COWBOY BEBOP
The film version of 'Cowboy Bebop' which is one of the brightest series of Japanese TV animation, 'Cowboy Bebop -the Heaven's Door- opened on September 1st. The space cowboys of 4 guys and a dog came back to the stage...
The film version of 'Cowboy Bebop' which is one of the brightest series of Japanese TV animation, 'Cowboy Bebop -the Heaven's Door- opened on September 1st. The space cowboys of 4 guys and a dog came back to the stage...
The book Neut is going to be released discussing the new form of design. There will be a dialogue with designers across various genres such as graphics, music, fashion, product, in which they express their design free...
I first wondered why they chose Osamu Tezuka now and why they picked up 'Metropolis' for the movie from a great number of his works. Japanese animation has been called 'Japanimation' and regarded highly due to 'Nauss...
Have you seen the pictures on BS-i? Dave Spector dancing a strange dance, an alien from planet Magumagu and Takao Osawa in a nonsense SF drama directed by a well-known CF director Gen Sekiguchi, a group in black masks...
In Europe, 'squatting' is very popular. Artists settle in deserted buildings and use the place as a studio or built galleries inside the buildings... In Japan, especially in Tokyo, those movements have no reality for ...
What is needed today is an expression with 'depth'. The urban scene of Poland where the setting of 'Avalon' is laid in looks more futuristically rather than hackneyed scenes of 'Tokyo'. The simple and austere appearan...
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...