Praying for my friends in Japan…
March 16, 2011
12:06 pm
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March 3, 2011
7:32 pm
Moneygami : origami made from currency; the subtle genius lies in the way the artist incorporates the prints on the dollar bills into the facial characteristics of the finished figures.
February 8, 2011
10:21 am
Martin Parr, “The Artificial Beach Inside the Ocean Dome, Miyazaki, Japan
In Small World, published in 1995, Parr tackled mass international tourism, the subject that has most preoccupied him ever since. He has travelled all over the world, even to North Korea, and no longer takes holidays as such. “I just go on work trips with my camera and, sometimes, my wife.” His mission is, again, to combat propaganda. “Tourism is the biggest industry in the world. You can’t ignore it. I like to explore the problem with it, which is the difference between the myth and the reality of the place. The purpose of most travel photography is to sell travel adverts, which doesn’t interest me at all.”
January 31, 2011
8:38 pm
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January 24, 2011
10:00 pm
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Tsukiji: The Great Tokyo Fish Market
Tsukiji moves about five million pounds (2,268,000 kilograms) of seafood every day—seven times as much as Paris’s Rungis, the world’s second largest wholesale market, and 11 times the volume of New York City’s Fulton Fish Market, the largest fish market in North America. In dollar terms, that comes to about (U.S.) 28 million dollars’ worth of fish per day.
From “Tsukiji: The Great Tokyo Fish Market,” November 1995, National Geographic magazine
May 30, 2010
10:29 pm
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April 24, 2010
4:37 pm
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Turning Japanese - Kirsten Dunst (Dir: McG / Takashi Murakami)
In “Akihabara Majokko Princess,” the inspiring collaboration between director McG and artist/producer Takashi Murakami, Kirsten Dunst prances around Japan with a blue wig and a magic wand, singing to the Vapors’ “Turning Japanese.” Art!
I really love Murakami’s universe…
