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Why are "anime" and "manga" mentioned in comparison? They don't seem to have anything to do with the subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theodore Kloba (talk • contribs)
There's a number of neutrality issues in this article, such as:
"He does ASFR drawings of female pin ups and erotic art that are super realistic and also draws robot women, cyborgs and other illustrations of humans and animals."
"... while simultaneously raising the level of skill and craftsmanship in the field to new heights."
"He is also described as one of the most significant erotic artists of the 20th century."
"The pinup art of Sorayama is delicious and erotic, blending the soft contours of the female form with the industrialized shiny metal "skin" of the humanoid "android" that is bound to both arouse and shock the viewer. Sorayama's "real women" pinups are sexy, intriguing, and seem "real to the touch". The robots, and combinations of the two, are shiny, glistening, and sleekly attractive."
-- Northgrove 08:53, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
"Sorayama is also often described as an imaginative modern day Vargas."
Vargas Links to Vargas (Comics) . I think the link should be to Alberto Vargas
Rich Mielke 14:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Sexy robot should simply be merged into this article. Hajime Sorayama is the person known for that phrase. --George100 09:42, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Humanoid "android" is needlessly repetitive.Sochwa 18:59, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Note: The following unsourced, dubiously-sourced, and copied or pirated text scattered within the body of the article was hampering it. I have moved it here for further elaboration / discussion. --SciCorrector (talk) 22:54, 25 March 2010 (UTC) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Within the Notable Works are a sub-category of 33 or potentially 84 Sorayama originals / master images that are embezzled and or pirated arts that public may assist to recover for reward on case by case basis. The public may be able to help find some of these images for a reward that www.sorayama.net will email terms on a case by case basis. Some of the pieces of interest at this time are as follows:
1. Embezzled / defrauded Image No. HS94 Contact www.sorayama.net for details.
2. Embezzled / defrauded Images No. 2001.16 embezzled original was recovered about Jan. 2010 and documented that the pirated aspect still exists in potential counterfeiting including ongoing contempt issues of the federal court system. It is wasting tax payer dollars while accelerating frauds during the court sessions; Image No. 2001.21 is an embezzled and pirated piece that is still open to recovery should someone come across it. [1]
3. Any Sorayama pieces designated WP or Working Proof that come with a Certificate of Authenticity from a gallery or publisher that have sold such pieces on line and or by mail that is documented in an acceptable format--contact for details with your details about the piece.
4. Any Sorayama piece with a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) from a Bane gallery or Bane publisher where the CoA is dated and signed between 2007 and 2010 time frame.
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In 2007, Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama obtained a nearly $2-million judgment (????), including $1 million in punitive damages, against Robert S. Bane, his publishing company, Robert Bane Ltd., and his gallery, the Tamara Bane Gallery. In 2009, a federal bankruptcy court refused to allow Bane to discharge the debt, citing a pattern of intentional and pervasive fraud perpetrated against Sorayama. BREAKING NEWS: 15 January 2010 Bankruptcy Appellate Panel rulings is concluded concerning trial court and bankruptcy court rulings against debtor. The trial court Judge Florence Marie Cooper and subsequent bankruptcy court rulings stand in place under the review and scrutiny of higher courts (citing United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the 9th Circuit: BAP No. CC-09-1108-MoPaH).[2]
In The Venture Bros. episode "Past Tense," a character named Mike Sorayama builds robots nearly identical to those depicted by Hajime. Sorayama is thanked in the episode's credits. In the South Park Series a short scene contains the world famous sexy robotic image. Star Trek series used Sorayama to design the female borg Romulan. He did art for the T3 Terminator movie/T3 Comics, Spawn 1997 and is now working on a new movie project. Perhaps, most famous is not a female form but the first generation of Sony AIBO robotic pets (first of their kind) which received the highest Japanese government award. Sorayama's art is in the permanent collections of MOMA and the Smithsonian Institution.[1]
The late 1990s to present day 2010 are a busy period for Sorayama. In addition to books, limited edition lithographic prints and giclees being published, Sorayama's futuristic and Shunga-style work was serialized monthly in Bob Guccione's Penthouse magazine and graced the pages of Playboy and other magazines. He consulted as a conceptual artist for the films, Brain Dead (movie) (1992), Time Cop (1994), Spawn (movie) (1997), Night Watch (movie) (1997), and the HBO TV series, Perversions of Science (1997). In 1995, he designed a mechanical warrior for the science-fiction B-movie, Space Trucker. His renderings of the female form appear on Aerosmith's album "Just Press Play" and has been engaged to do art for female T3 Terminator as well as the Star Trek series borgified female forms. Southpark, the animated show, has used Sorayama art in one of their episodes.
In the late 1990's, Sorayama was approached by the Sony Corporation to design an organic robotic form. It became the famous "AIBO" dog, the first [artificial intelligence] pet[1], which received Japan's highest design award and was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.[2] and the Smithsonian Institution for their permanent collections. All this occurring at the turn of the century as Sorayama's art grew in popularity.
In 2005, Playboy Sexcetra made a TV special about Sorayama including an interview with his longtime agent Ms. Yamamoto. During 2002 to 2008 Sorayama had many well attended art shows at different venues; One Man Show at Gallery GGG, Tokyo and Osaka/Japan,Group Exhibitions at Ginza Recruit Gallery in Tokyo, a USA venue one was at the international Opera Gallery NYC location and the other at WEAM in South Beach, Florida. In 2009, Sorayama was one of 25 Japanese artists to be commissed by Nike to create a tribute to the company's White Dunk. An interview with Sorayama can be seen at www.whitedunk.com
Sorayama's most extensive publishing project, a new book, is planned for release in late spring 2010.
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There is a need for wikipedian / admin help as a re-posting is made into External Links and to help learn about the nature of its removal(s) between about 2011 and 2016. One of the most vital longest standing Official Websites (1998 to ongoing) in External Links was removed leaving behind only a third party fan site and a younger Official Website which are fine except it creates an unbalanced selection of External Links and also removes what is more likely than not the most extensive resource about the art / artist Hajime Sorayama. The removal appears to have been potentially done for commercial backlink reasons / other reasons by an unknown third party backlink promoter or gallery promoter. It may have been an error by not leaving reasons for the removal in this fashion. We plan to re-post the External Link "Official Website born circa 12/1998" with a link and need guidance about it from wikipedian or wikipedia staff.
The External Link "Official Website born circa 12/1998" leads to the website(s) of the longest standing and ongoing Official Website(s) representing the Artist Hajime Sorayama for about a quarter century. I have partly used this firm for many reliable neutral facts for years because it is holding one of the most extensive “expert” knowledge bases/archives about the artist, copyright info and artworks. The owner of Artspace Company Y, LLC / Artspace Company Y LLC is the only person/firm we know of to date mentioned in a Federal government associated setting being recorded as an “expert” on the subject of Hajime Sorayama arts by a high ranking Federal Government Official of the USA. The wayback machine includes but is not limited to archives that also show the favorable nature of this Official Website in context of reliable information about the subject matter and need to be included in External Links area. Bubwater (talk) 06:55, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I think , have to read full talk page as well as deep research on this matter , then I will come to comment on it. Kalamya (talk) 07:41, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
This explains why long standing External Link target website (sorayama.net) has been removed and restored. Information available within World Wide Web (including the wayback machine / Internet Archives) evidences that this link http://sorayama.net/sexy-robot-blog.html was the longest standing sorayama.net related outbound link on this page until the interception of this page by a new unknown user/new editor who removed it without Talk Page comments nor signing these page(s). As a fan of Hajime Sorayama we too prepared the link as a data source and restored it (http://sorayama.net/sexy-robot-blog.html ). However, an unknown new editor/new user(s) had changed the long living link (sorayama.net) removing it from External Links and also replaced the same with a less reputed web page which, itself, has collected data from previous long standing link that was removed. I am astonished by seeing that unknown new younger contributors appear to be very promotional (one URL at footnote number “3” is self-described as a Wikipedia backlinks promo professional), making far reaching unqualified changes and that they do not sign nor make Talk Page comments. Footnote number “3”: The 2 youngest URL(s) within External Link(s) possibly placed numerous superscripts/footnotes and associated it to a footnote numbered “3”. The URL link(s) associated to footnote 3 maybe authored some key area contributions into text of first two paragraphs (or more). The drastic changes appear to be of commercial dubious natures sending out a Red Flag for more research. Maybe this went unnoticed simply because changes were made without any comment on Talk Page dating back to about 2012. Specifically, footnote “3” changes the complexion of the article. At same time it is promotional rather than neutral. This substantially by associating large parts of the totality of the Wikipedia article to a dubious footnote “3” related commentary/interview authored in 2012. Text is centering the article on a backlinks promo firm in Indonesia that appears to leverage Wikipedia for purposes mainly other than neutrality. The backlinks promo firm in Indonesia who conducted the interview is not an established art critic for any art magazine of merit and has little experience with the artist other than a brief interview with added colorful rather than neutral commentary. The URL is not fact checked nor sourced with references. Also, notable is a clear reference to “The Peach Colored Encyclopedia” which has no records as being a published book or maybe did not exist or maybe something entirely different. This book aspect needs to be better qualified; as it sounds more like a failed attempt to publish a problematic book. A more startling hyped aspect is the title of the URL and its first paragraph in context of the usage of the words “airbrush”, “legend” and the artist use of the airbrush. Note there are standard well sourced third party art critic(s) articles from major well established art magazine(s) that would add substance or counter-balance neutrally this URL at footnote number 3; a most recent one is currently authored in 2016 about art of Hajime Sorayama that is comprehensive and scientific. By including “as is” this URL (related to footnotes numbered “3”) in External Links re-writes historical fact for promos and may mislead readers about the technical constructs and tools e.g. paintbrush, pencils, airbrush etc of the artist / illustrator. Note there are good sources of evidence available and A DVD entitled “Sorayama Secrets Revealed” narrated by Dru Blair to demonstrate the actual use of the paintbrush, pencil, airbrush etc which, while vital to the painting, is quite different than how it is being portrayed by this URL at footnote “3”. Also, they just did it on the Japanese version of wikipedia as well in Exteranl Links. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A9%BA%E5%B1%B1%E5%9F%BA
So now whoever did it is new user and most likely not disclosing a commercial related conflict of interest. Purpose appears to be to debase or devalue the long standing official website. I suspect (but do not know 100%) it is a person who has conflict of interest to possibly buy sorayama.net None of this removing aspect should be on neutral fact based article of wikipedia
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A9%BA%E5%B1%B1%E5%9F%BA Another way to understand is to actually view artist Sorayama over the course of about 3 to 5 hours as he creates a work of art by himself at such timeframe that is of substance in context of this URL. Bottom line is there is a need for more detail to determine if the contributors who removed/changed aspects of the longest standing Official Website (sorayama.net / sorayama.com) failed to declare a possible conflict of interest to Wikipedia and entered an encyclopedia article for purpose of creating unbalanced/commercial purposes re-write of article outside of Wikipedia neutral article authorship methods. It is better to restore the previous version associated to sorayama.net and potentially investigate the newer links that are now included next to sorayama.net within External Links of the page as well as observe/delete the low quality Talk comments from here. Kalamya (talk) 07:29, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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