0Toast Girl Toast of Tokyo
Kjeld Duits - Feb 20 2010: Tokyo is full of surprises. A delightful one is Toast Girl, who is becoming increasingly popular.
2Couple Jam Part 2
Deanne Tonking - Nov 11 2009: Tokyo based Photographer Hal keeps the creativity flowing this week in part 2 of the Couple Jam interview.
1Couple Jam Part 1
Deanne Tonking - Nov 04 2009: The bathroom is the most private place in the house for most couples, Photographer Hal has made it his studio for his latest book Couple Jam.
10Dark Fantasies
Kjeld Duits - Mar 21 2008: Japanese photographer Miya Kishimura pulls you into a dark world of fantasy from which it is difficult to escape. A school girl in uniform with desperate eyes. The same girl with grotesque make-up. In another shot she lies on the street, seemingly dead. This is Kishimura’s world.
0All Bought Up by Tokyo
Kjeld Duits - Aug 07 2007: Japanese artist Ayako Ookubo uses manga, surreal characters and symbols in her creations. Recently Ookubo was interviewed by Tokyo Art Beat about the t-shirt she designed for the site.
20Selling Fruits to the World
Kjeld Duits - Nov 01 2003: Shoichi Aoki has brought Japanese street fashion to the eyes of the world.
0The Two Faces of Takashi Murakami
Kjeld Duits - Oct 28 2003: Takashi Murakami is often billed as the next Andy Warhol. Like the American pop art icon, he fuses high and low, pulling imagery from consumer culture to produce visually arresting, highly original work.
3Colors Like Fluttering Butterflies
Kjeld Duits - Sep 01 2003: Right around the corner from where UH Garden attracts huge crowds, with no protection from the harsh Summer sun of Osaka, sits Michi Kawao (1981), now in her final year of Osaka University of Art.
0Romance on the Streets
Kjeld Duits - May 01 2003: Crescendo Time Lover is very easy to find on the streets of Osaka. Wherever they perform they tend to draw the largest crowds, even when nearby heavy metal bands all but drown them out.
0Sex, Violence and Funny Jokes
Kjeld Duits - Apr 01 2003: The work of Japanese Illustrator Tsutomu Nagashima (1974), known on the streets as Keroman, at first seems disturbing and confusing.
0100% Pure Osaka Street Funk
Kjeld Duits - Mar 01 2003: It is Sunday in front of Osaka Station. On top of a pedestrian overpass a bunch of orange-clad musicians are playing music as if their lives depend on it.
0More Fun on the Computer
Kjeld Duits - Feb 02 2003: Hideki Itoh is not a street artist like the other artists that are introduced on these pages. He is obviously more matured, but his art is also not traditional street art.
0"I am Not an Artist..."
Kjeld Duits - Jan 02 2003: I discovered Sayaka Adachi (1977), or Chitchi, while I was taking Street Fashion photos in Osaka’s very trendy Horie district. Walking out of a park my eye got a glimpse of a huge painting hanging in a second floor gallery.
0Nishimura's Wonderful War of Words
Kjeld Duits - Dec 01 2002: Takashi Nishimura (1973) is often compared with illustrator Mori Chack. Amazingly, the two do share a lot.
6The Cute Pink Bear with Blood on its Claws
Kjeld Duits - Nov 01 2002: The character Gloomy the Bear at first sight looks like a possible friend of Hello Kitty. Cute face, pink skin, simply drawn in basic colors.
