Push Yourself Until Your Nose Starts Bleeding

digital / JPEG, 680×382 / screenshot / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-237 — Push Yourself Until Your Nose Starts Bleeding
FI-EPH-237 / Push Yourself Until Your Nose Starts Bleeding / source photograph 01

Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.

Custody record

Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.

What is known

Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a subtitled outdoor still from the NHK World documentary "10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki." The subject, in glasses and a striped shirt, speaks beneath an overcast sky and a high-voltage transmission tower, a white rope hanging across the foreground. The burned-in subtitle reads "You must push yourself until your nose starts bleeding." The line is the broadcaster's translation, reproduced as found and not verified against the original Japanese. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.

Why it remains connected

accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.

What remains unresolved

digital / JPEG, 680×382 / screenshot / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.

Keep the object connected.

The Shadow Zone

A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.

Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open

Source Assets / 1 reference

Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.

  1. assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-237-miyazaki-nose-starts-bleeding.jpeg Open local asset