deciding between Hong Kong and Tokyo as inspiration for my new Cities: Skylines series. I think I’ll just use both cities as inspiration!
A brilliant video that really goes to the core of the connection between that cyberpunk (both the genre and the aesthetic) and that great city.
One thing I find particularly interesting is how the cyberpunk aesthetic has evolved and become codified. There are undoubtedly cultural markers in cinema that have helped solidify what cyberpunk looks like - themselves influenced by HK - but I think there have also been influences from other fields. In particular, I feel but cannot prove that some of the visual tropes we associated with the genre have their roots in mid-90s computer graphics. The black/cyan/magenta colour palette that we see so often in synthwave cover art is an obvious example. As well, certain graphics programming tricks like palette cycling have probably contributed to the modern cyberpunk aesthetic. More recently, even Unicode technology probably played a role.
Once again, this was a brilliant video. Please keep making more!
Is that not more 80's than 90's?
Nice video, wish to see you making a documentary about the situation in Hong Kong now
This is so well articulated
Beautiful video, I loved it.
I think that another large aspect of cyberpunk is the combining of metropolitan areas into one large city, or a megalopolis. This in mind, I think the over 120 kilometer urban sprawl of Tokyo would also make a good case for cyberpunk, not to mention the way the city looks when you are in it as well, it isn't quite the level of crazy that HK is, because it is kept cleaner, however I think that only applies to the streets, as I have seen some gnarly mishmashes of signage in commercial and mixed use areas.
Batman beyond should be filmed in Hong Kong it's perfect!
My favorite city ever to visit when I lived in Shenzhen.
even my parent watch hong kong family drama, detective, crime. Yet I am half hong konger who only dedicate want the sweet sugar cane juice and roast pork.
Really well-made video. You deserve a lot more views. Shared. Cheers
+Gino Arcari thanks! Really appreciated :)
This was such an in depth video on an intriguing topic, thank you!
Excellent video. Hong Kong is fascinating, as is cyberpunk.
Subbed. Very eloquent. Well done.
Excellent work! I thoroughly enjoyed this! Well researched! Good analysis!
You did a really great job with this video.
Well made video, good job!
PhD level of analysis and communication
Sooo im in cyberpunk.........
I live in hong kong
Sup fellow HKer
4:56 - Lawmoner man!
i feel so good cause i love cyberpunk and i live here in the land of the 852 (hk)
really insightful analysis! thank you
man you need to see shanghai. its the mostest cyberpunk city in the world imo
And now we have water pipe house stacked together under the bridge for people... cyberpunk to the max yo
But honestly great video, I didn't realize I live in a cyberpunk city before watching this.
At 0:34 it's not HK but Seoul most probably. The writing is Hangul not Hanzi. Just to let you know
You're right got that wrong actually. Thanks though hahah :)
Annyongaseyooo!
@@jaqofthoughts.4263 and 0:30 is not HK but Shenzhen. 华强 is a location in Shenzhen.
have to say though some things u see here would also fit for China town in Thailand (gives up the same vibes etc esp. at night)
& maybe smaller areas in bangkok too. although HK is still better then any other asian city for cyberpunk.
There are more areas in the world for sure that also resemble Cyberpunk. Taiwan, Macau and Tokyo are also good exemples and they were also inspiratons for the setting of Blade Runner. I focused more on Hong Kong because politically its really similar. Thanks :)
this is amazing 💕😭 thank you
Hongkong is awesome
This is one of the most underrated videos I’ve ever seen. Great work
China is the Arasaka of HK
0:33 is korean site not s slum LOL
was gonna say lol that's not even HK
Excellent analysis
The city seems so horribly overwhelming; like, I could easily imagine myself having a legit panic attack just trying to get a fresh breath in the middle of that sprawl - and panic attax aren't something I regularly have.
Still, I'd love to visit Hong Kong, find a dark & seedy little alley nook, insert a shiny mini-disc into my laptop and do a little hacking. With lasers too .
Watch New york in heavy rain binaural videos, and you see that this is the city closest to real Cyberpunk.
Too bad you didn't mention Kowloon walled city. It has been inspiration for many authors of dystopia fiction and it has that aesthetic feeling when it comes to cyberpunk setting.
you need these two environment
1) always night time
2) always raining
Fight for freedom, stand with HK!!
Its October the 5th 2019 as I write this. I'd say cyberpunk has gone out the window and it is full blown AKIRA
I gotta visit Hong Kong, wow.
I suggest you guys go to Central, Wanchai and Sham Shui Po.
Love that Bruce Lee statue
if it weren't for the language barrier, i would like to live in hong kong or at least visit.
Most people can speak and understand English just fine in HK :P
@@catherinelee1206 eh, are you sure about that?
@@bostonianful Well, everyone in HK has English lessons ever since they begin going to school. At the very least, people would know basic English.
@@catherinelee1206 wow, now thats awesome. i'd really like to visit someday, though with all the massive protests happening there right now, i guess ill visit at a later date.
@@bostonianful Yeah, definitely not a good time to go to HK at the moment. XD
This is very interesting in more ways than one.
I want to visit hk so bad luckily its only a 4 hr flight from where im from
0:32 that's korea
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Although I agree for the most part, a lot of the "old" in your video simply doesn't exist anymore in this day and age, the fishing villages are in the country side so obviously won't be as "modern", there are barely any rickshaws in HK the only ones left are for tourists because it's a thing of the past, but these are minor details
From HongKong w/Love
In my opinion, Rio de Janeiro is the most cyberpunk City ever
Why?
Picture from 0:32 is Seoul!
Very well made video
Yeah that's cool n all but are there blokes that are climbing and jumping off buildings to buildings?
I would like a follow up of this! Especially with the HK protest recently!
Lovely jubbly, considered me subscribed!
+kristopherm3 thanks for the sub :)
Dude, don't dream...
search in YT: Cyberpunk 2077 Brazil edition.
shanghai too
Personally id like to see Dubai
"PUSH" 2009
I wish the US had a cyberpunk city
Max L.A on the way
The cyberpunk aesthetic is great but not what's come with it don't forget
YES
Tokyo?
from Hong Kong
Yo, this is dope.
I'm the 600th like. Nice even number
Check out Kowloon Walled City
I disagree that HK should be a perfect setting for cyberpunk, at least at the moment, maybe back in the 80's & 90's. Because a lot of signs are being removed nowadays due to light pollution and a lot representations that should be regarded to a cyberpunk setting such as stalls/food stalls are all removed, at least from what I can see. So imo I think many other cities in other countries out there such as Tokyo or Seoul should be the best examples as of now.
Minus the killer cyborgs and flying cars.
Well done
+Joy-Toilet thanks :)
what about 🇯🇵?
Fools who have fallen from prosperity - destroying their city will also be in this game?
0:33 idk if you did this on purpose but this is korea not hong kong 😅
The slide you showed for a dark slum style was Korea, not Hong Kong.