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.
March 3rd, 2010 - sarahp -
These days most jobs come with some type of perk, whether it’s a shiny company car, a blackberry, or even a fat expense account. So what are the perks of working behind a bar? Well the answer is simple, free gigs, yes people ‘FREE’ gigs. As many as a person could want. And if you’re a music slut like me, then there’s no better perk to be had. So keep your company car, cell phone or expense account, I want live music and I want it free!
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March 1st, 2010 - Marisa -
photo by Laura Darlington, via myspace.com/daedelusdarling
Daedelus, Nosaj Thing & Jogger
Le Poisson Rouge, New York City
Let’s preface this MOOKS Report by saying this: Los Angeles producer Daedelus is the most humble, polite and all round chivalrous gentleman in the music biz. And Saturday night not only confirmed our suspicious, but cemented them. There he was, the headlining act, manning the merchandise stand for his relatively new imprint label Magical Properties, all dandy-clothed and armed with gracious smiles.
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February 10th, 2010 - Marisa -
In the notoriously fickle music industry (and amongst what can be even more notoriously fickle music ‘fans’), it’s always exciting to see a deserving band start to receive recognition. This is currently happening to Twin Sister, whose music recently featured on the ‘holier-than-thou’ Pitchfork, which used phrases like “dreamily psychedelic and spacious”, to describe the Brooklyn-based quintet.
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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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January 28th, 2010 - sarahp -
Growing up in the sun-drenched Karoo, amongst little cave crawlies and lanky desert birds that can’t fly, Chris Slabber sees Cape Town as a place of wonder and surprise. Like a kid in a theme park, everything is a joyride. Aside from the “bergie” (homeless dude with a passion gap that is always drunk and shouting “Jou ma se POES” to his/her fellow bergies) waiting around each of Cape Town’s corner, is a world of opportunity and sensory indulgence. Each day comes wrapped in potential.
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