Recently, the new drama "My Life Again" with a Douban score of 8.2 has brought the former top stream Lee Joon Ki to a new height.
After returning to the transformation, the reason why he must be hot in every drama, leaving aside the audience relationship of choosing a script + always online acting + childhood filter, is also closely related to his state of being stuck at every aesthetic popular point at the right time.
From the charming flower beauty in the period of idol drama to the sharp and cold functional beauty of the sword today, he is like the three-dimensional embodiment of the male protagonist of "Love, Death and Robot".
As a melting pot of multiple aesthetic styles, Love, Death and Robots has shown vast and profound aesthetic value since the first season.
Although the second season is slightly inferior to the miracle of the first season, it does not prevent us from continuing to look forward to the upcoming third season on May 20.
"Love Death Machine 2" | It is still a melting pot of different aesthetic styles
After all, even if the story is still old-fashioned, the aesthetic experience brought by the aesthetic style will never fade.
In particular, the functional wind loved by "Love Death Machine", with the vigorous development of current technology and virtual idols, is destined to push this warm and cold, rational and sci-fi style into the mainstream of public aesthetics like in the play.
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Origins and Development: A splendid culture spawned by imagination
Strictly speaking, the cultural origins of functional winds cannot be very clearly defined.
It is represented in specific groups of historical figures, such as the Neon Ninjas. During the Warring States period, when the flowers were in full bloom, the ninja's superb professionalism and functionality were fully demonstrated. With their neat makeup that blends with the night and their flexible physical skills + ninjutsu, they complete tasks that are difficult for ordinary people to complete.
The classic anime culture that was standard and spawned by the old ninjas, "Naruto"
This specially trained real-life group is like a whole new life form that jumps out of a fantasy book.
The Koga Ninjutsu Dharma | Adapted from the neon writer Kitaro Yamada's tome of the same name
With the development of the new wave of science fiction movement in the 1960s-1970s, people's imagination and mobility were also excavated to a greater extent. This directly pushes the functional wind to align with the aesthetic style of Cyberpunk.
Akira | Isn't it a bit of cyber Chongqing's flavor?
Cyberpunk is a combination of cybernetics + punk punk, and contains the kernel of neurorobotics Neurobotics.
Ghost in the Shell
Most of the cultural backgrounds are set in the future, based on the survival model of low-end life + high technology. In this space-time, there are simultaneously advanced science and technology, beautiful bionic humans, and, to a certain extent, chaotic and disintegrating social structures.
The 1982 nihon kotomo Katsuyo's series of manga "Akira", coupled with the film "Blade Runner" adapted from the novel in the same year, is a classic case of the popularization of Cyberpunk's aesthetic.
Akira, Blade Runner
In 1984 William Gibson's fused punk culture + early hacker culture in Neuromancer, confirming Cyberpunk's place in literature as an independent science fiction genre.
All of this laid the foundation for the functional style in which we see Cyberpunk's cyberpunk culture, as well as the adornment of its aesthetic details.
"Love Death Machine 1" | Very Cyberpunk's color matching + lens language
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Aesthetic atmosphere: from fiction to reality
The development of functional wind has spawned two major aesthetic atmospheres, one is the high-precision outer space atmosphere represented by the former Cyberpunk. With more distant galactic vision, and a cold-feeling mech atmosphere wrapped in cutting-edge technology.
Frank Herbert's Setting of the Distant Future and Galactic Vision in Dunes is a masterpiece of the early style.
The Matrix series is one of the few and highly successful Cyberpunk functional aesthetic films.
The other is the post-Cyberpunk's predilection of a dystopian atmosphere of peace and security. In the calm daily life surrounded by thick smoke and fire, both humans and bionic people maintain hidden combat attributes that can erupt at any time.
This functional atmosphere is full of enthusiasm and bloodiness that is suppressed under the calm, so the visual impact is also powerful. The street culture composed of neon colors such as pink, purple, black and blue is fuller, which decorates the splendid fireworks more fully.
Under the continuous intertwining and collision of technology and culture and aesthetics, many unique niche cultures have emerged, each with its own sense of circle identity. As BDO - Huge Silent Object enthusiast Big Dumb Object.
This preference for all things that are huge, mysterious, and have incredible powers is the quality of BDO. Some may be terrified of the vast unknown, but for BDO, it is an infinite exploration of the wider world.
2001: A Space Odyssey | People who fear huge objects may be uncomfortable seeing the image on the right
The Giant chapter in Love Death Machine 2 depicts a shift in humanity's attitude towards unknown forces far beyond its own.
From fear to curiosity to destruction, events don't have to be about aesthetics, but they have to be about human nature.
The key words of the sense of function are: sense of technology, sense of interstellarity, sense of sharpness and imagination, and the cutting-edge culture that people yearn for in the present represents the unknown that will eventually be realized in the near future.
Akira in 1988 | Classic red motorcycle
Ready Player One in 2018 | A tribute to the cultural symbol of the sense of function
The development of functional wind has also advanced from the second dimension in the book fantasy to the third dimension, from the concept to the reality.
For those of the 1970s-1990s, the boom of VR-virtual reality, Virtual Reality, turned childhood-out-of-reach ideas into real lives that accompanied Gen Z's growth.
"Love Death Machine 1" | Ai virtual characters that blur the boundary between illusion and reality, CG is very superior
It embraces the niche culture that people yearn for, and no matter what you love, you may find a home and answer here.
Finch X Death Machine 1
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Functional Beauty: Line type and body type
It can be said that the functional wind satisfies the pursuit of future style in the past hundred years, which has both a part of the retro sense of the Renaissance and more cutting-edge attributes, and it is logical to become the general trend of popular style aesthetics.
Ghost in the Shell
With the development of scientific and technological culture, the faces of functional beauties have also been continuously advanced.
Two-dimensional CG pinch face --- AI virtual idol (2.5-dimensional sense) --- three-dimensional real modeling face, functional beauty face corresponds to the sense of harmony and refinement that people are constantly pursuing.
The new "Xianjian 1" CG version of Zhao Ling'er, Liu Yexi, Brazilian supermodel Larissa Marchiori
The facial beauty of the line-type functional face will be more oriental, and the viewing focus is on the sharp lines of the face.
It contains the clear jaw line on the bone contour, and it is also reflected in the delicate and beautiful facial features.
The Last Vampire | Jeon Ji-hyun plays the little night knife
Li Junji is one of the representative male colors of the line type, and the flower beauty male period eats the female phase dividend brought by the slightly full skin phase + slender facial features, and now he gives full play to the sharp beauty of the skin phase wrapped around the lower bone phase.
The loss of collagen has blessed the characteristics of male beauty, and the functional attributes of the lines have also changed from feminine to sharp, which is also applicable to female faces.
Just as the fifth generation of red gods Yan Liu Zhimin, she is like the feminine version of Lee Joon Ki.
The facial beauty of the bulk functional face is more Western bone. The focus of the viewing is the "sense of attack" brought about by the superior facial folding + large proportion of facial features.
The "Four Beauty of Tianya" ancient doll beauty in the peak period of gold content and the Xinjiang beauty who dominate the strong face status of your circle are all high-quality presentations of bone phase body beauty. The same kind of Oriental beauty is the same western beauty, which is a blood beauty, and they are all rich and dense style textures.
"Night Interview with vampires"
The tearing face and AI modeling face that the public aesthetics love are also the evidence of the continuous three-dimensional reality of the functional beauty face.
"Alita Battle Angel", which became a phenomenon-level character during the release period, is to move from paper man to reality.
The sense of function brought by the setting similar to the transformation of the human body meets all our needs for Mu Qiang + appreciation, and the refreshing characters are indispensable to the blessing of functional attributes.
Widow Sister's Classic Character "Ghost in the Shell"
In the future entertainment system, there must be a place for AI virtual idols. The people are stable and never collapse, and Liu Yexi is worth it.
The source of the figure is micro-| Invasion and deletion
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Style presentation: Practical functional details
In terms of wearing, the soul of the functional wind lies in mobility, so the requirements for the texture of clothing materials are extremely high.
Tomb Raider
There is a widely circulated saying in the field of architecture: "Function determines form, or form determines function." ”
For functional wear, it is destined to be like the architect Sullivan advocated, it is a form following function. Therefore, it is not that the clothing with a few large pockets + a few streamers can be called functional wind items, but we first need the function of the pocket cloth strip to make this design.
Understanding the root causes, we can eliminate many unknowingly tattered winds or spiritual exaggerations on the market.
A beautiful figure who can control a highly functional outfit while matching high-quality mobility, pointing directly to the heroine of "Deadly BlackLand", Zoe Saldana.
Inside and out, she is an excellent demonstration of the beauty of functional attributes, flexible and powerful, free and free, and the classic characters are also in the same style.
Therefore, it is also a good transmission of the important functions of functional wear: sporty, windproof, waterproof, sunscreen and cut-proof attributes, fit and toughness, all of which lead to hidden combat attributes hidden in trivial daily life.
The structure of the functional wind, which is guided by functional needs, can be the same silky nightwalker as the catwoman snake.
It can also be a genderless heroic aesthetic composed of various modular structures, or a millennial girl group style that blends sweet and spicy cool.
BP, who ate the functional wind makeup dividend very early, laid the foundation by the MV of "kill this love", and brought the milk fierce face by the way to make it once become a popular face followed by the public.
In the past two years, the show makeup of major brands has also continued to cultivate in the functional wind, and many big brands have invariably taken the functional route.
Just like there is a huge inclusive cultural background behind the functional wind, the actual use of the wear presentation is not amorphous, what to do is to make the functional design elements rational restraint and provenance.
In addition to design, makeup colors tend to be color systems with metallic luster that match functional structures.
Some of the bold makeup colors in "Excitement" are also the presentation of the core of Cyberpunk culture by the functional wind. No fear of worldly conventions, ten percent of the freedom of casualness.
If the birth and prosperity of a style is destined to be led by a group of early and unrecognized forerunners, it is them.
In the final analysis, the current functional wind not only satisfies the pursuit of future technology by all generations before the Z generation, but also fits the living habits of people in the late Z generation, so that the emotional needs of the public have a home.
Instead of having to accept it later, it is better to join it now with your most comfortable posture, and the next real fragrance may be you and me.