[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJdbIALsMYQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

There is nothing better than watching right wing journos making tremendous fools of themselves.

Just goes to show that you can get political through art without reverting into a self righteous pussy hippy clutching a folder full of George Bush stencils. Saber rules.

Jet Set Graffiti.

So, so, so, very dope.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFnSPespbc[/youtube]

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.

Friday the 22nd at THC.

SHINGANIST www.shinganist.com
SHINGANIST blog shinganist.blogspot.com
SHINGANIST store shinganist.ocnk.net

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.

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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)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyNHJQzn3pw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

A members of  Takashi Murakami’s Kaikia Kiki ,  Aya Takano blends Manga, pop and science fiction into an innocently erotic vision of her sometimes hectic Japanese surroundings into some truly amazing artwork. Images and video cutesy of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_1oDlKsKc[/youtube]

“Swim” 2006
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
28 3/4 x 35 3/4 Inches / 72,8 x 91 cm
1/1

“Summoning her owls, she looked yonder. The buildings shone.” 2007
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
6.4 x 8.5 Feet / 194 x 259 cm / 194 x 259 cm
1/1

“The code of the wild, and the tremendous face of clouds.” 2007
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
5.11 x 7.5 Feet / 181,8 x 227,3 cm
1/1

“Truck F” 2006
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
23 3/4 x 28 3/4 Inches / 60,5 x 73 cm
1/1

“Noshi and Megu, on Earth, year 2036” 2002
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
35 3/4 x 29 inches / 91 x 73,5 cm
1/1

“Kyoto sky” 2004
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
51 1/4 x 63 3/4 Inches / 130 x 162 cm
1/1

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

Infographic currency designs by Tokyo designer, Mac Funamizu,

Has a kind of MGS feel to it.