A screen capture of the archives at prettycolors.tumblr.com....
Akitaya Naniwa's World Map. Japanese wood-block print. Made c. 1785. (via the Big Map Blog, where it is zoomable)...
The televised campaign speech of Mac Akasaka, founder of the Smile Therapy Association and a candidate in the 2011 Tokyo gubernatorial race representing his own Smile Party (slogan: "Towards a Positive Tokyo!"). No subtitles, but given Akasaka's enthusiasm and a few keywords you should be able to grasp the thrust of his campaign: A smile can take...
from ThisIsNotPorn.net (via Vice)...
Trisha Brown's dance "Walking on the Wall" (1971) is performed daily at London's Barbican through May 22 as part of the Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s exhibition....
The latest from Genki Sudo, the retired mixed martial artist/kickboxer-cum-techno singer, and his dance performance unit World Order: smooooth as usual. The unprecedented disasters unfolding in Japan; earthquakes, tsunami, and nuclear explosions, will somehow change things to come. And to send my message about this, I have expressed it here with WORLD ORDER. These disasters can be interpreted as a turning...
Due to distribution issues in the wake of the Tohoku quake and its aftermath, the March 14th issue of the massively popular manga Shonen Jump has been made available online for free until April 27 at Nico Nico Seiga (Mac) or Yahoo! Japan (Windows). (In Japanese, but should be easy to figure out.) Kodansha Comics Plus...
THE CHARACTER from Candice Breitz on Vimeo. Fifteen children were each asked to watch a Bollywood movie prominently featuring a child character. During the shoot that followed, each child was asked to verbally portray the child character in the movie that s/he had watched, to describe the role and plight of that character within the movie’s...
A teaser for GeGeGe no Nyōbō, based on an autobiographical book by the wife of manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, father of GeGeGe no Kitarō: ...