Hisashi Okawa is an artist living and working in Tokyo. Her illustrations appear very simple and naïve. Her colourful, dotted-eyed (à la Opie) … [Read more...]
Tanaka Ryohei’s Deserted Etchings
Tanaka Ryohei is one of the most important contemporary etching artist in Japan. Born in 1933 in Takatsuki City (Osaka Prefecture), he studied etching … [Read more...]
Seventy ‘Tana’ or ‘Tokowaki’ Variations, in Tetsuro Yoshida’s ‘The Japanese House’ (1935)
Japanese architect Tetsuro Yoshida (1894–1956) was a key figure of architectural interchange between East and West during the early 1930's. … [Read more...]
Drawing the Naked City: Shohei Manabe
What is striking in the precise drawings of the japanese comic artist Manabe Shohei is their ability to immediately express the feeling of a street or … [Read more...]
Images of a Changing World: Settai Komura (1887–1940)
Settai Komura (1887–1940) was a refined yet prolific Shin Hanga artist. As a kabuki stage set designer, he produced around 200 works. He also was an … [Read more...]
Tsunehisa Kimura’s Digital Apocalypse
Tsunehisa Kimura (1928-2008) was a Japanese artist, specialized in photomontage. His works usually depict scenes of surreal destruction, caused by … [Read more...]
Penal Colony by Yoko Ono & Arata Isozaki (2004)
SEASON OF GLASS spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance autumn passes and one … [Read more...]
Yoichiro Kamei, Ceramic Works
We're sorry for the recent problems of access to Socks, but we experienced an unexpected burst of traffic that overcame our web-hosting capabilities. … [Read more...]
Expo 1970 Osaka: the inaugural ceremony
This is a half an hour video of the inaugural ceremony of the most important Expo in the XXth Century. Via: machizukuri.tumblr.com … [Read more...]
Kazutaka Miyatake’s Space Ships
Kazutaka Miyatake is an anime designer known for the mechanical design of the Macross TV and Space Battleship … [Read more...]
Japan, dark spring 2011
Christoph Niemann for the New Yorker … [Read more...]
Michael Vlasopoulos just bought a capsule in K.Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
From Abitare, Via: the Funambulist. This is a manifesto about K. Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) in Tokyo, adopting the first-person view … [Read more...]
From AE 2010: Braun Tube Jazz Band
Or: Nam June Paik meets Pan Sonic. One of the most amazing performance we attented during the festival was this piece by Japanese artist / composer … [Read more...]
Back from Ars Electronica / Linz: “It’s too late to be a pessimist” *
We are back from Linz and so, so impressed. Despite still being overwhelmed by ideas, imagination and people from this edition of the world's most … [Read more...]
Weird but funny commercials
Don't say no to panda, the supermarket httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLp8Cssh_M Don't say no to panda, the … [Read more...]
Obrist interviews Maeda
On Klat > interviews. More on John Maeda. … [Read more...]
Melting bananas
Not everybody knows that our beloved Melt Banana (the one band you play at a party when you want people to leave) sports an eclectic range of cover … [Read more...]
Kids ♥ SANAA
After the parkour on BIG's mountain dwelling in Copenaghen, and the trial on Snøhetta’s Opera House in Oslo, here you can find another “extreme” sport … [Read more...]
Koki Tanaka: works of a contemporary Japan artist
Koki Tanaka youtube channel Koki Tanaka website … [Read more...]
More Robots on The Big Picture
Scientists, students and corporations continue their work around the world in the field of robotics, persistently improving and redefining their … [Read more...]
Motoi Yamamoto
Motoi Yamamoto works with salt. … [Read more...]
We ♥ Katamari (and We ♥ Tunng)
"Katamari Damacy is the title of an extremely strange, quirky game made exclusively for the PlayStation 2. The game begins with the King of The … [Read more...]
