1. ABe Note: Transcribed from Digital Medium Image to Copy & Pasteable Text, via; Myself, Brandon Daniel MIxer, Also Known As: ~The Wired Alchemist~
2. These are ABe's Words from His Intro to his "yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations ab# rebuild an omnipresence in wired.
3. These words found Below are NOT My Words. I merely Transcribed them for you to Read, wothout having to view the Book nor the Image of the Book Text in which I found, and am using to write this out now. My intro words END, following the next TILDA Bullet-Point Space. As Follows:
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THIS BOOK IS A RE-PRINTING OF MY FIRST ART BOOK, AN OMNIPRESENCE IN WIRED, THAT WAS PUBLISHED BACK IN MAY OF 1999. AT THE END OF 2001, DESPITE THE CONSIDERABLE CONTINUED DEMAND FOR THE ORIGINAL BOOK, FURTHER PUBLICATION WAS CANCELLED DUE TO VARIOUS REASONS. I REGRET ANY TROUBLE THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED READERS. THOUGH I MYSELF HAVE BEEN DEEPLY FRUSTRATED OVER THIS, I AM VERY HAPPY NOW THAT THIS NEW EDITION HAS SEEN THE LIGHT OF DAY. TO MANY FANS WHO CLAMORED TENACIOUSLY OVER THE NET AND SUCH FOR ITS RE-RELEASE, I GIVE MY HEARTFELT THANKS.
AS I LOOK OVER MY PAST ARTWORK, I AM AT TIMES EMBARRASSED TO SEE THAT MUCH OF IT SEEMS WEAK ON A TECHNICAL LEVEL; BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I STILL FEEL THAT I WAS ABLE TO EXPRESS WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE THE EXACT WORLD THAT I WANTED TO CONVEY. I HAVE REAFFIRMED HOW DEEPLY THE WORLD OF SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN IS CONNECTED TO MY MOTIVATION FOR CONTINUING TO DRAW, AS WELL AS BEING A FACTOR IN MY STARTING TO DRAW IN THE FIRST PLACE. IN THE ORIGINAL EDITION, I BELIEVE I MADE A COMMENT TO THE EFFECT OF, "ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO 'CORRECT' IN ART, I BELIEVED THAT LAIN'S EXISTENCE WAS 'CORRECT' AND AS LONG AS I HAD THE POWER TO CONTINUE, I KNEW I WOULD ARRIVE THERE," AND I STILL BELIEVE THIS TODAY. THROUGH THIS WORK, I LEARNED TO EXPRESS BY PROJECTING MY INER SELF INTO THE ART. I COUNT MYSELF VERY FORTUNATE THAT THIS HAPPENED TO BE MY DEBUT WORK.
FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK: WANI MAGAZINE REPRESENTATIVE KOSHI YAMAZAKI, WHO PUSHED THROUGH THE PLANNING AND IMMEDIATE EXECUTION OF THE REISSUING OF THIS BOOK THAT HAD BEEN SITTING IN LIMBO FOR CLOSE TO THREE YEARS; WANI MAGAZINE EDITOR SATOMI FUKUSHIMA, WHO, IN ADDITION TO HANDLING THE MANY TEDIOUS FORMALITIES NECESSARY FOR REISSUING OF THIS BOOK, CARRIED OUT THE GREATER HALF OF THE ACTUAL WORK ALONE; BOOK DESIGNER TETSUYA TANAKA; CHIAKI KONAKA, WHO GRACIOUSLY GRANTED THE REUSE OF TEXT; CHIEF PRODUCER OF GENEON ENTERTAINMENT YASUYUKI UEDA, WHO, FOR SOME REASON, CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR THE DESIGN OF THE VARIOUS CHAPTER TITLE PAGES; AND TO THE THEN-SONY MAGAZINE EDITOR AKIRA HONDA, WHO EDITED THE ORIGINAL OMNIPRESENCE ~ ENTIRELY ON HIS OWN. TO THESE PEOPLE, I GIVE MY MOST SINCERE THANKS.
AND TO ALL YOU READERS, MY HOPE IS THAT THIS BOOK MAY ONCE AGAIN SERVE TO EXPAND THE FIELD IN WHICH YOUR PERSONAL LAIN IS OMNIPRESENT.
YOSHITOSHI ABE 2005 . 08 . 05
