Donny's Blog

So what is Samsung, that it can spread over so many different industries? That is, what is the common unifying element? Well, besides the historical, legal and economic development of a corporation, I think it is a philosophy and culture. The idea of Samsung embodied in the name is what unifies all these different people. So, how would I apply that? As an artist involved in multiple mediums, what unifies everything? Well, my name and my ideas. Some of those ideas need to be able to transcend the different mediums, so it has to be a grand vision. Perhaps then at some point, I could hire people and turn into a proper business and they would all be unified under that vision. But the vision would have to be something larger than their own visions and ideals, because otherwise they would not follow and would not be inspired. That's also part of Samsung, the audacity and grandness of it's vision. A vision that is too big for any one person, which them becomes a unifying vision for ...

In a realistic setting, in a movie or comic for instance, fantastic and magical elements (characters, events) provide sharp contrast and often provide humor in weirdness. In a fantastic setting, a dose of the mundane can provide that contrast and humor, because the magical and otherworldly is a given in the universe. I'm watching Takashi Miike's Yakuza apocalypse and that movie is what inspired this insight. You think you have a Scorsese style Yakuza film, then come in these fantastic elements, which are funny at time for their weirdness. Then an example of the opposite, is the scene from the Star Wars the Last Jedi, when a scene of what appears to be a landing aircraft is revealed to be the automated steam pressing uniforms.