March 10th, 2010 - marikot -
March 8th, 2010 - marikot -
A record number of visitors attended the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival held in The National Art Center, Tokyo, in February. The 12 day festival was launched in 1997, to promote the creation and development of media arts. This years festival received more than 2,500 works from 54 countries, about 180 award-winning works and jury-recommended works. The festival highlights four art divisions including media based art, entertainment, animation and manga.
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© 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
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Twitter Plaza / Photo: Kayo Tamura
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Kosuke Kawase “Bearings Glocken II”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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Lawrence Malstaf “Nemo Observatorium”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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Ei Wada “Braun Tube Jazz Band”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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David Bowen “growth modeling device”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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Magico Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakamura, Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland “Hibi no Neiro”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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Makoto Yukimura “VINLAND SAGA”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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© Yukimura Makoto/Kodansha / “VINLAND SAGA”
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Takahiro Yamaguchi “Urbanized Typeface : Shibuya08-09″/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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Reading manga/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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© Alvaro CASSINELLI / Alvaro CASSINELL, MANABE Daito, KURIBARA Yusaku, Alexis ZERROUG “scoreLight”
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© Junghwan Sung / Junghwan SUNG representing Mr. Lee Experiment creative team “Mr. Lee Experiment”
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© 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
February 8th, 2010 - marikot -
Strongly inspired by Japanese manga, Fantasista Utamaro creates works across several creative mediums including illustration, textile, graphic design and film production. Examples of Utamaro’s work include an illustration for Tokyo Bar in NY and manga works for mashcomix.
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February 2nd, 2010 - sarahp -
I’m lost in my cold coffee smoking a Marlboro Red, distracted by my happiness. This is a report about a girl living in Cape Town for summer and experiencing a new year. It’s about eating blueberry nerds and getting messy on school nights. It’s about laughter, inspiration and popcorn. Like life, it’s about everything and nothing. Perhaps it’s the endless summer that’s got Cape Town caught in a spell, but for once, I’m a part of it…
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January 31st, 2010 - marikot -
January 29th, 2010 - jessicah -
By Jessica Hazel.
The Women’s Institute (W.I) was first established in 1897 and now has over 205,000 members in the UK alone. The W.I carries a somewhat frumpy reputation and most people imagine a gaggle of old ladies, who meet each week in the village hall to discuss jam making techniques and various health complaints. This is indeed the case, except for a pocket of women from East London who go by the name of the Shoreditch Sisters, who have been tipped as the most glamourous W.I group in the country. I tagged along one Tuesday evening for the first meeting of 2010.
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