Ariddia
06-12-2007, 17:12
OOC: Simply list a few of the major writers and artists from your nation, with a brief description and/or a link to their NSwiki article.
Ariddian Isles
Writers
ABEL MOEAKI (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/abel_moeaki.html) is perhaps Ariddia’s most famous writer. He is the author of Daybreak (translated in French as: La Nuit Sans Lendemain), a novel depicting the tentative, ultimately doomed friendship of two soldiers on opposite sides during a ferocious war. The focus of the novel is on the lives of the soldiers, and of civilians affected by the hostilities; the war itself is perceived as a senseless blur, and Moeaki deliberately refrains from elaborating on who the enemy nations are or why they are fighting. The implication is that the who and why of those who started the war are of no great importance, and should not distract from the horrific realities of the war itself. The novel conveys a sense of helpless anger at the futility of what the protagonists are subjected to.
Daybreak was later adapted into a film, adding the power of visual medium to the deeply moving, shocking and disturbing qualities of the novel. It remains one of the few Ariddian films to have met with significant critical and public acclaim abroad.
Moeaki is a Professor of Literature at Haven University.
BASTIEN FERAILLER (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/bastien_ferailler.html) is a contemporary Ariddian philosopher. He is an advocate of the theory of Determinism, and has defined free will as "an illusion necessary to the functioning of the human mind. Even Determinists behave as if free will were a reality. To embrace the truth on anything more than a purely intellectual level would render all action impossible".
Ferailler has also written to denounce the dangers of "the capitalist deconstruction of the social contract". He has stressed the importance of societal norms in forming what many believe to be "objective truths, absolute morals and unquestioned normality", and urges his readers to "question all norms, reflect upon their origins, subjectivity and bases".
Ferailler teaches philosophy and literature at the University of Rêvane. His most famous works include Refuting the Myth of "Human Nature": An Analysis of Societal, Economic and Cultural Norms in Capitalist and Non-Capitalist Societies, Why We Should Delude Ourselves: The Illusion of Free Will and Religion and Social Cohesiveness.
For more on Ariddian literature, see the NSwiki article on that topic (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/ariddian_literature.html).
Painters
UKENIO MINOWA (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/ukenio_minowa.html) is an Ariddian painter noted for his strikingly detailed rendering of clouds, his paintings so realistic as to be almost photographic.
Of mixed Polynesian and Oriental descent, Minowa immigrated to Ariddia at the age of 27, and now resides permanently in a small town in the immediate suburbs of Cité-Belle. His most famous work, Panorama, is striking in its exquisite detail, and is exhibited along with several other of his paintings in the Museum of Realism in the city of Espérence. Minowa has also, however, dabbled in impressionism.
"I've wanted to paint clouds since I was a child," he once explained. "I've always found them fascinating. As a child, I imagined some mythical being making great efforts of detail to paint them across the sky, and I wanted to do the same in my own limited way."
When not painting, Minowa helps grow vegetables in collectively-worked fields near his home.
DENISE SAO (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/denise_sao.html) is a noted Ariddian painter. She is an Indigenous Ariddian of mixed ethnic and cultural background. Her paintings reflect the challenges of modernity, as well as the intellectually stimulating but sometimes difficult dialogue (or "multilogue", as she calls it) and partial merging between cultures.
Many of her works may be seen at the Museum of National Art in Cité-Belle, Ariddia.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1349/saotimewv8yo3.jpg
Time, a work by Denise Sao.
Singers / musicians
PING (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/ping.html) (real name: Nathalie Greenfields) is a famous pop singer in West Ariddia. She is actively pro-communist, which, in an ultra-capitalist society, has no doubt helped increase her fan base.
She was born in a relatively poor family in the town of Port-Rochebleue, on the southern coast of West Ariddia. She grew up in a desperately poor area of the town, seeing beggars every day as she went to school. At the age of 13, shortly after she had begun work at a factory, she was arrested for stealing food in a supermarket. These experiences left her deeply embittered, but she used them to fuel her creative talent.
It was while singing in the street for money at the age of 17 that she was noticed by a record company, who decided to take a risk and give her a chance to express her talent. Within months, "Ping", as she chose to call herself, was a phenomenal success. Within two years, she was organising free concerts as well as paying ones.
Finding herself suddenly wealthy, Ping moved herself, her family and her friends to better housing, and was able to pay for their healthcare. She also now had the money to attend university, and enrolled in economics courses, paying for the studies of her younger brother and several long-time friends as well.
"I want to find out why our society isn't working, and what can be done about it," she told the media when asked why she was choosing to study economics.
As her popularity increased, she began to openly express support for the Democratic Communist Party, and appealed to those who would not usually vote to cast a vote for communism. "It works up in North-West Ariddia," she explained in an interview. "It's all about social justice and treating people like actual human beings, and we can make it work here too."
CHANG XUE (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/chang_xue.html) (or Chang Sue) (sy:창수에,zh:張雪, dkr:장설) is a contemporary Ariddian musician. Her given name (Xue) is pronounced soo-eh in Syokaji and shoo-eh in Chinese.
Born in the inner suburbs of Sokojito Dosi, Unified Capitalizt States, Chang Xue is the second of three children. She was raised and educated there. She learnt to play the piano at a very young age, soon followed by a variety of other musical instruments. Her proficiency at music, combined with her soft, beautiful singing voice, led her to join music clubs from childhood. She signed her first contract to record solos at the age of 15.
By the time she attended university, Chang Xue had recorded several CDs, mostly solos of herself singing soft-voiced songs of her own writing, and accompanying them herself with piano or guitar. She sang mostly in Syokaji. She studied for two years at the university in Sokojito Dosi, before going to West Ariddia to complete her degree at the University of Aqeyr, in response to a contract offered by an Aqeyr-based records company.
During a holiday in neighbouring socialist Ariddia, Chang was struck by the Ariddians’ way of life, so different to anything she had ever experienced. Expressing her profound admiration for its communitarian ethos and solidarity, Chang later settled there permanently.
Chang sings in Syokaji, Chinese and French. Her songs are mostly gentle, soulful and soothing, and she is noted for her soft, melodious voice. Her best-known song is Lac d’automne.
Chang’s specialty is to put words to the music of the composer she most admires: Tchaikovsky. She has also written and performed some songs to the music of Mozart.
Her songs are mostly peaceful, soothing, beautiful and apolitical, but she has written two passionate, moving songs in English, Eyes Turned Inwards and Crying, which denounce selfishness and people’s lack of caring for the suffering of human beings (and animals) around the planet. These songs were destined for a foreign audience, and were released together as a CD single; they are Chang’s only songs in English. The choice of language was primarily for the lyrics to be widely understood.
Today, Chang Xue is one of Ariddia’s best-known singers and musicians.
For your eyes don't see the pain,
In your heart there is no rain
You have your eyes turned inwards
Your eyes turned inwards
Nothing there to see but you
You can't see what's oh so true
You have your eyes turned inwards
Your eyes turned inwards
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8017/pingchangxueuu4.jpg
Ariddian Isles
Writers
ABEL MOEAKI (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/abel_moeaki.html) is perhaps Ariddia’s most famous writer. He is the author of Daybreak (translated in French as: La Nuit Sans Lendemain), a novel depicting the tentative, ultimately doomed friendship of two soldiers on opposite sides during a ferocious war. The focus of the novel is on the lives of the soldiers, and of civilians affected by the hostilities; the war itself is perceived as a senseless blur, and Moeaki deliberately refrains from elaborating on who the enemy nations are or why they are fighting. The implication is that the who and why of those who started the war are of no great importance, and should not distract from the horrific realities of the war itself. The novel conveys a sense of helpless anger at the futility of what the protagonists are subjected to.
Daybreak was later adapted into a film, adding the power of visual medium to the deeply moving, shocking and disturbing qualities of the novel. It remains one of the few Ariddian films to have met with significant critical and public acclaim abroad.
Moeaki is a Professor of Literature at Haven University.
BASTIEN FERAILLER (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/bastien_ferailler.html) is a contemporary Ariddian philosopher. He is an advocate of the theory of Determinism, and has defined free will as "an illusion necessary to the functioning of the human mind. Even Determinists behave as if free will were a reality. To embrace the truth on anything more than a purely intellectual level would render all action impossible".
Ferailler has also written to denounce the dangers of "the capitalist deconstruction of the social contract". He has stressed the importance of societal norms in forming what many believe to be "objective truths, absolute morals and unquestioned normality", and urges his readers to "question all norms, reflect upon their origins, subjectivity and bases".
Ferailler teaches philosophy and literature at the University of Rêvane. His most famous works include Refuting the Myth of "Human Nature": An Analysis of Societal, Economic and Cultural Norms in Capitalist and Non-Capitalist Societies, Why We Should Delude Ourselves: The Illusion of Free Will and Religion and Social Cohesiveness.
For more on Ariddian literature, see the NSwiki article on that topic (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/ariddian_literature.html).
Painters
UKENIO MINOWA (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/ukenio_minowa.html) is an Ariddian painter noted for his strikingly detailed rendering of clouds, his paintings so realistic as to be almost photographic.
Of mixed Polynesian and Oriental descent, Minowa immigrated to Ariddia at the age of 27, and now resides permanently in a small town in the immediate suburbs of Cité-Belle. His most famous work, Panorama, is striking in its exquisite detail, and is exhibited along with several other of his paintings in the Museum of Realism in the city of Espérence. Minowa has also, however, dabbled in impressionism.
"I've wanted to paint clouds since I was a child," he once explained. "I've always found them fascinating. As a child, I imagined some mythical being making great efforts of detail to paint them across the sky, and I wanted to do the same in my own limited way."
When not painting, Minowa helps grow vegetables in collectively-worked fields near his home.
DENISE SAO (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/denise_sao.html) is a noted Ariddian painter. She is an Indigenous Ariddian of mixed ethnic and cultural background. Her paintings reflect the challenges of modernity, as well as the intellectually stimulating but sometimes difficult dialogue (or "multilogue", as she calls it) and partial merging between cultures.
Many of her works may be seen at the Museum of National Art in Cité-Belle, Ariddia.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1349/saotimewv8yo3.jpg
Time, a work by Denise Sao.
Singers / musicians
PING (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/ping.html) (real name: Nathalie Greenfields) is a famous pop singer in West Ariddia. She is actively pro-communist, which, in an ultra-capitalist society, has no doubt helped increase her fan base.
She was born in a relatively poor family in the town of Port-Rochebleue, on the southern coast of West Ariddia. She grew up in a desperately poor area of the town, seeing beggars every day as she went to school. At the age of 13, shortly after she had begun work at a factory, she was arrested for stealing food in a supermarket. These experiences left her deeply embittered, but she used them to fuel her creative talent.
It was while singing in the street for money at the age of 17 that she was noticed by a record company, who decided to take a risk and give her a chance to express her talent. Within months, "Ping", as she chose to call herself, was a phenomenal success. Within two years, she was organising free concerts as well as paying ones.
Finding herself suddenly wealthy, Ping moved herself, her family and her friends to better housing, and was able to pay for their healthcare. She also now had the money to attend university, and enrolled in economics courses, paying for the studies of her younger brother and several long-time friends as well.
"I want to find out why our society isn't working, and what can be done about it," she told the media when asked why she was choosing to study economics.
As her popularity increased, she began to openly express support for the Democratic Communist Party, and appealed to those who would not usually vote to cast a vote for communism. "It works up in North-West Ariddia," she explained in an interview. "It's all about social justice and treating people like actual human beings, and we can make it work here too."
CHANG XUE (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/chang_xue.html) (or Chang Sue) (sy:창수에,zh:張雪, dkr:장설) is a contemporary Ariddian musician. Her given name (Xue) is pronounced soo-eh in Syokaji and shoo-eh in Chinese.
Born in the inner suburbs of Sokojito Dosi, Unified Capitalizt States, Chang Xue is the second of three children. She was raised and educated there. She learnt to play the piano at a very young age, soon followed by a variety of other musical instruments. Her proficiency at music, combined with her soft, beautiful singing voice, led her to join music clubs from childhood. She signed her first contract to record solos at the age of 15.
By the time she attended university, Chang Xue had recorded several CDs, mostly solos of herself singing soft-voiced songs of her own writing, and accompanying them herself with piano or guitar. She sang mostly in Syokaji. She studied for two years at the university in Sokojito Dosi, before going to West Ariddia to complete her degree at the University of Aqeyr, in response to a contract offered by an Aqeyr-based records company.
During a holiday in neighbouring socialist Ariddia, Chang was struck by the Ariddians’ way of life, so different to anything she had ever experienced. Expressing her profound admiration for its communitarian ethos and solidarity, Chang later settled there permanently.
Chang sings in Syokaji, Chinese and French. Her songs are mostly gentle, soulful and soothing, and she is noted for her soft, melodious voice. Her best-known song is Lac d’automne.
Chang’s specialty is to put words to the music of the composer she most admires: Tchaikovsky. She has also written and performed some songs to the music of Mozart.
Her songs are mostly peaceful, soothing, beautiful and apolitical, but she has written two passionate, moving songs in English, Eyes Turned Inwards and Crying, which denounce selfishness and people’s lack of caring for the suffering of human beings (and animals) around the planet. These songs were destined for a foreign audience, and were released together as a CD single; they are Chang’s only songs in English. The choice of language was primarily for the lyrics to be widely understood.
Today, Chang Xue is one of Ariddia’s best-known singers and musicians.
For your eyes don't see the pain,
In your heart there is no rain
You have your eyes turned inwards
Your eyes turned inwards
Nothing there to see but you
You can't see what's oh so true
You have your eyes turned inwards
Your eyes turned inwards
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8017/pingchangxueuu4.jpg