The Artsy Kappa

anabargagli: Orchid hunter, floral experimenter, wall...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:39:49 +0200

Orchid hunter, floral experimenter, wall typographer

A look into the novel orchid workshop of Yoichiro Uchida, in Fukuoka Japan. An interesting concept, and a beautiful mise en forme. One of my favorite blogs PingMag did a very nice article on him that you can read here. It’s worth a look! Also, you can find his workshop tumblr here. Enjoy!

anabargagli: Japanese pakaging at it’s greatest. Kokeshi...

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:56:57 +0200

anabargagli:

Japanese pakaging at it’s greatest. Kokeshi Matches created by Kumi Hirasaka

anabargagli: Sci-fi book covers by japanese artist Yuko...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:26:17 +0200

anabargagli:

Sci-fi book covers by japanese artist Yuko Shimizu. What’s not to love? I’m always so impressed by Yuko’s work, go and check it out if you haven’t yet!

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Wed, 01 May 2013 21:59:04 +0200

shougong: Back in September, I attended the Textile Society of...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:28:41 +0200

"Fields of Indigo", Kranner Art Museum. Photo from: http://www.rickettsindigo.com/rowland/InstallationSlides/Krannert/KrannertSlide01.html

I am Ai, We are Ai. http://www.iamai.jp/index.html

I am Ai, We are Ai http://awaai-iamai-en.blogspot.com/2012/09/yoshida-house-wakimachi.html

I am Ai, We are Ai http://www.iamai.jp/en/ido.html

shougong:

Back in September, I attended the Textile Society of America’s 13th Biennial Symposium, Textiles and Politics. One presentation I looked forward to was Rowland Rickett’s “Pastoral or Political? Art/Work, Public Engagement, and Indigo Farming”. I’ve posted before about Rowland Ricketts’ work here, and his recent projects are just as exciting. IndiGrowing Blue, as described on the project’s Facebook page

is a participatory art project that through the growing and processing of Japanese indigo (Polygonum tinctorium) aims to explore our relationship to our raw materials and the environment from which they come.

IndiGrowing Blue started in 2010 and is ongoing, with special events organized around the transplanting, harvesting, and processing of the indigo.

He shared photos of himself and the local community harvesting indigo in Bloomington, and went on to discuss the exhibit “Fields of Indigo” at the Kranner Art Museum. Fresh indigo plants were brought into galleries and hung to dry to demonstrate their change in color, and dried plants carpeted the floor of another gallery for visitors to participate in winnowing the leaves from the plants (see first photo above).

The gallery had a live sound stream set up, which tied in with sound streams in the indigo field in Bloomington and another in Tokushima, Japan on the webpage of related project, “I am Ai, We are Ai” (ai being Japanese for indigo). In Japan, traditional indigo dyers were invited to choose their favorite shade and dye a length of cloth. The lengths were cut up and put on display in locations that were once important to the indigo trade, but might now be parking lots or malls. Visitors were invited to cut a circle of their favorite shade and create a button to wear. The strips of dyed cloth with their many holes were left up for the determined period of time, gaining more holes as new visitors arrived. Rowland Ricketts wore the button covered in his favorite cloth to his presentation for the TSA Symposium.

ruineshumaines: For nearly a decade since the late 1970s...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:22:15 +0200

ruineshumaines:

For nearly a decade since the late 1970s artist Takanori Aiba worked as a maze illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE. The following decade he worked as an architect and finally in 2003 decided to merge the two crafts—the design of physical space and the drawing of labyrinths—into these incredibly detailed tiny worlds. Using craft paper, plastic, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and other materials Aiba constructs sprawling miniature communities that wrap around bonsai trees, lighthouses, and amongst the cliffs of nearly vertical islands. I would love to visit every single one of these places, if only I was 6 feet shorter. See more of Aiba’s work here.

"If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:52:12 +0200

“If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object can be said to be wabi-sabi…it nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

- (via windupwords)

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:32:11 +0200

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:28:14 +0200

kameliendame: aya takano

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:26:28 +0200

kameliendame:

aya takano

Takashi Murakami is making his debut as director with Jellyfish...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:39:30 +0200

Takashi Murakami is making his debut as director with Jellyfish Eyes (めめめのくらげ) ; a full length film that combines live action with Murakami’s iconic animation style.

Having recently lost his father, young Masashi moves with his mother to a small city in the Japanese countryside. But when he discovers that their new apartment is already inhabited by a pint-sized, gravity-defying creature, Masashi begins to pull back the curtain on this sleepy town and finds that very little is what it appears to be.

karahogudiary: 開催まであと3日！【Homeward Journey...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:57:12 +0200

karahogudiary:

開催まであと3日！

【Homeward Journey vol.3　帰路】

ライブドローイングします。

フライヤーデザイン担当しました。

さらに、当日出演するアーティストasyl.が会場で初シングルを発表。そのジャケットデザインも担当してますよー。

I will participate as live drawing artist.

and, I did the design of the flyer.

and, opening act, “asyl.” unveils its first single at the venue. I was the design of the CD cover.

/ untangle.（からみほぐし研究所）

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karamiboard:

いよいよ、開催まであと3日！

karahogudiary:

第3弾開催決定！

” Homeward Journey vol.3 帰路 “

2013年04月21日（日）

open 16:30 start 17:30

前売り　3,000円（カレー付）

会場：　明賢寺　福島県いわき市好間町下好間字大館294

☆1月20日　チケット発売！☆
＊ローソンチケット　TEL：0570-084-002 (Lコード：29746)
＊e+ URL：http://eplus.jp
＊SONIC店頭

3月31日SOLD OUT
（＊主催者の判断により会場の定員80名を大幅に越えていますので早めのご来場をおすすめします｡駐車場の確認もお忘れなく｡）

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2012年9月にvol.1を開催した、いわき市好間のお寺でのイベントの第3弾が開催決定！！

会場は前回と同じいわき市『明賢寺（みょうけんじ）』

前回にひきつづき、お寺の本堂で鳴り響くユザーンのタブラは必聴☆必見！

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さらに今回は、環ROY（ラッパー）と蓮沼執太（電子音楽家）との3人によるコラボレーション！！3人がお寺の本堂で起こす化学反応に期待が膨らむ。

OpeningActには、いわき市の注目インストバンド「asyl.」と、シンガーソングライター「サカモトトシユキ」が参加。そして、ライブドローイングではuntangle.（からみほぐし研究所ドローイング作家）が今回もからむ。

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さらにさらに、会場内の空間演出にいわき市出身の佐藤文（花のたまむし）が所属するユニット「tomacai」

会場外のシャボン玉演出に杉山修一（ゼリーのイエ）、

会場撮影にいわき市在住のフォトグラファー鈴木譲蔵、

カレーはいわき市平にあるイタリア料理「カノヴァア・アズーロ」

と、いわき市内外でそれぞれ活躍しているメンバーが参加！！

前回のvol.1とは音楽も会場の雰囲気も変わり、どのような空間と時間ができあがるのか、乞うご期待！！

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** 今回も、からみほぐし研究所／untangle.がフライヤーデザインを担当しました。当日はライブドローイングで参加します！

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会期：2013年04月21日（日）

open 16:30 start 17:30

前売り：3,000円（カレー付） ※入場時にドリンク代別途500円かかります。　／小学生以下無料
会場：明賢寺　福島県いわき市好間町下好間字大館294

問合せ　club SONIC iwaki 電話0246-35-1199　/ mail: sonic-iwaki@sonic-project.com

＊駐車場のご案内＊

会場の明賢寺の駐車場は25台分ございますが、早着順で満車になり次第臨時駐車場へとご案内させて頂きます。

第二駐車場：大宝寺(だいほうじ)さん駐車場
いわき市平字大館34
※明賢寺の隣のお寺さんです
※徒歩約１分

第三駐車場：菩提院(ぼだいいん)さん駐車場
いわき市平字古鍛冶町59
※やびな市でもお馴染みの菩提院さんは明賢寺の二軒隣です
※徒歩約５分

早めにご確認頂き、可能でしたらなるべく乗り合わせてご来場下さい。また、各駐車場、各参道ではお静かにお願いしますね。

みなさまのご来場を心からお待ちしてます！

☆ 環ROY　HP

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☆ ユザーン　HP

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☆Homeward Journey 帰路ウェブサイト

 http://homewardjourney.businesscatalyst.com/index.html

☆Homeward Journey 帰路facebookページ

 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Homeward-Journey-帰路

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Live event

2013.04.21(sun)

coming !!

からみほぐし研究所のinfoにも掲載しています。

http://karahogu.wix.com/untangle#!info/czxx

miyabi-iki: Long Spell of Rain by Tsuchiya Koitsu

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:51:20 +0200

miyabi-iki:

Long Spell of Rain by Tsuchiya Koitsu

eastasianstudiestumbl: Takahiro Iwasaki. Metaphrase...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:49:16 +0200

eastasianstudiestumbl:

Takahiro Iwasaki. Metaphrase Scenery.2001.

I know the whole point is this is supposed to be based on the 平等院 (Byodo-in) and = Buddhist imagery analysis ensues. But… That all aside I like how it’s dream-like quality or even just how it would be seen as a reflection in a pond. SOUND OF WATER… *BASHO FTW*

GAME BLOUSES…(sorry I’m obsessed with saying that atm)

megasupreme: SUPERFLAT!!! Oh wait, we see a brush stroke...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:47:43 +0200

megasupreme:

SUPERFLAT!!! Oh wait, we see a brush stroke Takashi!

Japanese Illustrator and Digital Artist

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:06:53 +0200

Japanese Illustrator and Digital Artist:

anabargagli:

For those of you who love colorful portraits, Snnnn’s tumblr will leave you amazed. He’s a great source of inspiration for me, and I hope it’ll make you smile. Check out these drawings, both digital and paper sketches. The artist has a strong manga influence in his work, visible especially in his portraits “au trait”. Wonderful color work too.

sundayjump: Comic by Shigeru Sugiura Serie Doron Chibimaru Le...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:53:14 +0200

sundayjump:

Comic by Shigeru Sugiura

Serie Doron Chibimaru Le Petit Ninja [BDNET.COM]

Shiraae is a traditional tofu dish in which various ingredients...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:24:10 +0200

Shiraae is a traditional tofu dish in which various ingredients are mixed with seasoned mashed tofu.

- 150g Firm tofu or soft tofu (5.3 oz)
- 1/2 tsp Dashing soy sauce
Or substitute mentsuyu or soy sauce
- 2 tbsp Toasted white sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 1/4 tsp Salt

- 100g Nanohana also known as broccolini
Or substitute broccoli, snap bean pods or spinach (3.5 oz)
- 20g Carrot (0.7 oz)
- 30g Shimeji mushrooms (1 oz)
- 4 tbsp Water
- 1/2 tsp Dashi soy sauce
Or substitute mentsuyu or soy sauce

SAKAMOTO Ryuichi performing Thousand Knives live on his Europe...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:23:17 +0100

SAKAMOTO Ryuichi performing Thousand Knives live on his Europe tour

Kohei Nawa, who I previously wrote about, is currently holding a...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:21:38 +0100

Kohei Nawa, who I previously wrote about, is currently holding a solo exhibition entitled ”Direction | TRAUMARIS” at the NADiff A/P/A/R/T building in Shibuya. If you are in Tokyo, I definitely recommend checking out his most recent series of paintings “Direction”, his new sculpture “Trans”, and the symbolic “BEADS”.  The exhibition ends February 3rd.

From Shift:

The composition of the space where different dimensions intersects will provide an unforeseen experience to our senses. The cafe next to the space enables viewers to stay and explore the exhibition from many perspectives. This will be the first public exhibition for both “Direction” and “Trans” to be presented as an installation in a solo exhibition on the East side of Japan.

Date : January 9th – February 3rd, 2013  
Opening hours : 16:00 – 24:00 (Sunday 14:00 – 22:00）
 Closed on Monday
Place: TRAUMARIS | SPACE 
Address: NADiff A/P/A/R/T 3F 1-18-4 Ebisu, Shibuya, Tokyo

The Artsy Kappa

anabargagli: Orchid hunter, floral experimenter, wall...

Orchid hunter, floral experimenter, wall typographer

anabargagli: Japanese pakaging at it’s greatest. Kokeshi...

anabargagli: Sci-fi book covers by japanese artist Yuko...

Photo

shougong: Back in September, I attended the Textile Society of...

ruineshumaines: For nearly a decade since the late 1970s...

"If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual..."

Photo

Photo

kameliendame: aya takano

Takashi Murakami is making his debut as director with Jellyfish...

karahogudiary: 開催まであと3日！ 【Homeward Journey...

miyabi-iki: Long Spell of Rain by Tsuchiya Koitsu

eastasianstudiestumbl: Takahiro Iwasaki. Metaphrase...

megasupreme: SUPERFLAT!!! Oh wait, we see a brush stroke...

Japanese Illustrator and Digital Artist

sundayjump: Comic by Shigeru Sugiura Serie Doron Chibimaru Le...

Shiraae is a traditional tofu dish in which various ingredients...

SAKAMOTO Ryuichi performing Thousand Knives live on his Europe...

Kohei Nawa, who I previously wrote about, is currently holding a...

karahogudiary: 開催まであと3日！【Homeward Journey...