Art work for Japan

Quite a long post of some pictures dedicated to the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami. Some really impressive work based around a pretty horrific natural event. Seems Japan is taking its first steps on its long road to recovery.

Aurelien Morini

Bastien Grivet

David Revoy



Éléonore Della Malva



Giovanni Rigano



Olivier Ferra Japon



Japanese mascots

Some awesome Japanese mascots.

Cheesus by Hokama Good Cheese Co.

Sumitomo Calamari Ice Cream

BANZAI !

Here are some Czech & Polish posters for kaiju films. [via Pink Tentacle]

some of the designs are so cool ! they really have a way of creating weird monsters.

Japanese Monsters

 These pictures have been reblogged from http://www.pinktentacle.com/ which is an amazing site dedicated to Japanese art and culture.

The pictures were taken from 'The illustrated book of Japanese monsters: 1972'
I picked out some of my favourites;

Baku - dream eating chimera

Kubiro-oni (strangler demon)

Onmoraki (bird demon)

Tengu (bird like demon)

Rokurokuri (long necked woman)



Nick Bradley

Nick Bradley

Stole this photo from a friends facebook page, hes a very talented photographer and all round genius ! Met him on my travels in Japan as he was finishing up his time working for JET. Had a brilliant night out with him, last time i saw him he was steaming drunk and wandering down a street in hiroshima.

Studio Ghibli

I found out the other day that all the Studio Ghibli collection are being released on Blu-ray, which is amazing news ! watching those masterpieces in high definition will be a pleasure. Although it means buying them all again id quite happily part with the money just to have an up to date collection to one day pass down to my children ! i want my kids to grow up on Ghibli.

Miyazaki

When i visited Japan i was lucky enough to visit a Ghibli exhibition with a lot of sketchs from all of the movies, the details each scene has are mind blowing. I came away with some postcards of different films and put them into nice frames when i returned home. Will post some pictures of the finishing product when i get in.

word on the interwebz is that the studio will producing a sequal to Porco Rosso and also an adaptation of the british novel  'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton.

The Borrower Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ, Karigurashi no Arietti)

Ive had a little think about what kind of content im going to be putting on this blog. I realized that somethings that i find interesting might be a bit rubbish ! So it would be better if this blog was heading in a premeditated direction.

As my future plans go, i want to get back out to Japan hopefully to teach English out there with a company like Interac (the JET program and I had a dissagreement). Because of this i think im going to try and make this blog a document of my pursuit of a teaching career..hopefully in Japan.

Along the way i will document interesting things that might be a little off topic, but hopefully someone out there might find my ramblings and random junk interesting.