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Are you a fellow Saffa? We need more saffa YTers dissecting the arts and history, I'm in the process of throwing my hat into the ring as well.

i've heard of him

great video but I’m pretty sure it’s “In Santa Barbara, Hannah cried, ‘I miss those freezing beaches’. “ and not “Amidst those freezing beaches”

May The Legend Rest Peacefully Hes In The Afterlife Painting a New Experience 🌹🌹🌹

Wow amazing break down

I love Stanley Donwood

"...you've never heard of"-bit of a stretch, no?

Do i hear a faint danish accent? Or is it something else?

Is there a connection between the end of real friends and the start of wolves?

Good video, cant help but be super distracted by that odd cut into a montage mid-sentence...

Thank you.

あまり得意げに、ペラペラと語ってほしくないな。

Beautiful video! Recently started gettin interested in shin-hanga and this video is a great introduction on Kawase's style and influence! If you don't mind me asking, what's the song used in the background? Added such a nice atmosphere

Famous places: Thumbnail, 3:18: Miyajima, Itsukushima, Hiroshima prefecture 0:30 Himeji castle, Himeji, Hyogo prefecture 1:10, 3:10 Zojoji temple, Tokyo 1:14 The Washington Monument, with Japanese cherry trees. (1935) 3:29 Enoshima from Kamakura

That felt longer than 4 minutes (in a good way)

Golden!

Why do people say that Ken killed the waiter? The waiter steered the car off the road. Ken had nothing to do with the car going off the road. It would have been better for the two if they hit the deer instead. It also wasn’t Ken’s fault that he didn’t have the lung capacity to free the waiter from the underwater car.

I love Japan & Japanese art and culture, Ukiiyo-e art, the Arts & Crafts movement, etc. Also love this period in history, arts, architecture, decor, happenings, music and thought very much. This art is deeply favorite for me!! I got to briefly meet one of my modern favorites, Yoshiko Yamamoto. This will be one of my favorite videos of all time! Thank you!

1:22 What does "realistic" even mean in this context?

7th edition is still my favorite set to this day. It's not only because I started with 7th, it is just legitimately still one of the best sets for both art and flavor text. The story is simple, sure, but there can be beauty in simplicity.

These are gorgeous. I see a lot of similarities between Kawase and Maxfield Parrish in the use of light in early morning and twilight, and the tone palette. Don't know who influenced who, though (or even if they did, though it seems very likely each was aware of the other's work). They were contemporaries; perhaps it was mutual. I have some Parrishs and one Kawase; I'll have to get more Kawase now.

Aweh bru.

Definitely my favorite vampire weekend song and one of my favorite songs ever. It stands out to me because it doesn’t feel like a song. Along with the genius lyrics, the instrumentation is very atmospheric and feels like a memory. Especially that bass work. The emotion is really hard to pinpoint. Ezra sounds weary and desensitized until he cracks at that climactic point near the end. The songs like nothing else from them or anyone else.

Really interesting, now for the lyrics i dont understand ye with his laptop story at the end of the song

You can see he may have been familiar with the work of Maxfield Parrish.

What in the world happened those last 2 minutes of the video my dude??

They resemble some studio Ghibli shots

5 minutes and 18 seconds lost...

This is why the finale upsets me cause all this buildup is wasted

Have always loved Kawase's work. Sad more don't know of him. What is the music for the video? It's lovely.

Exactly! And I don't know how in the world it isn't mentioned more often. I just find about him because and account shared a picture and my mind just scream at me "go, go to YT to know more about this wonderful painter!NOW!". Anyways, thanks for the soothing presentation ^ ^

thanx for this.

You nailed everything other than: the release format set the precedent for bandcamp, not ask the other streaming services. Spoti and the like are really based on Napster which is what RH were trying to circumvent.❤

great video

Great video

I absolutely agree with IR being one of Stanley Donwood's best album covers. If not for that, I probably wouldn't be making the art that I do to this day. I want to grab, at the very least, the ideas behind the art.

I agree - at least they tried something new in this core set. There's nothing wrong with Trained Orgg art thought.

The thorn elemental alone is amazing, and came in foil in the starter set which was how I got my start with magic, giving me a special nostalgia not only for this set, but any core set that focuses on simpler cards and evergreen mechanics rather than set complexities and themes.

7th edition was the first MTG set I ever played. Super nostalgic for me :)

The option to get the cards in black border foil was a great way to appease those who had disdain for the white borders. And a huge financial boon 20 years later for those who collected the foils too.

7th has my favorite artwork in MTG Wind Drake Always loved the snakey drake.

I remember buying this set when it was first released and just HATING the art. But now decades later, as an adult when I look back on it....I STILL hate the art. Sorry, sometimes things are just bad, no need for critical "reevaluation."

This got me thinking about core sets. I started playing in Revised and i pucked up core sets but later stopped buying them much. I saw them as the set for the new player, where you went for the basics and then added to it with specific sets. The core set was all reprints, often kinda junk reprints like giant spider or scathe zombies. Now we have a reprint set of commander cards. Commander Masters should not be a super expensive set to milk the players, it should be the core set of commander. You get the staple cards everyone needs as a baseline for play and then you go to specific sets for special flavor to spice up a deck with a certain mechanic or theme.

It has white males as something other than villains so it's by far better than last ten years at least. And no Gandalf the Black or Aragorn from the hood.

7e seemed to be marketed to kids with cartoonier artwork. This is coming from someone who was a kid at the time with a bunch of 6e cards!

7th edition foils are my favorite way to flex when building a deck. They're rare but also a conversation starter for people who aren't aware how hard to find foil rares are from that set

Some of the art in this set are gems There is some ugly arts but there’s ugly arts in all sets

I like Mahamoti Djinn, Venerable Monk, and Trained Orgg's arts a lot actually.

I'm a 7th Edition hater in general but I can't deny that Wrath of God is stunning. A lot of those pieces are classics and get reprinted even today, so it certainly wasn't a total bust. Thanks for this video!

the diamond cycle in 7th edition is beautiful