Meaning of discussing about Distance?

Is any meaning or merit in discussing about Distance?

Reason I started writing the blog from view point of distance is just because I am not good at measuring distance in life.

But I imagine, we who are living in the world, where global economy violently unites a whole world in a second, while on the other hand a lot of nationalism is arising in each area of the world.

In such a condition, how to measure the world might be a key to explore the world.
To measure distance between 2 objects in front of oneself and to measure distance from oneself to the objects, both.

And what kind of stories in the Distance itself we can find out might be also a key to enjoy the life.
Some kind of distance in real life never disapeare unfortunately, however, (or rather) that's why we can enjoy the life.

As a trial, some memos are trying to analyse Movie, Music or whatever from the view point of Distance.
From my view, impressive movies contain a lot of Distance in different phases which gives the movies richness.
And the most impressive ones sometimes suggest unmeasurable Distance.
Unmeasurable means "unable to describe in text" but those great movie shows or embrace that unmeasurable Distance in a picture, that is the real pleasure of a movie, I believe.

It might be called composition of plots or the theme, I guess. If we analyse movies every time from the view poin of Distance, it would be boring and spoil the great movies.
But it may give us a hint to our real life.

Distance between a movie and a real life......

"Gran Torino"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/

Spoiler alert.

Story of:

Distance as a division between White America and Immigrant.

Distance between an old man who lost his wife and his other family.
Distance between a family tie and communication with an adjacent resident's family who belongs to completely different culture.
Distance in a same ethnic group.
Distance between an aggressive character and a shy personality, in a short-term view and a middle-term view.
Distance between good-old American 70's spirit and today's global pop youth culture.
Distance in design between a characteristic car and a economical car.
Distance between steeling and maintenance.
Distance between outrage and a bait.
Distance between a life and a death.
Distance between a preserved young life and the old man's death in exchange for the young's life.

Distance as a hope between White America and Immigrant.

"A Perfect World"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107808/

Spoiler alert.

Story of:
Distance between a boy and a prison breaker.
(Originally huge distance, no relationship. But by accident they shall be close to each other.)
Distance between the prison breaker and his missing father.
Distance between boyhood and adult life.
Distance between good and bad.
Distance between social justice and individual right.
Distance between religious restriction and populism.
Distance between friendship and hostility .
Distance between mother's embrace and the friendship.
Distance between old fashioned manual investigation and scientific basis investigation.
Distance between a sniper and the prison breaker.
Distance between a postcard and a gun.
Distance between Alaska and main land.
Distance between a scenery picture and a real life.
Distance between a scenary picture and a perfect world.

Distance between the real life and the perfect world.
"Perfect" dosen't require "Distance", does it?

Perfect world might be an utopia which requires no distance to anybody.
That would be for the persons who are not good at handling real distance in the real world.

As a Tourist!

Not yet read, but really interested book I would like to read as soon as possible!
"A Philosophy of the Tourist" by Azuma Hiroki
https://genron-tomonokai.com/book/en/genron-0/
As a tourist and the person working in abroad as an expat, sense of distance is essential!

Desire for Distancology

Nickname <---> Real Name

"Daft Punk by Pentatonix" (Temp)

Distance between Human Voice and Instrument
Distance inside Human voice
Distance as harmony among voices of 5 members

Distance between Analog and Digital
Distance between Nature and Technology

"ILO ILO"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2901736/

Spoiler alert.

Story of,

Distance between family and a maid
Distance between a boy and an auntie
Distance between a mother and a maid

Distance between a boy and an adult
Distance between Singapore and Philippine
Distance between the maid and her own son
Distance between job and family
Distance between family and the others
Distance between Tamagochi and a real chick
Distance between Discipline and personality

Distance between Nation and Individual
Distance between man and woman
Distance between luck and failure

Distance between 90s and now

Distance between life and death

Distance between a boy and a girl

Distance inside HDB

Distance at apartment roof

Distance in Singapore

Distance in Asia

Distance as a scent of hair

Distance as life

What a deep surface of this young country!

Distance between Blue and Green

As for the traffic light, color of "To Go" is called "Green" in many countries, while people in some countries call that "Blue".
That is not only for the traffic light. Sometimes people call immature person as "green" in English, but in other language, they are called "blue".

What is the distance of blue and green?
Superficially just a distance in frequency spectrum?

Ancient people needed to symbolize all the facts in front of us to communicate in certain rule, I guess.
That's why they invented the word 'Green" or "Blue", area by area.
And that is linguistic system.

How could this symbolized linguistic system cover the area which occupy between "Green" and "Blue"?

Huge unknown crevice exists in our daily lives.
Still so many things we can find as an adventurous explorer!

"American Sniper"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sniper

Spoiler alert.

Story of,

Distance between Trigger and Target (mile or more?),
Distance between Assumption and Judgement (for shooting),
Distance between Life and Death,

Distance between Father and Son,
Distance between Friend and Enemy,
Distance between Patriotism and Familism,
Distance between Pax Americana and Anti-Globalism,
Distance between Love and Hate,
Distance between Hope and Fear,
Distance between shooter and shooter,
Distance between Hero and Veteran,

All distance as less than a second! And Sniper stands for all these!

Timeless design / Distance-less Design

Internet is the space without Sense of Distance, in a meaning.
That is not only people can connect each other beyond physical Distance, but also because people can edit content anytime from anywhere.
No sense of Settlement.
People cannot measure distance if the objects are always moving.

To leave a footprint on the ground as a record to cross the distance.
Or to forget about the footprint behind to scrawl the world.

Both necessary for life, maybe.

distance from the past till now

Sometimes we look back the past and notice that I come from there till now by selecting some particular options.
We do not notice when we are doing something, especially when suffering or struggling.
And after a while, we came to the point and found some distance which we walked all the way to there.
That is time distance from the past till now and sometimes another distance which we experienced and which is very hard to measure. Maybe that is the age.

I sometimes did look back and thought "was that the best option for me to take?"

But recently I also noticed "when I chose that option, that was the best I thought at that time." So no need to look back too much and no need to regret some choice even if the other option looks much more attractive now. I should respect myself of that age.

To talk about distance between the past and now is not to think about other options we could select, but to sharpen the sense for selecting options by looking back.

To start new year of 2015, just reminding the above to myself.

What will happen to me this year?
What do I want to achieve this year?
How much can I enjoy this year?

And how much can I develop "Distance" this year?

Distance inside distance?

Once there are two reference points, there exists distance.

As I mentioned, perception or understanding of that distance will be different depending on the view point. That means there would be "Distance" even between perception of that distance from each other.

How can we handle these?

Distance contained distance itself.

Or is that the fate and character of Distance? 

Depth of Distance

Related to previous thread (distance from each side), not only perception of distance is different but also depth of distance also differ by person by person.

Experience or age is always the factor. But also nationality or cultural (in many meanings) back ground will affect.

And I believe that will not only make bad for the people. Sometimes this small gaps between person by person will create much more dramatic life for each.

Most of love stories in the world are generated by these kind of small gaps by perception or depth of distance.

Life is filled with full of Distance, but that's why it is fulfilled with full of happiness or secret of life.

distance from each side

Distance will be observed from both side, because distance can only exist when there is two different point.

But of course depending on each experience or value, perception of distance differ.
So even if it seems they are discussing about same distance, sometimes they discuss totally different thing.

One of the idea is to hire somebody else for fare judgement for that distance like universal code, but for our general daily life, we need to rely on our own intuition or somebody's advice.

There would be no correct answer, which distance would be correct. Rather, at least, to be sure that distance can be different from view point by view point is basic requirement for all persons for each matter.

And what kind of happy misinterpretation occur will save the world, I would like to believe, though such idea is a childish dream I really know.

Distance of Ballpoint Pen

Length :approx. 14 mm
Writing Distance :1,200 m ("PENTEL E-BALL BALLPOINT PEN RETRACTABLE BK130 1.0mm") 
Letter :120,000 letters (assumed an average letter is 10 mm)
Word :26,667 words (assumed an average of 4.5 letters per word)
Line :2,667 lines (assumed 10 words in a line in A4 size notebook)
Page :80 pages (assumed 33 lines in A4 size notebook)
How many boy/girl friends you can catch by writing love letters to grab their hearts :?
How much you can move people's heart:?

http://www.pelikanartline.co.nz/product-BK130-C,pentel-e-ball-ballpoint-pen-retractable-bk130-1.0mm-blue.php
http://yehweh.org/profiles/blogs/the-average-number-of-letters

By the way, now people prefers typing key board rather than writing by pen.
Is that the reason why recent issue for communication is getting much more on hitting rather than on distance?

Distance in Blog system

I started (actually resumed several years after registration) this blog recently to just leave a memorandum for myself to think about Distance. So I am writing randomly from what I thought about. I often start writing very roughly first and edit (or sometimes totally revise) it very later on. I wrote from PC at home or sometimes from mobile phone during biz trip in other countries.

I am not sure about the detail of this blog system or even internet system, but anyway all appeared in the web.

How did these thoughts or texts travel these invisible distances and where did these to be stored?

Really childish and old fashioned query to information technology but still mysterious and somehow fantastic, though based on actual technology......

”Billy Elliot"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249462/

Spoiler alert.

Story of,

Distance between a boy and his dream
Distance between Boxing and Ballet
Distance between the Masculine and the Feminine
Distance between a boy and his mother who already passed away but connected by her letters
Distance between an innocent boy and his muscular father & elder brother
Distance between father's expectation and his final understanding of his son
Distance between a ballet coach in the country and her pupil with potential power

But what a vibrant movement Billy Elliot shows!
He crosses the stage and all above distances with beautiful steps!

Achilles and Tortoise

Achilles cannot catch up Tortoise forever. This famous story often reminds me dullness of discussing about "distance".

Not only because it is directly the story which mention about distance, but also because it suggests "if you stick to some distance from the very narrow view point, you miss something much more important."

To point out, there are many distances between something and another, that is too much easy. Rather, to find out unusual crevasse in the world which seems very usual at a glance, that's much more important.

Actually we are all living in a bit dull world. It is not meaningless even if Distancology is full of dullness. Rather, starting from dullness is required manner for a person like me who is in a way awkward at living!?

Painting

Some people seem to jump into the painting's world when they see their favorite paintings. I happen to realize this by reading a mystery novel about Henry Rousseau.
I do sometimes go to museums and see a lot art works, but for me, they are still objects to be see.
I keep distance to observe, examine, understand or even think another things. But people who really love painting will not take distance to observe. They will directly dive into the world which the painting provide and live together with the artist or the object.
Painting is usually believed to be as an existence to be seen. But once the painting grab somebody's heart, suddenly the distance between the painting and the person disappear.
I understand such thing often happen in many medias in art, but almost forgot this may still happen in the classic art of 2d painting world.
What have I seen or experienced in museums till now?