Tokyo and Sendai based visual design studio WOW launched a new project called “WOW id project“, in which each designer from WOW draws out their own individuality by featuring their new video works created with their own personal touch. Read more…
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.
- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
- Twitter Plaza / Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Kosuke Kawase “Bearings Glocken II”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Lawrence Malstaf “Nemo Observatorium”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Ei Wada “Braun Tube Jazz Band”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- David Bowen “growth modeling device”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Magico Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakamura, Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland “Hibi no Neiro”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Makoto Yukimura “VINLAND SAGA”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- © Yukimura Makoto/Kodansha / “VINLAND SAGA”
- Takahiro Yamaguchi “Urbanized Typeface : Shibuya08-09″/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Reading manga/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- © Alvaro CASSINELLI / Alvaro CASSINELL, MANABE Daito, KURIBARA Yusaku, Alexis ZERROUG “scoreLight”
- © Junghwan Sung / Junghwan SUNG representing Mr. Lee Experiment creative team “Mr. Lee Experiment”
- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
Welcome to the world of red, white and black pixels…
Known as one of the leading Japanese pixel designers, TEN aka ten_do_ten has just released his new book entitled: “CALM & PUNK Book #1 ten_do_ten” and hosted an exhibition to celebrate the book launch last December.
- CALM & PUNK Book “#1 ten_do_ten” / Cover
- CALM & PUNK Book “#1 ten_do_ten” / Zebra
- CALM & PUNK Book “#1 ten_do_ten” / Nude
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Naoshi Usuda
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Naoshi Usuda
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Naoshi Usuda
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Kayo Tamura
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Kayo Tamura
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Kayo Tamura
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Kayo Tamura
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Kayo Tamura
- The ten_do_ten exhibition “Female nude and picture book craft paintching!” at CALM & PUNK Galley Photo: Kayo Tamura
The Flash festival FITC Tokyo 2009, was held in Japan for the first time last year.
One of the largest and longest running events of its kind in the world, FITC covers everything from Flash design, to motion design, creative inspiration, to other technologies like Flex, Air and processing. The festival, now in its’ eighth year, has toured through ten cities and five countries, with over 700 presentations and over 10,000 attendees annually.
- Entrance at FITC Tokyo 2009 / Photo: FITC Tokyo 2009
- Presentation by Lee Brimelow “Sneak Peek of Max 2009″ / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
- Audience at FITC Tokyo 2009 / Photo: FITC Tokyo 2009
- Presentation by Keith Peters “Making Things Move”/ Photo: FITC Tokyo 2009
- Presentation by Mario Klingemann “Connecting the Dots” / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
- Presentation by Grant Skinner “Quick as a Flash” / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
- Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
- Presentation by Joshua Hirsch “Big Spaceship: Digital Creative Agency” / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
- Finale at FITC Tokyo 2009 / Photo: Kayo Tamura
Japanese company Delaware, who designed the “Re<ords” music application for iPhone and iPodTouch a year ago, have released the latest version, which now includes Low Power by Hajime Tachibana, The END and a collaborative piece with Delaware and Tota Hasegawa of Tomato.
Re<ords is a record label as well as a record player application that just exists in iPhone/iPodTouch. With the application, you can enjoy spin, zoom, scratch and turn over the body to flipping the virtual vinyl.
- Records 003 Delaware – SPACE SPA / HOME+OWN
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Isn’t it rad the sheer quantity of weird shit you can find on the internet, particularly art these days. There’s so many weirdos out there doing any number of sick things to themselves (or insects), for the sake of art. Take the Dead Fly art for example, some bored asshole had too much time on his hands so he decided to gather a bunch of fly’s, kill them, then position them in any number of sick fetish positions, photograph it, and post it on the internet. I mean to be honest they’re pretty f**ken funny, my personal favourite is the dead fly riding a horse (above) – hilarious – but if there’s people out there doing this sort of art, it makes you wonder what some of the real weirdos are doing (and when do we get to see)?
By the way, I tried to track down the Dead Fly weirdo to credit these photos, but couldn’t find the little bugger anywhere. So if anyone knows who it might be, please comment on this one and help me out (I think he might be Swedish). At the very least I’d like to find out how he gathered the fly’s, but for now we can only hope they died of natural causes (fat chance)…







































































