Darkness is The Richest Source of Beauty
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"Darkness is the richest source of beauty."
I love that quote.
So did Dart Vader
As a man of mixed heritage, this resonates with me.
@@Seven-of-Nine bullseye
Bright colors- not so rich in beauty. Am I right?
@@joshua_kriegerthey ain’t mean the skin colour bro 💀
My first memory and favorite view is laying under a tree looking up through the leaves.
Oh, I thought it was Deez
@@hugon6717 I gave you a like, not for the quality of your comment, but for the quality of your Bass.EXE profile pic lol
@@michaelhenderson6786 oh thanks haha. Gotta love Battle Network.
My first portrait and one of my favorite to this day is a portrait of my ex laying on the grass under such light
I’ve always loved the mosaic like shadows leaves make on my face while i lay under a tree on a cozy afternoon, or the intense contrast between the golden sunlight and the otherworldly forms that light casts on the room im in at the perfect time. Im glad there’s an actual concept and appreciation of this side of aesthetics
I am a westerner that has light sensitivity issues, nothing too bad but it does drive to notice how bright everything is in the west and how much I prefer warmer and shadowy settings😊
I just added “in praise of shadows” to me reading list, I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy
You need to chase a neon rainbow in a dark honky Tonk. What western light patterns are you familiar with, just curious?
I am much the same way.
Hmm you have light sensitivity, are you Rh Negative by any chance?
I have light sensitivity too! Heat too, so I chase the shade 😂
Is there a disfunction between the rods and the cones in your eye?
This short led me to purchasing Tanizaki’s book; your elegant explanation was truly inspiring, and the idea itself is so profoundly beautiful.
Do you happen to have a podcast because your voice is very relaxing and everything you explain is extremely interesting and renovating, I'd love to have you in a podcast while i work 😅
Maybe some day! 😆
@@DamiLeeArchplease do🎉🎉
Imagine "DamiLee ASMR" 😊
@@DamiLeeArch YOU ARE SOO BEAUTIFUL 😍❤️
I agree. She explains everything in a different kind of way that keeps it interesting, while also speaking articulately.
Anyone who knows western art knows that there is a huge appreciation of light and shadow through Chiaroscuro
Or any really good comic inker.
In Golden Age of Hollywood, Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons) Film noir (The Big Sleep) and even Hitchcock’s films add this shadowy elements to even frames.
i LOVE this type of art...it tends to be soo soothing
❤❤ in my culture it called Fakapo'uli,,,darkness in our ngatu tapa cloth traditional design there is a black circle ⚫ to remind us of our connections to the beauty of darkness!ngatu-uli,,,
This is so cool!! Thanks for sharing
Are you Tongan? Always wondered why the black circles
Hi Salevi yes I am Tongan,,
Komorebi ...The aesthetic of transition between light and dark..🌒
Thanks for sharing, does that related to Godrays but specific for trees?
@@AlFirousyes it’s specific for trees
Everything you’re covering is so incredibly interesting and beautifully articulated. ❤Thank you
I love Japanese architecture
A great western philosopher once said: Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The shadows betray you, because they belong to me!
I think thats from Batman not a "Great western philosopher"..........
woosh...
@giftbox-e Sorry my friend, that's Bane who said that.
I heard where one of the batman animated shows would do all their drawings on dark paper, rather than white. So you had to go out of your way to illuminate something.
👏BRILLIANT 👏
Always love learning about stuff like this
Thanks!😘
What a wonderful way to see something most fear or try to erase.
That is an absolutely beautiful way to think of light and shadow.
Thank you.
I remember how they used komorebi in Legend of Zelda Link to the Past in The Lost Woods and it worked to give it an ethereal look
I remember that too. I will say this. What I like about the aesthetics of this isn’t about some nonsense of East vs West concepts or any of that. But rather it’s a quality used that gives a realistic sense shown in media not too often while giving it like you said an ethereal look. So I personally praise its realistic touch.
Thank you for teaching me that word 🙏🏻 I always looked at that kind of light and was surprised we have so many terms like golden hour, dawn, dusk, twilight, but nothing for that specific dappled light. Other culture picked up the slack tho 😃
Same feeling ❤❤
This is pretty amazing. Darkness and light plays equal parts to your everyday well being.
This is one of the most wholesome things I heard in a long time, it makes my heart happy. I’m gonna check out the rest of the channel now
Alright i'm addicted to your explanations videos, that channel is an endless source of quality content
Hello Dami.
In the light of escape we see the intricacies of the shadows.
This darkness. This depth of awakening. Of exploration. These wet spaces of hugs and kisses.
Of embrace. The sensations of feeling. Of reciprocity.
These strong roots.
Powering through. Drilling away. Pushing. Pushing. Pushing.
Ever so harder.
That spot. That spot of connection.
Where the waters flow. Cascading. Downwards. Upwards.
To attsin this nourishment. Through these spaces.
Is the dark rich beauty.
55 words over haiku..
Or 4 words short of 4 haiku
Everything you post is mind expanding. I like it.
This was so great, thank you!
Fascinating. I noticed this fear of darkness espevially in contemporary churches. Always light and no niches where to sit in half shade.
*especially
My church is in a theatere and the balcony is shrouded in darkness. I would say not all contemporary church interiors are shown or conducted the same way.
Gothic churches were like being in a forest
Perhaps my favorite clip of all of your quality content. Authenticity resonates. A pleasure to view, thanks.
Darkness is like a warm blanket.
It's like before people are born as babies... light, muffled sound and the comfort of iccasionally being alone with our own thoughts.
Hey another introvert like me 😊
There is beauty in darkness, especially when I forgot to pay the electricity bill.
I use the minimum of light to light my home in the evening, even using a laptop usb light, connected to a charger to light my kitchen & sitting area, it's more than adequate.
My grandma’s house (which then passed to my dad, who rented it out to my sister and then my brothers) had vertical blinds with a rose bush outside the window, and the shadow cast by the setting sun on the wall looked like a bamboo grove.
Since I was a kid, I've found beauty in the interplay between shadow and light. Although dominant/overwhelming darkness did and still does scare me.
I think it's easy for one artist to say "ah, we japanese do it differently than you westerners," and I would be critical of this, particularly for how much Japan borrowed from the west during its rapid industrialization period, and how much they struggled to create their new national identity afterwards, often manufacturing it from things that had nothing to do with "japanese-ness."
I think these are great examples of the use of contrast, but let's not generalize; westerners and japanese artists do not have a radically different way of seeing light, and that seems like a fallacy that creates separation and misunderstanding between the two cultures.
*You can tell I'm in a degree for Japanese studies, right? 😂
This should be the top comment
No I can't
Especially when in film a lot of techniques, aesthetics, and moods that pair themes with shadows often originated from Hollywood. You've got Golden Age directors like Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcok. You've got classic movies like The Godfather which _completely_ changed how lighting was done in movies particularly when it came to using shadow to push a story, theme, or a character arc. Then The Empire Strikes Back evolved how lighting the dark and ominous characters and Empire were done, particularly when it came to lighting Darth Vader himself and working with the dark reflective suit.
If you think this video is about "we do it different than you westerners " then you need to rewatch the video toll you understand the content or message. Just because japan industrialized it doesn't mean they adopted every aspect of western culture . Japan has its own history art culture traditions architecture so it is very arrogant and foolish of one to assume industrialization = westernization of every aspect of society . Japanese art is radically different from western art and it has a history if thousand of years.
After reading your comment nobody will believe you r a student of japanese studies.
@@dhimankalita1690 it's sad to see someone miss your point and condescendingly point finger and say "you missed my point," like we are not on the same side. I think I have made the exact point you raised elsewhere, about industrialization not equaling westernization one to one, but I was not raising that proposition now. I am not criticizing the rich art disciplines of Japan either, I am expressing dismay at the way this creator takes a 1933 work, as influential as it was, without problematizing its nationalistic connotations. This period of Japan was marked by ruthless colonial conquest, and the nationalism inscribed in this work's rhetoric is analogous to Schenkerian analysis. It is a beautiful way to codify a rich artistic practice (on one the aesthetic traditions of Japan, on the other German Baroque musical compositions), but it's overtly nationalistic intent must be problematized in today's (post-)colonial world.
This is not an argument about westernization, this is an argument about the problematicity of pre-WWII nationalism, and the fact that this creator framed some of these arguments so matter-of-factly. Though the context might imply that this was still paraphrasing the content of "In Praise of Shadows" (because it was, the "Japanese-ness" is proudly claimed on the essay itself), the way this was clipped and shipped as a youtube short frames the information problematically.
This is not me being a Westerner who denigrates the artistic practices of a non-western population, this is me calling out the colonialist undertones of the work being cited.
Love this
Gosh she is so beautiful....
Everything correctly stated about "Komorebi" 木漏れ日 and Japanese aesthetics. This train named "Komorebi" with a forest design goes right past my home in Kyoto. ua-cam.com/video/OfIiu5Leh-4/v-deo.html. It goes through a tunne maple trees that's illuminated in autumn.
the last quote is so beautiful
That is awesome.
Interesting info, thank you for making this short!
Wtf why is she so freaking beautiful
Sir, this is a Wendys
❤ I adore this. Thank you, love.
I do landscaping photography as a hobby. The most amazingly beautiful pictures I've taken had the contrast of shadows, which made them look surreal. So, now when walking in nature and getting inspired by my next shot, I follow the shadows as much as the light. ☯️
I love the shadows ❤️
This is probably most noticeable in film & television.
I’m from the UK where it’s grey & dreary, & this is often reflected in our TV shows, it’s unrefined, imperfect, normal, & it shows the grittiness of living in the UK, but US adaptions of our shows tend to always be shot at Golden Hour, when everything is brightest, looks the best & they usually switch tones from serious to lighthearted or from funny to ridiculous.
A good example of this is the contrast between the UK & US versions of the show “The Inbetweeners”.
I am going to listen to this book now. Great content!
I’ve learned something new. Thanks for the info.
I love this video
In my opinion Japanese culture together with different places which looks really like a something otherworldly and ethereal that's all really like to me particularly with these different feels and emotions which I can getting when I look at these different places and all objects which location there, I love to Japan 🇯🇵❤️.
This. Was. Beautiful. I would love to learn more about this!
love it.
Oh noo, In Praise of Shadows💀💀
Just beautiful
This is so beautiful 😭
Which is why I always get my best work done after the sun goes down 😂
I like to keep my curtains closed in my living room but I made it so they are light filtering curtains rather than blackout to make the space livable. A lot of people think the space is dark but I'm not a fan of direct light, I find it too bright and since I'm facing so many other apartments it makes sense for privacy to have it this way.
I'm in love with her. Gosh, she's so smart, I could listen to her talk all day
Thank you for the video
Thank you - this is a wonderfully poetic post
I always wonder why old japanese homes were so dark. Thanks for the lesson. I always wanted to go to Japan hopefully one day i will. Very interisting culture. The balance with nature and woodcrafting ❤
Wow! Please bring in more ❤
Beautiful
Much like the space between music notes, light needs dark.
That's beautiful
thats just about the most beautiful thing I could imagine waking up to❤
I love darkness. Helps give beauty to light.
Absolutely beautiful quote.
Thank you. I enjoy the cultural aspects of your channel as much as the architecture. You make both very interesting. 😁
I love that book
sounds like she uses a lot of strength to talk. love it
I’ve read the book some years ago, really interesting! Even his thoughts about the beauty of wood and satin surfaces.
You and your team’s videos are so good!
I love your videos.
Then I saw her face
And I'm a believer❤
Love this shorts ❤ are therapy for me. 🎉❤
I've stumbled across your videos and they're great and thought provoking. I've subscribed. Thanks and look forward to watching more and learning more. ❤
Thank you. I’ve been amazed by my views of the daylight through these beautiful trees, feeling so loved by nature and God. Thank you for sharing this, because I never heard anyone talk about it before you right now. ❤
Great shadow and light post
Komorebi is the title of a song from the soundtrack of the game Gris. It’s such a beautiful and comforting song which plays during a level of the game that is foresty and whimsical :) 🌱🌳
Another well done video. I really dig this channel.
Yeah. Caravaggio's light 🕯️ focused paintingS 🎨 inspired Rembrandt and so many others - off to the 🐎🐎🐎 races chasing 🌅🌄 light since then
Awesome to learn this
You just mace my day!! ❤ I F LOVE THIS ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Speaking of aesthetics, look at this woman’s face and skin. It’s like she’s made of sunshine.
You have beautiful skin coloring & texture!
Someone close to me once called me “darkness”, which really hurt me. Made me feel so ugly and almost monstrous, in the context of the conversation in which it was said. It’s hard for me to shake those words off and not internalize them when I struggle deeply with mental health as well. I am glad I came across this short. I know I’m not the “darkness” the writer had in mind or the narrator had in mind, but seeing this has helped me feel better about those impactful words spoken to me. I think I will read this book, thank you .
The sun itself in Japan is just brutal. It is blinding near ocean and so bright. So different than Canada.
My approach to photography
So true.
Finally, something with substance.
It’s interesting how well Daoism and Zen Buddhism mixed where the two cultures really understood each other, the Japanese really made it better
Another animation that highlights on the light and shadow is the opening credits of Mushi. Its beautiful because it never focuses. It has this amazing song with it and it looks like looking at light through leaves with your eyes closed
The yin and yang ☯️ of life . Good video . Thanks . 🙏🏼🇦🇺
i love this makeup on you dami!
reminds me of Perfect Days
I love your channel so much. You're the GOAT UA-camr.
Thank you
Black is beautiful indeed.
That’s interesting I really like that
Oh, i've read this book!