I really like the layout and style of the site. I never had a mac growing up so its not a nostalgia thing, I just appreciate the compactness with contrast
The art is also very good. Its hard to get that level of "colour" with limited resolution
Curious about the "no derivatives" license. Surely anything derivative would be of the original now public domain art and not this. I do not see how this could as a practical matter be enforced. IANAL though.
If I take something in the public domain and make a derivative work, the original remains in the public domain, and I retain ownership of whatever additions or modifications I created. So I can attach whatever conditions I want to the copying of those additions.
For instance, Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" was protected by copyright when it was released, even though it was based on a centuries-old fairy tale that was in the public domain.
Love the birds in this one, especially the way it mirrors the wave crest fingers. Hokusai seems to have lunch ved these birds. They figure in his caged Bird pieces.
That "Big Wave" variation with birds flying over the waves is strikingly beautiful. So dynamic and raw compared to the famous one. And how poetic the shapes of birds rhyme with the shape of waves. I'm gonna have to set aside some time to appreciate Hokusai's works again. Lovely.
This is taught in graphic design, how people typically scan information from left to right and top to bottom, in cultures where the written language flows in that direction. However, a counter argument could be made that people perceive paintings differently from the way they read written text. There have been studies about how the Japanese perceive images and sounds with the same area of the brain that processes language, in contrast to other cultures where they're processed separately. [citaion needed]
... specifically, Japanese is traditionally written top to bottom, then right to left. (In contrast, English is written left to right, then top to bottom.)
So, armed with that knowledge, are you going to rotate it as well?
If you are talking about page order or panel order (in something like manga), those go right to left. More specifically, manga panels follow the usual western comic book panel order, except with left and right flipped.
However, when it comes to the actual text (regardless of the medium), it is always written either top to bottom or left to right. There is no right to left text writing in japanese. This isn't arabic, where text is indeed written right to left.
Japanese characters are actually written left to right, but sometimes the page order is right to left. Writing that you might find on a website, e-mails, and scientific writing is typically actually written left to right. While these kinds of texts may have pages that are ordered from right to left, the text on the pages is typically written from left to right. It is typically only when text is written vertically (yokogaki) that it is written in columns going from right to left, and in that case, the characters are read top to bottom.
When written horizontally it is now left to right but earlier you would see horizontal right to left. But vertical was preferred especially in the past.
You can see horizontal train stop signs written right to left in “In This Corner of the World” anime. Today all signage seems to be left to right.
In the time this art was made, top to bottom, right to left was the standard. It's pretty apparent when looking at any document from the Edo era. It's all top to bottom, right to left. Remnants of it are also clear in temples where the signs above doorways are written right to left, not even top to bottom. Plus every Japanese novel and manga today is still written top to bottom right to left.
You are right, but it can be argued that during the time the painting was made, vertical writing was the predominant form, and I don't know whether horizontal writing was a thing at the time in Japan...
That said, as I implied in my other reply, the whole idea is a bit silly...
Japanese is currently read and written from left to right. However, until about 80 years ago (before World War II), it was read and written from right to left—though this applied only to horizontal writing. Vertical writing is read from right to left, and this convention continues today; for example, Japanese comics (manga) are still read from right to left.
Sorry for the "actually", but Hentai didn't exist yet as a genre. It was "shunga", that is, erotic "ukiyo-e", a popular style at that time.
Popular shunga works by Hokusai are "Two lovers" or the wrongly translated "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" (the original Japanese title is "female diver and octopus")
The art is also very good. Its hard to get that level of "colour" with limited resolution
Has search become really this bad !
Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901702
https://archive.org/details/hokusaiimayoyhi00kats/page/5/mod...
https://archive.org/details/imayoykushikisev1kats/page/19/mo...
Are you sure you're remembering right?
Here's archive's list of Hokusai books:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Katsushika%2C+...
https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7660768/image-art-vintage-pub...
If I take something in the public domain and make a derivative work, the original remains in the public domain, and I retain ownership of whatever additions or modifications I created. So I can attach whatever conditions I want to the copying of those additions.
For instance, Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" was protected by copyright when it was released, even though it was based on a centuries-old fairy tale that was in the public domain.
> MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today - https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402
This masterpiece by an unknown artist might be the best work of hi-res pixel art I have ever seen: https://blog.decryption.net.au/images/macpaint/lesson3d.png
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866283
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It's a pity this blog was so short lived, I can only see 7 entries and only 2 Hokusai prints. Oh well, my own blogs usually don't fare much better.
the reason is, japanese is read from right to left.
once you invert it you can appreciate it better
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa_-...
His "Big Wave" has that right left position
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Th...
Love the birds in this one, especially the way it mirrors the wave crest fingers. Hokusai seems to have lunch ved these birds. They figure in his caged Bird pieces.
- Art Institute of Chicago (https://www.artic.edu/articles/1139/10-things-to-know-about-...)
- Daily Art Magazine (https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/great-wave-hokusai/#:~:text...)
- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa#Re...)
So, armed with that knowledge, are you going to rotate it as well?
However, when it comes to the actual text (regardless of the medium), it is always written either top to bottom or left to right. There is no right to left text writing in japanese. This isn't arabic, where text is indeed written right to left.
Also, when text was horizontal, it was frequently written right to left until the mid-1940s.[1]
[1] https://www.mutantfrog.com/2009/08/08/the-history-of-japanes...
Sources: [1] https://www.lingocommand.com/japanese/writing-systems-explai... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writin... [3] I studied Japanese in college lol
You can see horizontal train stop signs written right to left in “In This Corner of the World” anime. Today all signage seems to be left to right.
[edit] The history section in Wikipedia explains that this was a postwar script reform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system
That said, as I implied in my other reply, the whole idea is a bit silly...
Popular shunga works by Hokusai are "Two lovers" or the wrongly translated "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" (the original Japanese title is "female diver and octopus")