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.
January 31st, 2010 - marikot -
January 29th, 2010 - marikot -

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.
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Entrance at FITC Tokyo 2009 / Photo: FITC Tokyo 2009
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Presentation by Lee Brimelow “Sneak Peek of Max 2009″ / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
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Audience at FITC Tokyo 2009 / Photo: FITC Tokyo 2009
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Presentation by Keith Peters “Making Things Move”/ Photo: FITC Tokyo 2009
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Presentation by Mario Klingemann “Connecting the Dots” / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
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Presentation by Grant Skinner “Quick as a Flash” / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
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Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
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Presentation by Joshua Hirsch “Big Spaceship: Digital Creative Agency” / Photo: FITC TOKYO 2009
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Finale at FITC Tokyo 2009 / Photo: Kayo Tamura
December 18th, 2009 - marikot -
October 20th, 2009 - jono -

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)…
September 8th, 2009 - Easy -

There is a certain magnetism of the city of Berlin. People may arrive for a short visit, spending a few days straddling the saddle of a beaten-up bike, only to leave months or even years later. It seems that the diversity, complexity and unpredictable nature of the city is not only hard to leave, but hard to describe. In the true Berliner spirit of creativity and expressionism, the mammoth project 24h Berlin does a pretty fascinating job at documenting and presenting a day in the life of this weird and wonderful city.
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