Posts tagged with Japan
January 7, 2012 | Cool Travel | by Michael Cain |
Quietly nestled in the ‘Street of Drinkers’, Shibuya, is the tiny Piano Bar. Upon entering through the windowless door, you are transported to a bizzare world of red velvet, crazy chandeliers and bizarre portraits. There is a maximum capacity of just eight people, so make sure you get there first. Read more
December 10, 2011 | New Trends | by Zolton |
From the WTF files, some dental students in Japan are practicising their oral techniques, as well as their people skills, on hapless Sex Dolls created by Yoshida Dental Manufacturing. The Hanako Showa 2 comes complete with tongue and cheeks (tongue in cheek?) and punctuates its time in the dental chair with an array of human emotions and expressios, such as ‘blink, cough, sneeze, choke and move its eyes’. Surreal!. Perhaps one can take my place for my next check-up.
October 14, 2011 | New Fashion | by Roberto Lange |
La Mano Fria is a graphic artist who uses sampled imagery and re-configures them and in a way mirrors what hip-hop producers do with vinyl records. From these appropriated images, he reconfigures text and shapes to form something that’s in-between hand=printed posters and early digital artifact heavy graphics. These shirts are produced through Beams T in Japan.
September 8, 2011 | New Photography | by Anthony le Bourlier |
Sato Tokihiro is a Japanese photographer who creates light paintings to allude to a poetic vision of a chaotic world. He will open the shutter sometimes for more than two hours, using his large format camera to take us to another dimension. Read more
July 11, 2011 | Video | 
by Gerry Mak |
Cosplay never ceases to fascinate me, so I find this video by cosplay enthusiast and cinematographer Angel James de Ocampo (filmed at Japan Expo 2011 in Paris) to be pretty entertaining. Read more
July 1, 2011 | New Film | by Bright Archer |
A three hour long subtitled Japanese film involving just two characters for all but, say, ten minutes of its running time may not be everyone’s idea of a good time. Read more
June 30, 2011 | New Photography | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Known for his black and white close-ups of the human body, Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe is one of the pioneers who breathed life into the art of photography. He helped turned photography into an art form full of symbolism and depth as he produced dark yet beautiful avante-garde images, focusing on war, sex and death. Read more
June 24, 2011 | New Photography | by Michelle Wilding |
Japanese photographer Mitsuko Nagone has an eerie fetish for inserting random items into her distinctively constructed photos. And it works. She regularly contributes to Getty Images. Read more
June 20, 2011 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Japanese scientists have just synthesized meat from sewage. I wonder who will actually eat this, um, crap? I’ll put my money in finding ways to develop more sustainable agriculture, thank you very much. Raising my own veggies, chickens, and rabbits seems like a much simpler and less disgusting way of addressing the impending global food crisis.
June 11, 2011 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Only in Japan? Well, maybe. Though Oklahoma may be a close second on the radar. Apparently, in this time of recession, Japanese men have taken rather fondly to inanimate objects rather than the real thing as a less expensive way to, err, fulfill their needs. Well, ok, each to their own, so long as their own is made from rubber and latex. Read more
May 12, 2011 | New Food and Packaging | by The Urban Grocer |
Eyeglasses, keys, feathers, a camera. Sounds more like items you’d find in your junk drawer, than delightfulcookies; that is, until Cookieboy. Based in Japan, this baker and artist extraordinaire churns out tasty works of art, applying his background in textile design to ice up sugary masterpieces. Read more
April 2, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |
Breeder, a motion graphics and animation studio in Brisbane, have created a short animation called Rising, which they hope will act as a powerful reminder for people to donate to the Red Cross Japan disaster appeal.
March 30, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
Japanese artist Tomoko Sioyasu’s work is based on nature and echoes organic shapes and rhythms, mimicking water, wind and cells. Using the traditional art of paper-cutting, the sculptures are transformed using utility knives and soldering irons, forming delicate tapestries that defy imagination. Read more
March 25, 2011 | New Music | by Jonathan Terhaar |
Japanese math rock rippers Lite is from Tokyo. My friend just saw them open for Mike Watt and said they stole the show.
March 22, 2011 | Video | by Zolton |
I have no idea what is going on here, and even less of an idea about what Nyoki! Nyoki! means. But somehow, you know, it doesn’t even matter.
deviantArt user Smapte makes amazing knit versions of famous movie characters. Her Big Lebowski ones are amazing as are the Dune ones. Read more
My sister runs an after-school college prep program in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. She loves fashion, but is also very frugal. She keeps a very funny blog about the most exorbitant, ridiculous fashion items around. I don’t care about fashion myself, but I find her blog to be good for a laugh (and sometimes, a cry.)
Sufjan Stevens creates autistic music for introverts — soft, shy, naive, full of shadows, windows, and insecurities. Yet it all sounds slightly forced, his enigmatic songwriting as comforting as it is unsettling.
You don’t have to venture far in Bangladesh to encounter a rickshaw, the nation’s most popular means of transport. Read more
LA’s premier art and design magzine, Arkitip, has gone all out with the ‘free’ giveaway for issue no. 0045 and has included a 9″ x 12″ Evan Hecox 2-color silk screen print signed by the artist! Read more
Given the amount of talent he has, it’s a mystery why German producer Pantha Du Prince not received more attention than he has. His minimal tech soundscapes are surprisingly melodic and moody, as reflected on his epic track, Asha, as good a starting point to the music of this German electro whiz as any.
No, Dorothy would have never come across these shoes in Oz, but she would have at Odin, a smallish men’s store in New York’s East Village. Read more
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Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
Pencils made from recycled newspaper
The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.
It’s refreshing to see artists like Joe Kievitt who are contented to explore the beauty in simple forms and asymmetrical patterns. Read more
A tribute to the movie trilogy Back to the Future and that childhood fantasy, the Hoverboard, and designed in the style of a vintage comic book ad that promises the earth but delivers very little, this sexy five colour screen printed t shirt is by New Zealand-based label Cuppa t shirts. Read more
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