Last night I watched a short documentary called Tokyo Rising exploring some of the creative output by Japan following the devastating earthquake in March. It’s presented by Pharrell Williams and is beautifully shot. It’s inspiring and interesting and well worth your time. Check out the trailer!
Once again PinkTentacle has curated a collection of interesting illustrations this time depicting a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. These images are orginally from TokyoGenso so hit them up for more.
PinkTentacle presents a collection of paintings by the Japanese surrealist Tetsuya Ishida (1973-2005) exploring some of the darker aspects of modern life.
I came across an article on Wired about the trend of Japanese municipalities to decorate their manhole covers. Photographer, Remo Camerota has compiled his collection of these covers into a book. I think I may have lost the plot as I’m posting a story about man hole covers…
Cartoonist Steve Bialik has cleverly mashed up traditional Japanese art styling with the characters from Star Wars to create these wonderful illustrations.
