This Saturday.

Haven’t done a street wear post for a good while and ordinarily try and avoid them like the plague but this is an exception.

KR has designed a collaborative range for Levis and it’ll be launching at Cinch store on November the 14th in Aoyama, I’ll be heading to Tokyo for a couple of weeks for it and to catch up with crew. The denim jacket is bad ass. More news on this soon.

The LTRHDS (letterheads) exhibition explores the flexibility of the English alphabet in contemporary art by bringing together 26 esteemed artists from different parts of the world and from difference artistic disciplines; graphic, comic, fine, illustration, tattoo, graffiti, asking them to interpret a single letter each to make up an exhibition of the English alphabet.

I don’t know how many of you remember the first letterheads show way back in 06, in a space we opened called Wooden Shadow, my memory of the whole event is hazy, epic party, awesome show, one of the first international gigs by Flying Lotus. 4 years on the 2010 show promises to match the awesomeness in every way.

LTRHDS lineup in order of appearance.

Graeme Base / Mark Bode / SheOne / Shun Kawakami / Craig (KR) Costello / Meggs / Shohei Otomo / James Reka / Greg (SP.ONE) Lamarche / Mr Jago / Kami / Luca ionescu / Anthony Lister / Kid Zoom / Sasu / Sync / James (Jagi) Greenaway / Scott (Bonsai) Neo / Usugrow & Bene / TwoOne / Kano One7two / Shohei Takasaki / Phibs / French / Yusk / Puzle

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Shun is the master.

balloon as vase / shun kawakami + EDP from shun kawakami on Vimeo.

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Motoin Graphic by WOW Tiokyo Artworks by shun kawakami(artless) Music by Masato Hatanaka

Jun Kaneko/ Fukushima, Japan

Born 1976.  Withered plants, rusted steel scrap, weathered walls, soot and smoke,
blasting, two dimensions, Gothic , architecture, fairy tales,  evolution, punk,  friends and family…

Juns Website

artwork by shun kawakami (artless)
balloon by daisy ballon
calligraphy by gen miyamura
photography by yuu kawakami

TwoOne “So Far”

A short review by Sean.

After his first successful solo exhibition, 1000 cans, TwoOne has returned with a vast, equally ambitious and exciting body of work for his new show “So Far”.

Filling the entire gallery space are hanging installation works of various size and shape, all with painted motifs of god-like animals, patterns and bones. Instantly you are drawn into the mysterious teachings of TwoOne’s gritty spirituality and there is a sense of wandering through a hallucination. There is beauty and warmth in the earthy tones of paint, flow in the playful lines and forms of the gesturing animals and figures, and a curious contrast in the triangle shaped boards and compartments that house metal parts and images of bones, spines and skulls.

As if on the road to seeking an East-Asian old world spiritual deity, “So Far” exhibits TwoOne’s discoveries thus far.  A massive dream catching satellite dish channels thoughts and visions to the walls as clinical compartmentalised boxes. Each is made of found wood and board, discarded and or used skateboard parts, wire and bottles of noxious liquids. Everything that was used along the road now becomes part of his spiritual collections. Skate trucks become a spine, a tense wire becomes a sinewy tendon, worn down wheels form the cells of travel weary flesh. There is something very fragile and human about it all. Each object been chosen, categorized and enshrined with a painted animal, looking over or intertwining with the object like a guardian protecting sacred treasure.

TwoOne’s exhibition “So Far” is currently showing at he No Vacancy gallery, off Jane Bell Ave. 3rd Level QV building until 27th September.

For further information and gallery opening hours, visit the gallery website; http://www.no-vacancy.com.au/twoone.html or Two One at twooneelephant.com

Split heads by Shohei Takasaki at plsmis gallery in Aoyama.

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New on Shohie’s blog.

ball point pen.. yeah you heard me, ball point pen on paper.