Couple Jam Part 2
Tokyo based Photographer Hal keeps the creativity flowing this week in part 2 of the Couple Jam interview.
Couple Jam Part 1
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.
Naked Tokyo:2008
Naked Tokyo is an international collective of photographers who apply their signature styles to interpreting Japan’s capital by revealing a small sliver of the Naked Tokyo within.
Murakami in Germany
The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the works of Takashi Murakami are on show at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany. If you are nearby, this is worth a visit!
Good Music, Fresh Visuals
If you are based in or around Tokyo you should check out the “Tokyo. Ten” exhibition at Meguro’s recently renewed and super trendy boutique hotel – Claska. The show, which runs to July 27th, is the brainchild of W + K Tokyo Lab – a curious hybrid label specializing in music and visuals.
Trembled Blossoms
What do Prada, actress Minami and Laforet Shopping mall in Harajuku have in common? The most original dress ever seen in a sleepy Aoyama town, that’s what…
Dark Fantasies
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.
All Bought Up by Tokyo
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.
Selling Fruits to the World
Shoichi Aoki has brought Japanese street fashion to the eyes of the world.
The Two Faces of Takashi Murakami
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.
Colors Like Fluttering Butterflies
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.
Romance on the Streets
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.
Sex, Violence and Funny Jokes
The work of Japanese Illustrator Tsutomu Nagashima (1974), known on the streets as Keroman, at first seems disturbing and confusing.
100% Pure Osaka Street Funk
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.
More Fun on the Computer
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.
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