Comments on: Ash Wednesday http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2008/02/06/ash-wednesday/ Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn telling tales of Tale of Tales Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:15:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: axcho http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2008/02/06/ash-wednesday/#comment-15709 axcho Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:32:03 +0000 http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2008/02/06/ash-wednesday/#comment-15709 I've been thinking about natural cycles as well lately, particularly seasons and food. Ash Wednesday sounds like a useful ritual. I find the contact between the dead ash and the living skin very evocative, similarly to how I thought about skin meeting skin and skin meeting steel after watching the movie Curse of the Golden Flower. I wonder if a game could be used to bring this same awareness to a different audience? This idea of materials meeting each other might be useful, though it might not. There's really a lot to work with here, in natural cycles, seasons, food, energy, growth, mortality... Sounds good to me. :) I’ve been thinking about natural cycles as well lately, particularly seasons and food. Ash Wednesday sounds like a useful ritual. I find the contact between the dead ash and the living skin very evocative, similarly to how I thought about skin meeting skin and skin meeting steel after watching the movie Curse of the Golden Flower.

I wonder if a game could be used to bring this same awareness to a different audience? This idea of materials meeting each other might be useful, though it might not. There’s really a lot to work with here, in natural cycles, seasons, food, energy, growth, mortality… Sounds good to me. :)

]]> By: Reveling John http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2008/02/06/ash-wednesday/#comment-15582 Reveling John Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:42:16 +0000 http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2008/02/06/ash-wednesday/#comment-15582 How will we preserve our reverence for the periods of nature as we becoming increasingly removed not only from natural cycles, but from natural biology? I find the trans-humanist trends that are emerging to be both exciting and also quite sad because of the seeming lack of understanding for the humility that mortality asks of us. When we become a world of deathless personalities, sustained by the storage and computational capability of nano-bots and synthetic neurons, who will remember what it was like to fear, prepare for and endure the realities of death? Or how amazing the feat of our existence was in the face of such reality? How will we preserve our reverence for the periods of nature as we becoming increasingly removed not only from natural cycles, but from natural biology? I find the trans-humanist trends that are emerging to be both exciting and also quite sad because of the seeming lack of understanding for the humility that mortality asks of us. When we become a world of deathless personalities, sustained by the storage and computational capability of nano-bots and synthetic neurons, who will remember what it was like to fear, prepare for and endure the realities of death? Or how amazing the feat of our existence was in the face of such reality?

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