So many of you have been asking, “whats up with Nice Produce version 2”, “it’s been well over a year that you’ve been promising the update”, “why are you guys such a lazy pack of c*nts?”

Well the truth is that the site IS in fact coming along, albeit mighty slowly. The main reasons is that Nice Produce genius coding WunderKind, Karl Stanton has been busy posing for nerd industry tech mags as the “Downsizing poster boy” and enjoying all the drugs, parties and womens that comes with the position.

Note the gradient square escaping top right… this is his mind leaving his head to find a bar at the exact moment of photography.

Mid Feb at the latest people, and it’ll be better than anything you can imagine. We had to divert power to finish the LTRHDS site and a new site which is launching in Feb. The 90% finished Nice 2.0 will be up and running before you know it.

On another Note. www.LTRHDS.com is up. Check it out and keep checking it’s blog for interviews.

So, so, so, very dope.

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Actually was at this gig earlier in the year.

Bill Laswell presents Tokyo rotation 2009. Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn 2009, may 1st. 3rd night of the Tokyo Rotation with Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Dj Krush and Hideo Yamaki. Band Website http://www.tokyorotation.com/

Enjoy

Some recent work by Kami and Sasu.
The influential husband and wife team whose abstract minimalism and focus on architectural interaction is at the heart of Tokyo’s graffiti community.
Check out their blogs.

Kami’s Blog.
Sasu’s Blog.

For the past 3 years gallery 1988 in L.A has been paying tribute to some of the cultural pillars supporting the roof of our artistic world. Stan Lee, The Beasty Boys, and this year….. He Man. Inviting 100 artists to submit art for the toy line so dear to us all 1988 has put together a rare insight into eternity and the shinanigans of The Master of the Universe.

Here’s a preview of images i’ve managed to gleam randomly off the net. Hopefully will have some more once the show launches this Friday.

Jeff Boyes

Ayami Kawashima

N.C Winters

The good, The Bad and the Ugly. Alex Fugazi

Dave Perillo

Bill Carmen

It’ll be launching this Friday at 1988, 7020 Melrose Ave L.A.

These just arrived in the mail, cheers.

Hidden Champion, quarterly Tokyo mag, covering the Hidden Champions of culture. One of the dopest free press in Tokyo. H.C produced the limited edition KR issue for the Levis launch with a deadline so tight that it entered the realm of quantum physics. Check their site here.

Hoping to get a limited quantities of these mag each drop for some Australian distro.

Donno, we’ll see.

click to zoom.

Seeing as The GasLamp Killer will be playing the after party for the LTRHDS exhibition in Feb 2010 and the fact that The Flying Lotus played at the opening of the first LTRHDS show so many years ago this mix seems too good to be true. Enjoy. Hope you all have a good new years.

A Decade of Flying Lotus (mixed by GLK): Download (11703)

Thanks to the guys at Brainfeeder

Hermes window display by Japanese conceptual designer Tokojin Yoshioka. on display Nov 19, 2009 ~ Jan 19, 2010 Maison Hermès (ginza5-4-1, chuo-ku, tokyo)

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Japanese calligrapher Gen Myamura will be launching an exhibition in SferaExhibition in Kyoto next month. Gen’s work including continual collaboration with designer Shun Kawakami is a contemporary interpretation and constantly evolving deconstruction of his classical calligraphic training. This should be a incredible show.

Hopefully i’ll be able to bring you some photos early next year.

GEN MIYAMURA NEWWORKS 2010 by artless
2010/1.3(sun)-1.31(sun)
11:00-20:00 [Close:Wed]
at SferaExhibition (KYOTO) >>www.ricordi-sfera.com

This is a great short interview with Futura by Spine TV at his recent exhibition: Odyssey Two in Berlin