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:: Saturday, December 08, 2007 ::

Takashi Murakami

Japanese Louis Vuitton commercial by Takashi Murakami

[music by Fantastic Plastic Machine]

Takashi Murakami is probably best known for his Manga related work. "[His] style, called Superflat, is characterized by flat planes of color and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga. Superflat is an artistic style that comments on otaku lifestyle and subculture, as well as consumerism and sexual fetishism. Social commentary is nothing new, nor is appropriation of mass media or popular culture." [source wikipedia]

Murakami - Army of Mushrooms


Which reminds me. I bought the recent Pop magazine because I was intrigued by the article about creating mushrooms out of designer clothes with similar sounding names. eg Shitake Versace:

Labels: Animation, Art, Fashion, Food, graphics

:: Dan 8.12.07 [Arc] [2 comments] ::
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Gah, I love all things Murakami. Ryu, Takeshi, and I'm just checking out Haruki at the moment. Takeshi is exhibiting at the Los Angeles MOMA in February - hopefully I'll have pictures from that.

# posted by  paparatti : 9/12/07 1:30 am

 

Hold on, aren't you heading over to the US in a couple of weeks? How long will you be there for?

# posted by  Dan : 9/12/07 9:07 am

 

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