STOIC VIOLENCE? This record off my 7″ collection. GUDON “Stoic Violence” 7″ 1986 VAP Inc. Stunning artwork. It was in 1984-85 that I discovered the great quality of japanese graphic design. Stuff you wouldn’t see anywhere else.
It’s been a few years since NBHD Harajuku was revamped using material from different artists. One artist is Charles Krafft from Seattle. Known for his collaborations with the legendary artist group NSK (Laibach etc.), his work displayed at NBHD is called “disasterware”. The pieces are scary, beautiful, disgusting, poetic, revolting, peaceful… so many different emotions comes to mind when staring at his disasterware! It fits the store quite well, as there are very few lights and the interior design is super dark (pentagram made of police security wooden barriers anyone? vintage motorcycles, super retro 2 proto sound sytem…). Visit NBHD and see for yourself! Images on this post are : Storefront of NBHD. To see the disasterware, click on C. Krafft’s link.
For Loveform’s next audio/video mix called “In the Club”, I took a few preview screenshots (off the video). The 60 (or so) minutes video was shot at Club Unit Daikanyama / Tokyo, January 2009. More to come… In the meantime, check Loveform’s website for the previous video “Minimal.Hard“.
Ok I know it’s a bit off-topic, but couldn’t resist. This is Dieter Rams, talking about the design revolution! It’s a time-trip, way pre-Clockwork Orange era.
I used to be a big fan of A.P.C.’s clothes in the 90′s. This A.P.C.’s Underground store in Harajuku. In front of Headporter and on the same building as HP.Annex. It’s not as big as their Daikanyama’s store, but it’s nice too.
Killer photos, I don’t know what to say, great grain, nice color, and superb settings. Thumbs up!
There’s no time or place for a nap. Daytime napping on the Yamanote-sen.
These guys loves winter. Countdown 2008-2009 Shibuya Hachiko station.
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This piece of photo gear anthology is my main tool when it comes to street snap, it’s a Ricoh GRDII. I’ve used Ricoh cameras for 13 years now. I love Ricoh. As the GRDIII version will be released this month, I’m sharing a few links with you, enjoy, buy it, then send me your photos!
RICOH
DPREVIEW
FASHIONLIFECREW
HYPEBEAST
ps: new firmware 2.4 for the GRDII : GRDII 2.4 firmware
A nice evening at some Golden Gai bar with Ashtom and great photographer Agake Masahito. The bar had several great b/w photos and spotted Moriyama Daido in a few of them, amongst other artists. That’s because the owner of the bar is a photographer and used to be Daido’s student !
John Hughes, my teenage years were rocked by your brilliant films, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s day off, Vacation, Christmas vacation, Pretty in pink, to name a few. I’ll never forget you.
A very interesting camera indeed. Check a few in-depths articles as well as the official website.
DPReview
Digital Camera HQ
The Online Photographer
Steve Huff Photo
StudioVoice Artistlife site
Official website (jp)
Official website (eng)
This is my friend Kenichi, he’s from Tokyo, he’s a game designer/producer, he’s into Ricoh GRDII too. We met at Design Festa in Tokyo, spring 2008. He saw my camera and we instantly clicked, we shot eachother with our GRDII. Instant friendship. Kenichi has a dog too, and he’s very cool indeed (ok I love dogs). We share some similar taste in 80′s music and 90′a techno clubs like Space Lab Yellow (they closed down unfortunately). Here’s some of Kenichi’s works. And you can read and watch his Ricoh photo blogging at Route24, his independent company. Works: Newtonica, ????DS (hilarious, try it really!), iClick. Oh and we met again in January at one of my favorite vegetarian restaurants in Azabu-juban, “eat mort greens” (please support this restaurant, it’s an independent eatery with quality meals at good prices), and after that we went to Oldvine (his friend is the owner). That’s us there, by the way.
Since the beginning of No.51269 you’ve noticed the Moa 4 Cafe in pictures or talks. Well, now you know it, it’s my daily stop, my before-going-to-work headquarters in Shinjuku, before I go on a shooting spree downtown Kabukicho/Golden Gai/etc. I usually get a cheap ice coffee there. Now the problem is this: the cafe has been sold to a chain (I won’t mention here), which is lame, as it used to be an independent little trailer cafe and it’s now been replaced by a sedentary (and corporate!) structure. Shinjuku’s changing, I’m afraid.
