it may seem to be this feeling of detachment for me. and yes, its so absolutely wonderful to get lost in pictures such as these. but it also comes with a feeling of immense sadness afterwards since none it can or could be real.
though i do hold out hope, since i want to travel the world someday and hopefully find somthing close to the art and pictures i have witnessed here. my "natural heaven" if you will.

I think that the pictures here create the feeling of a more utopian society. The Steampunk genre reflects my feelings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

I don't know what to call this feeling. It's not quite nostalgic, which to me is the 80's, it's just a good feeling. To me it makes me realize that I will never get to have this experience, mostly because society is becoming dystopian, not unlike the cyberpunk genre.

I would have to agree with most people here that the emotions resulting from these pieces of art do give off a unique feeling. For me it's the strongest of any feelings. As a kid all the cartoons and books that I watched or read were all really the same: person gets thrown into a different world, becomes a savior and doesn't have to do boring shit like school or go to work, but then he comes back (or wakes up) to his reality. It always made me sad when the reality part hit. Anyways I'm glad there's a bored like this. You really can find everything on the interwebz.

>>4313

what is the source for this, please ?

>>4416 Schuiten & Peeters - La Tour ("The Tower")

>>4310

"the intense feeling of unknowingly knowing that there is something which cannot be seen"

Definately.

i have no picture to go with it, but while i was shopping for a new bed, i came across a 20 dollar painting in the furniture store. The painting was a simple river scene, trees on each side as the river lazily flowed across the canvas. I knew before i even went up to it that i KNEW that place. I already knew each branch, each blade of grass. I must have looked like such a weirdo, standing there in the middle of the store tracing my fingers over the lines like a long lost lover or something. I wanted so bad to go back to that river and sit on the branch taht overhung from the shoreline, but somewhere in there i realized i didnt have a clue where it was.

Nostalgia... Deja vu... Sensations of something just outside of our minds, not quite there, floating on the edge, dancing alongside us.
I found this board a few years ago, and I keep coming back, in happy moments, and in dark, contemplative moments. The people here seem to share these same feelings, or at least something similar... they, you, whichever pronoun you want... give the feeling of kindred spirits.
It doesn't matter that we have most likely experienced almost nothing in common, and know nothing of each other: That's the spirit of it all, isn't it? That we have an identification, a familiarity, a remembrance, of things we can't possibly have those for?
It makes the world feel so transparent. You can feel that... something... dancing alongside you, skipping along playfully, just touching your reality for brief moments, and after that short burst of senses, that contact... you are left with a feeling of loss.
That you are missing something.
I no longer care that it could be a misfiring of neurons. A chemical error, a clerical error.
I, and I'm sure some of you, as well... Want to know what is missing.
I can't deny it. I can't write it off, throw it away, ignore it. It will always be there. Dancing.

I wonder if we should set up some sort of message board, or something. I'm the only one I know in person who feels this way, so I would love to get to know some of you all better...

But then again I wonder how well that would work...

Well, I do hope we all can meet someday, where waves form with the wind in a sea of grass and cascade against the wildflower banks...

sigh

>>4604

Your picture has started me wondering what it is about these images that manages to somehow evoke the feeling of nostalgia for what we haven't experienced. I believe there's some set of attributes of an image that can create these feelings and I'm curious now as to what it is.

The best illustration I have of this effect came from when my brother wanted to transfer some photos he shot on slide film to digital. Rather than use a slide scanner he set up a projector and took digital photos of the projections. This meant the resulting digital photos were slightly grainy, not perfectly focused and darker at the corners. As they were mostly of Fiji (so sunny island beaches, blue seas and jungle where almost everyone wore white) they seriously looked like memories of a dream, just because of the slight imperfections introduced by a slide projector.

It's something to do with the light. Discuss.

>>3991

If you're aware that there are tons of ugly concrete buildings and all the other drawbacks of mod cons, you won't be disappointed. :) I wasn't. (I still remember some guidebook I had where the author was b*tching about how his trip to idyllic Japan was totally ruined by all those horrible power lines and phone lines eyeroll.)

Oga Kazuo is the artist responsible for many of the wonderful backgrounds in Ghibli movies, by the way.

Air is another good anime with lots of scenic romance.

The Diary of Tortov Riddle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI32gQp9Y5g
that's chapter 1.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CU3F7VA2
that's the whole thing, uploaded for you all.

Here is another picture of Onomichi, just because.

Am I the only one who was completely awestruck by the settings in the second Ghost in the Shell movie. I mean, that parade, and that birds eye view of the city... Oh my god gorgeous... I wish I had a better screenshot.

>>3953 luckily for you, i have the whole thing on my computer as we speak. all 3 mind-numbing hypnotic volumes of it.
sadly, however, the picture had already been posted somewhere else so ill post a few a pic from a few pages in.

While there's rather few full landscape shots, Yotsubato! is all about peaceful suburban japanese scenery, lazy summer days and exploring new worlds behind every corner.

How come nobody mentioned 5 centimeters per second yet?
The entire damn movie consists of nothing but scenic routes and beautiful backgrounds!

>>4600

It was also quite depressing...

>>4593
Where is here?

>>4597
It's Ålesund, Norway.

>>2715

Can someone explain this picture to me? Is this real? How did it happen?

^ Forgot to add, is there a higher res version of this >>2313? Maybe even the artists name if possible?

>>3837
Probably Thomas Kinkade, the um... "Painter of Light". I think his work is made into calendars every year.

Wow... seriously impressive thread ^^
thanks a ton ^^

Finishing on a personal favorite.

Once again, wonderful, evocative images. Thank you so much for sharing.

As to a Senic Soundtrack... I may have a few suggestions that would fit the bill. The two soundtracks to the anime series "Mushishi" are composed entirely of instrumental pieces, and are quite a fitting mix of mystery, wanderlust and nostalgia.

The soundtrack to "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" (Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo" has a few lovely pieces, specifically the piano piece entitled "Daylife" never fails to get me remniscient and misty.

I also find that some of the old Enka tunes or Japanese hits from the 50s and 60s can get one in the proper mood for journeying and exploration. "Ue wo Muite" (Sukiyaki to American listeners) for example is a song my companions and I always sang at karaoke, and has strong personal meaning for me.

These are fantastic. Stylish yet detailed.

Multiple water levels?

Multiple floating islands?

downloading via torrent now;

"Iblard_Jikan_(2007)[720p,BluRay,x264,DTS]-_THORA"
tracker: http://tracker.datorrents.com:6969/announce

torrent file: http://www.fulldls.com/torrent-anime-238000.html
I'll seed for anyone else who's interested when I'm done, which looks like sometime in '09 right now.

Again, an anime that I think might fit this board: The Diary of Tortov Riddle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI32gQp9Y5g
chapter 1.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CU3F7VA2
the whole thing.

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Thanks for this, I would have never found it otherwise.
I loved it but really it was just paintings with 3D water and lots of bad tweening. The backgrounds were breathtaking but thats all that was there backgrounds. If they did more scenes with traditional Ghibli animation on top of Inoue's lavish artwork (scenes with the girl in the dress) it would distract you from the Flashesque tweening.
I expected alot more from Ghibli considering they added My Love by Aleksandr Petrov to their Ghibli-Museum.
http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/mezame/trailer/

>>4527
Wow, you could dive to the bottom, then... dive to another pool! Unless you hit something solid, then you die.

Myst island, most definately.

>>3610
agree with you, I see this movie over and over just to feel I'm in Corico.
(I believe is supposed to be somewhere in Portugal without WWII)

>>4097

psychoanalysis like this destroys all my dreams :(

Maybe its being surrounded by asphalt all my life, but I always wanted to live on a farm

>>4390

What a beautiful photo. Yours?

I wouldn't mind living somewhere nice and understated. Say, like this place.

(The Library of Congress. Preferably complete with books. ^_^ )

I prefer Emerald Coast from Sonic Adventure myself.

Somewhere rustic and cosy, like Badger's home from the Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Grahame. The picture is from the comic adaptation by Michel Plessix.