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This is a pretty fundamental idea in traditional Japanese design of ... everything. Dance, calligraphy, martial arts, learning, home decorating, plates of food,
by ci5er 7y ago
This is a pretty fundamental idea in traditional Japanese design of ... everything. Dance, calligraphy, martial arts, learning, home decorating, plates of food, pregnant pauses in poetry or drama, sometimes even in manufacturing processes.
And yet they still hound you with those 2am meetings (from wherever I am) with corporate and (still) faxed documents back and forth. Those folks still love their hand-written faxes. (I love so much about working with them, my friends, that I guess I can accommodate this quirk).
- DonHopkins 7y agoIn Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud writes about gutters, the space between frames of comics / graphics novels. https://comicbookglossary.wordpress.com/gutter/ https://comicbookglossary.wordpress.com/gutter/ https://understandingcomics177.wordpress.com/about/1-2/2-2/ https://understandingcomics177.wordpress.com/about/1-2/2-2/ https://thesequentialpress.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/transitions/ https://thesequentialpress.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/transiti... https://seths.blog/2010/01/in-between-frames/ https://seths.blog/2010/01/in-between-frames/
- vanderZwan 7y agoHe also mentions how Japan developed a very different relation to space and time in their visual language of comics. Notably there is the technique where certain scenes do not have frame borders on the side of the edges, as if to imply that the scene is unbound and extending forever beyond the paper, just outside our view. This is not unusual in Western comics now too, but it originated from Japanese manga. Given the concept of "Ma" it makes a lot more sense now that this technique was first developed in Japan.