By the way…ところで
Do you know Akira Yamaguchi? Well, ever since my landlord showed me a collection of his epic paintings in a book it’s haunted me day and night. Check the book out here.
山口晃さん知っていますか？私の借りてるスタジオのボスが教えてくれました。その時からずっと衝撃を受けてます。是非この本を見てください。kokoda.
The Garden of Painting…
The National Museum of Art in Osaka is having an exhibition gathering the best of the ‘new figurative’ painters : Garden of Painting, Japanese Art of the 00’s. That’s a mouthful. Besides the staple sinister from Nara Yoshimoto, there is some great stuff from O Jun and Aida Makoto. Have a peek at the catalog here. Just wish I could go…
国立国際美術館（大阪）新築移転５周年記念『絵画の庭』が２０１０年４月４日まで開催されています。世界で有名な日本のアーティスト奈良美智、会田誠など総勢２８名の近作、新作合わせて約２００点が展示されています。kokoda.
Harry Clarke…
By chance found a blog with some amazing illustrations by a Mr. Harry Clarke. These are all taken from a collection of stories by Edgar Allen Poe titled; Tales of Mystery and Imagination(1923). Scans and kudos go to A journey round my skull. The images speak for themselves.
The Big Active…
Following the peanuts from one website to another, I stumbled across bigactive.com today. They represent a huge slab of talent and have a great online folio for you to peruse at your leisure. Some big name stuff, but some lesser known but equally as impressive work from artists all over the globe. Nice big tasty link lump.
偶然見つけたサイトthebigactive。沢山のクリエイティヴな人を提供するサイトです。有名or無名アーティスト関係なく世界中の良い作品を紹介している。サンプルもあるし、そこからリンクして色々なアーティストに繋がる。
Your bike is still burnin’ man…
So, as a fan, geek, otaku, whatever, of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira; I have found it very hard to contain my excitement for the new Bandai/Medicom project. Set for release in a few months is a 1/6 scale version of Kaneda’s bike tricked out with twin coil, double rotar ceramic whatsimis and light up displays…and a 30cm articulated figure of the anime’s anti-hero Kaneda. Sadly, this set is strictly for the fanatical weighing in at around 600US for the set…(it’ll eat you up and spit out the seat sport).
昔からずっとアキラのファンなんです。大好きっす。新しい金田のバイクとフィギアがもうすぐ発売する。欲しい。はい、マジ欲しいです。１／６のスケールで登場。この空気感思い出したい人kokoda.
Something curious…
I often visit a site called Changethethought for inspiration and I always find something interesting from the daily updates. Today was Japanese artist Minchi, and the art coming from Hyogo was so good I thought it worth repeating. Here is Minchi’s website and here is the blog. English and Japanese. Fantastic. It’s like Wierd Science with sack fulls of fizzy sherbet. (Kudos to Changethethought, of course).
霊感を養うため、時々このChangethethoughtサイトを見ます。毎日刺激的なアートがたくさんアップされます。今日見つけたのは、日本のアーティストMINCHIさんです。ここはMINCHIさんのサイト。カラフルでとても不思議な世界。キャンディや色々な食べ物と人間の体の中身をうまく融合させて一つのアートを作りだしているね。英語と日本語も書いてるので便利だな。
New, News…
Finished the shrines in space drawing today. Used a lot of black ink in this one. You can see the whole piece and some more detail shots here in the drawing gallery. Got some interesting effects using a white paint pen when touching up mistakes. The pigment is green. Peculiar, considering it’s black ink. Who knew there were so many colours in black…
神社の作品、完成しました〜 墨汁をたくさん使ってペイントしました。
全体的＆細かい所は、ここで。
New, Old news…
Today I took some photographs of a figure I made a few months back. You can find them here. Hopefully, with a bit of luck, I will have this one made in vinyl sometime this year. However, as I have found out, it’s a very costly exercise. I’m sure a lot of folks have probably already seen this one on my flickr before..it’s a character from a series of kaijyu/heroes I made for an exhibition a while back. It kind of feels like I’m really flogging this one now, so I’m going to stop writing about it… but expect more figures soon. The designs can be seen here.
今日は、３ヶ月前に作ったフィギアの写真を撮ってみました。こちらです、どうぞ。今年中にチャンスがあれば、このフィギアをソフビで作りたいとおもいます。誰かお金ちょうだい！（笑）多分、既にflickrで見た方もいると思いますが怪獣seriesのheroです。こちらご覧下さい。何はともあれ、もっとたくさん、このseriesフィギアを作るつもりです！！！
Muscle Pain continued…
Due to snow, postings are lean. Time is spent outside. Today was day 2 of snow shifting day. Two things came to mind during the course of today’s 3 hour effort. 1. Digging straight down into snow is just like digging your own grave. 2. Digging 2 metres straight down under the awnings of a roof precariously supporting approximately 1 tonne of snow is like writing your will and lying on the freeway at night.