Yoshitomo Nara...

Yoshitomo Nara is a miraculous artist. He liberates me tremendously. He holds a gentle warmth within his work but also magnifies a bellowing aggression discordantly.  I find myself narcissistic to his characters. They are innocently and emotionally translucent, haunting with smug eyes and unclear intentions. Frightfully endearing. 

My desire is to create canvases in a similar manner.

Dead Leaves...

This is the trippiest film i have ever seen in my entire life. Despite being undoubtedly sober when first watching it, by the end, i actually started questioning whether i had taken some form of narcotics because it just made no fucking sense. I cannot fully express how awesome it actually is. I never thought there would be a human being on this planet that could conjure up such farcical, west things like a dude with a drill as a dick, crazy robot pregnancy-inducing sex, mixed with a shit load of guns, gore and big fucking explosions, and actually managing to pull it off. Surprising how i actually get my ha-has out of this kind of thing. I recommend seeing it for yourself...

oh yeah, and it's got one sick soundtrack...

Sex, Bondage and the Japanese...

Photographer - Ken-Ichi Murata...

Midori Goto...

I have always been a fan of classical music. Just recently i have had a sincere craving to try something new, to learn something new i wouldn't have even thought of trying, and i've just been looming over the idea of practicing the violin. A strange choice i know, especially out of the blue. Over the years i've just had a really keen likeness towards the instrument and seen many prodigies and proteges who look so expressive when they play it. They look magnificently infused by their own playing. 


One of my good friends recommended a certain entrepeneur of the classical instrument called Midori Goto. The mastery of the violin she possesses is under no doubt extraordinary. Some of the scores she has learned and adopted are almost beyond physical levels of ability. It has been recorded that Ravel, a famous composer, who wrote the score Tzigane, expressed doubts as to whether certain passages were actually playable within his own  piece. At the age of just 19, Midori performed at Carnegie Hall and perfectly played Tzigane that is tearfully beautiful, not a note is missed. 

She is quite an inspiration to start learning myself but i think we'll see...

Here she is at her best...

Chiho Aoshima...

Now this girl really takes the piss...as you may not have guessed, the majority of her work is created using the incredibly fist-clenchingly annoying tool of Bezier curves on Adobe Illustrator. I find it unbearable to even contemplate how long and soul-destroying these kinds of pieces must take to produce, as if i were to dare attempt something of such calibre i think i'd end up cutting my tongue off. Fair play to her as they play perfectly to the themes of her imagination. There is consistent use of certain elements such as ghosts, zombies and schoolgirls that are exquisitely organic inhibiting the beautiful landscapes she illuminates. She is very good at what she does...plus she has a nice face.

Kenji Hirata

After some very kind website recommendations from fellow classmates, i was hunting through http://www.coolhunting.com/, and came across this wonderfully psychedelic graphical artist. His use of colour and shape combined and recombined is abstractively illuminating. He's just like a digital Pollock. I just wish i had discovered him a few weeks ago as in accordance to the recent projects we have been working on, i think these would have altered my perception slightly of what to undertake. Entrancing...

never thought i'd see the day...

with all this contextual studies mumbo-jumbo looming over my head...i decided to weep my way into a lost attempt of post-modernistic discovery online...my smile fluttered when clicking through link-after-link of Japanese blog bon mots and miraculously finding this...need i say more...i am happy!

ink me please...

tattoo-worthy?...i think so...
sleeve perhaps...
minor alterations on the girls methinks...and better colour palette...
and ho-ho, we got a fire...!!

design from Rin Nadeshico...(lovely stuff)