BLISTER!
The Japanese film 'Blister!' won the Fantaland Grand Prize and got the best reputation from audiences in this year's Yubari International Film Festival. It gives a good picture of the everyday life of so-called Geeks ...
The Japanese film 'Blister!' won the Fantaland Grand Prize and got the best reputation from audiences in this year's Yubari International Film Festival. It gives a good picture of the everyday life of so-called Geeks ...
In Japan, most people are interested in mobile phone and it's been featured in not only business magazines, but also in general and fashion magazines. i-Mode was started by NTT Docomo last spring. This is, in brief, ...
What I'm now interested in is free paintings and illustrations such as 'Scrawl: Dirty Graphics & Strange Characters' published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, and silent visual expressions featured in the IDEA magazin...
The album “Ninth Elegy” of Tsuki No Wa leaded by a vocalist Fuminosuke has just arrived. This album was produced by Amephone who is included in Gasbook 5 and I can feel the sound of urban night. It's absolutel...
This year's Yubari International Film Festival screened a number of animations. 'Toy Story 2' (invitation) was one of the special-feature films, and another special one must have been 'Jin-Roh, The Wolf Brigade' (mad...
Gasbook 7 consists of a Video (60 min.), CD-ROM, T-shirt, and catalogue, and features very important creators in visual and graphic design from all over the world including Me Company (well-known for producing the...
"A pen and paper. They're the most familiar tools to output one's impulse of expression. And paper which we can bring with us everywhere is note. "NOTE" is a showcase of works and new talents. Whether they're well-...
The text frightened me today is the special feature 'TOKYO DESIGN' in June issue of Studio Voice. It features lots of people who create and send off old, middle and new visuals in today's Tokyo. I'm happy to read th...
I cannot write text at all and I'm frightened by text. Because I think text is an ultimate form of multimedia, and text is what all things in the universe are coded and visualized. Recently kanji (Chinese character) ...
The next is "MONSOON VOL.02" whose the great cover by Hirohiko Araki who dealt with 'JOJO'. The contents is also great and too deep. The sense of those that we can feel at the actual scene drives into my eyes with ...
Illustration: Imai Toons When I saw the mobile suit designed by Syd Mead in Young Magazine first, I had everything go black. This is the design before GUNDAM!? The director Tomino said, "Affirm all GUNDAM" in...
All colors were taken from the world!! The work consisting of the quiet new expression and sense of cartoon, adopted the plot and interface of a role playing game style and having the story to get back the colors one ...
When I went to buy some cds to a record shop in Daikan-yama, a visual caught my eyes. "What is this cool photo?" I got the impression that it likes the photo of a stag beetle in the cd jacket of Massive Attack. I took...
As I wrote in my Best 5 last month, I'm watching animations almost every day. Recently I came to watch Gasaraki (Ryousuke Takahashi), but it starts from nine thirty in the morning. My girlfriend watched it and wonde...
You must be in the situation accessing to internet now. And you may have your mail account and communicate with many people by e-mail. Moreover, you may have your homepage and send information to invisible people, ...
Cover illustration: Ed. Tsuwaki commons & sense, a post card sized visual magazine, has been redesigned with its 5th issue, featuring fashion visuals, photos, illustrations and interviews regarding fashion an...
Felissimo, a publisher that specialises in mail order catalogue book, launched 'dico', a email order catalogue exclusively for the internet shopping service, whilst a lot of publishers of the kind are trying to br...