Look at this astonishing music video from a Japanese breakbeat duo called Hifana. It explodes.
Tag Archives: Japan
Gojin Ishihara’s Freak Art for Kids
Pink Tentacle has an amazing collection of freakishly bizarre Japanese children’s book illustrations by Gojin Ishihara from the 1970s. His marvelously comforting work features various humans being eaten, strangled, decapitated, tortured and generally threatened by every sort of demonic beast possible to imagine.
Well worth your time.
Ultraman Art From Japan
Pink Tentacle has Japanese sci-fi and Ultraman art by Takayoshi Mizuki. These were done in the sixties and early seventies. They remind me of the art you’d see on toy boxes.
Animation: The TV Show
Sugimoto Kousuke animated this to the music of Takayuki Manabe. It is one of those free-moving explosions of anime that revel in media, electricity, gadgets, techno, and odd angles. It’s a riot of scenes that I can’t really fit together in any meaningful way, but it sure is a blast to watch.
Via Drawn
Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors
UCLA pediatrician James Yamazaki has put together a very powerful and disturbing collection of artworks by survivors of the atom bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
Animation: Sarumomo
Japanese artist Takumi K. made this animation that’s based on ideas from his daughter. It’s a moving story that has been featured on YouTube.
I found this via Cold Hard Flash.