Viewing items with Tag: "art"

Released on July 4th as straight to DVD and Bluray, Ghibli's latest movie is a partnership with the artist Inoue, who also worked on the arty sequences in "Whisper of the Heart". Details about the plot of Iblard are sketchy, and the best I could find was:

A project about Inoue’s imaginary world Iblard. Fragments of forgotten memories... Nostalgic days that are sure to come again... Iblard is made of such elements.

You can check out the trailer and try to decipher more youself, over at the official website @ iblardjikan.jp

Flicking through Kotaku I found this cool image of the Street Fighter crew and others chowing down in an Udon store run by none other than Edmund Honda. Class. I love street fighter, I love anime, and I have come to love udon, so 3 out of 3!

The image is from a soon to be published 300+ page book featuring loads of Capcom characters, by publisher Udon Entertainment. This teaser image and the name of the artists gives me the impression that they will all be eating udon, but I could be wrong... anyway, looks pretty cool to me.

Aya Kato was born only 5 days before me, but she seems to have achieved a great deal more in the art world.

From ipod covers...



to chocolate...



to a current outdoor art exhibition in Barcelona.



Her website's pretty good too. ayakato.net

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A story related to this one was also recently submitted by aniki, here are the details:

The latest fashion wave to hit Japan is the ... face-mask. Soon to be released "Mask Musume" DVD features a ton of your regular cosplay goodness, with the added bonus of every girl wearing a face-mask with varying designs. I do hope there's a kitty mask in there somewhere, that would just be *adorable*. Personally, I think anyone into face-masks is obviously a closet masochist, and might wanna consider going for the full on gag. Be sure to look out for this title on your favorite JAV torrent sites!

Story source: Secret Japan

Kikko: Honeycomb Pencil



From a 90's art exhibition with carvings by Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado.


Ball-joint Pencil



Sidewards Pencil



The info's kind of in Engrish, but there are more pencil designs at JAD Project.

Junko Terashima makes funny bento lunches for her kids.



Justin puts them together on his blog.



...and adds poems.

This is a 7 minute documentary of Stephen Wiltshire - The 'Human Camera' - on a trip to Tokyo. Stephen is an autistic guy from London who draws things from memory and especially likes skyscrapers. Here, he takes a 30 minute helicopter ride over Tokyo then spends a week drawing the city from memory. The final work is a 360 degree panorama that's 10 meters long. Click play to see how accurate it looks...



Stephen has more work and stories at his site stephenwiltshire.co.uk.

Keisuke Kishi has a nice website of pre-"Spirited Away" art, including 360 degree views around this and other sculptures.



"Ministry of Mystic Machines" is a collection of Japanese style figurative art work which are set in the imaginary world of alternate reality that is much like the Edo period. (Japan,the early 17th century to the middle of 19th century.)


His "Piratto" sculpture kinda looks like that ice fish they just found in Antarctica, doesn't it?