Terrible photos, but this toilet was seen here:  http://crewest.com/

Takamatsu City Shikoku:

Heard he is coming to OZ/NZ later this year so a bit of a heads up for those that might not be familiar with what he does.

DJ Baku (Bio lifted from Hearjapan.com)

“An ever prolific indie/alternative DJ and track-maker, DJ BAKU’s foundation is Hip Hop with a healthy dose of turntablism. His highly-acclaimed mix series released on his own label, DIS-DEFENSE DISC, has become something of a collector’s item. In June 2006, he released his long-awaited first album, “SPINHEDDZ” on POPGROUP Recordings, which reached No. 1 on the Tower Records Indie chart. Later in the same year, he performed with D-Style, Kid Koala and Q-Bert. In December that year, DJ BAKU joined forces with the legendary Guitar Wolf, releasing the single, “ULTRA CROSS Vol. 3”, on Sony Music. In 2007, BAKU embarked on a new project, assuming the alias, “Noizd Phank”, incorporating a variety of artists like Bug (ex Techno Animal) to do remixes.
Lastly, in 2008 will see the release of DJ BAKU’s second album, “Dharma Dance”. Along with his forte, sampling, BAKU has introduced the usage of guitar, bass, drums, and Chinese stringed instruments like the er hu, as well as a diverse range other natural/acoustic instruments in his new album”

Spin Headz is somewhat of a masterpiece:

http://www.hearjapan.com/store/album_info/Spinheddz

and his second recently released album “Dharma Dance” is a lot rockier but has some fine tunes no doubt.

http://www.disdefensedisc.com
http://www.myspace.com/djbakujapan

Is fairly darn inspiring. The prolific illustrator is art director of Pop Group recordings and half of the duo “Dark Funk Spot”

mo’ info/work:

http://www.pop-group.net/epr/

Just got back from mastering with the colour corrected final version of the video for “Innocent Shonen Boy” by SONPUB (A Bathing Ape Sounds/ Universal Japan).

The idea for the video was a bright, blue sky backdropped, slo mo video seemingly not shot in Japan. It all sort of came together in the end despite a bunch of logistical nightmares. (The main one being that the shoot was on one of the greyest, overcast days in memory!!)

Music wise the song is a bit of a poppier excursion for Sonpub (maybe its just the inclusion of the female vocal that pushes it over the edge) but check out his other bits and bobs at:

http://www.sonpub.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sonpub

I found this little Yoshitomo Nara + graf collabo Sake box set in a pretty unasuming bottleshop round my way. It contains 3 glasses of Sake all with pics by Nara himself, I think the package is supposed to resemble a Dogs house.

It makes a pretty nice desk piece but I am pretty worried that I will crack it open soon enough……