Ego City / Issue 3

PLEASE click the image for full view to watch it.

Ego City / Issue 3 directly from Winnipeg, Canada by Reetbot

This zine is the third issue it contains photos of the graffiti scene in Winnipeg, Canada. The package also included some stickers by Reetbot. The zine size of this issue changed it is a 5 [wide] by 8 [height] it contains some photocopies in color the rest are black and white. All photos are by Reetbot and DAKO, every second page is upside down. Still it is awesome and very well done. The themes of the issues depends on the ideas that Mr. Reetbot haves at that time [this makes it even better]. I found out about this magazine directly from Reetbot and well I asked him if he could send me the issue. Kindly enough he did. Why i asked for this zine? Cause it is a pretty good and original idea. Very unique and special simple in the making but with so much creativity that I couldnt resist it. 😀

+INFO on Ego City visit and ask myspace.com/reetbot

Ego City / Issue 3

PLEASE click the image for full view to watch it.

Ego City / Issue 3 directly from Winnipeg, Canada by Reetbot

This zine is the third issue it contains photos of the graffiti scene in Winnipeg, Canada. The package also included some stickers by Reetbot. The zine size of this issue changed it is a 5 [wide] by 8 [height] it contains some photocopies in color the rest are black and white. All photos are by Reetbot and DAKO, every second page is upside down. Still it is awesome and very well done. The themes of the issues depends on the ideas that Mr. Reetbot haves at that time [this makes it even better]. I found out about this magazine directly from Reetbot and well I asked him if he could send me the issue. Kindly enough he did. Why i asked for this zine? Cause it is a pretty good and original idea. Very unique and special simple in the making but with so much creativity that I couldnt resist it. 😀

+INFO on Ego City visit and ask myspace.com/reetbot

Writing over Murakami.

A friend [Aslan] sent me today an article he found on Boing Boing talking about a billboard that was written [as in graffiti writing, HA!] but this wasnt a just a billboard [well it was] but thing is it was announcing the Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. I was like, ok? Why is this so special? [he always send me something interesting] I keep reading the article and it turns out that two well known graffiti writters of that area named AUGER and REVOK did KaiKai and KiKi his characters plus their names on the billboard.

Hey! Now don’t go around LA trying to find it cause you won’t find it. The billboard it is on its way to Tokyo as we speak [maybe it is already there]. Mr. Murakami asked for the billboard to be removed. No! It is not that he didnt liked to be bombed. It is all the way around. When his people found the photo on the internet and told him about the new decoration of the billboard he liked it so much that he asked that the billboard was removed and shipped to his studio back in Tokyo. Talk about first impressions. I can only imagine this guys right now they must be so high [as in happiness very very happy] . The billboard only lasted two days so not many people got to see the new writings. But dont worry I have a pic here for you. By the way it looks amazing love the colors and the characters are so kawaii [cute] as always japanese style … all about the cuteness.

^^!

[billboard before the writtings]

[billboard after the writtings]

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Who is Takashi Murakami?
[just in case you were wondering why all the excitement]

Takashi Murakami (村上隆, Murakami Takashi?, born 1 February 1962 in Tokyo) is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, “Superflat” paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.

Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, initially studying more traditionalist Japanese art. He pursued a doctorate in Nihonga, a mixture of Western and Eastern styles dating back to the late 19th century. However, due to the mass popularity of anime and manga, Japanese styles of animation and comic graphic stories, Murakami became disillusioned with Nihonga, and became fixated on otaku culture, which he felt was more representative of modern day Japanese life.

This resulted in Superflat, the style that Murakami is credited with starting. It developed from Poku, (Pop + otaku). Murakami has written that he aims to represent Poku culture because he expects that animation and otaku might create a new culture. This new culture being a rejuvenation of the contemporary Japanese art scene. This is what it is all about to Murakami; he has expressed in several interviews in the last five or six years the frustration that his art has risen from. It is a frustration rooted in the lack of a reliable and sustainable art market in post-war Japan, and the general view of Japanese art in and outside the country as having a low art status. He is quoted as saying that the market is nothing but “a shallow appropriation of Western trends”. His first reaction was to make art in non-fine arts media, but decided instead to focus on the market sustainability of art and promote himself first overseas. This marks the birth of KaiKai Kiki, LLC.

+Info: Takashi_Murakami / KaiKai Kiki Co.

Writing over Murakami.

A friend [Aslan] sent me today an article he found on Boing Boing talking about a billboard that was written [as in graffiti writing, HA!] but this wasnt a just a billboard [well it was] but thing is it was announcing the Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. I was like, ok? Why is this so special? [he always send me something interesting] I keep reading the article and it turns out that two well known graffiti writters of that area named AUGER and REVOK did KaiKai and KiKi his characters plus their names on the billboard.

Hey! Now don’t go around LA trying to find it cause you won’t find it. The billboard it is on its way to Tokyo as we speak [maybe it is already there]. Mr. Murakami asked for the billboard to be removed. No! It is not that he didnt liked to be bombed. It is all the way around. When his people found the photo on the internet and told him about the new decoration of the billboard he liked it so much that he asked that the billboard was removed and shipped to his studio back in Tokyo. Talk about first impressions. I can only imagine this guys right now they must be so high [as in happiness very very happy] . The billboard only lasted two days so not many people got to see the new writings. But dont worry I have a pic here for you. By the way it looks amazing love the colors and the characters are so kawaii [cute] as always japanese style … all about the cuteness.

^^!

[billboard before the writtings]

[billboard after the writtings]

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Who is Takashi Murakami?
[just in case you were wondering why all the excitement]

Takashi Murakami (村上隆, Murakami Takashi?, born 1 February 1962 in Tokyo) is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, “Superflat” paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.

Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, initially studying more traditionalist Japanese art. He pursued a doctorate in Nihonga, a mixture of Western and Eastern styles dating back to the late 19th century. However, due to the mass popularity of anime and manga, Japanese styles of animation and comic graphic stories, Murakami became disillusioned with Nihonga, and became fixated on otaku culture, which he felt was more representative of modern day Japanese life.

This resulted in Superflat, the style that Murakami is credited with starting. It developed from Poku, (Pop + otaku). Murakami has written that he aims to represent Poku culture because he expects that animation and otaku might create a new culture. This new culture being a rejuvenation of the contemporary Japanese art scene. This is what it is all about to Murakami; he has expressed in several interviews in the last five or six years the frustration that his art has risen from. It is a frustration rooted in the lack of a reliable and sustainable art market in post-war Japan, and the general view of Japanese art in and outside the country as having a low art status. He is quoted as saying that the market is nothing but “a shallow appropriation of Western trends”. His first reaction was to make art in non-fine arts media, but decided instead to focus on the market sustainability of art and promote himself first overseas. This marks the birth of KaiKai Kiki, LLC.

+Info: Takashi_Murakami / KaiKai Kiki Co.

Blogger del dia [the prize winners]

Yesterday Veronica known as la-inmigrante-espanola gave me the prize/award of blogger del dia. What is this blogger del dia thing? Well it is a title/award/nomination/gift that people give to blogs that they think are good, that they enjoy, visit frequently. By giving this to others you make other people know and find good stuff around the blogging community.

The idea is to make your blogging experience a good one and that you find things that get your attention and share it with the rest of the community. I hope that this is the right reason dont know if I explained it well. Anyways after you receive your title/award or nomination you have or should nominate 12 blogs of your choices for this award/title/etc. Again by doing this we grow and learn from others. Dont know if I shall notify all the people that I gave the nomination to but I will try to get them all.

Death+Taxes this blog is the one I visit the most. It belongs to a dear friend and he tells his side of the story. Sharing his own ideas, frustrations, admirations, love and all in between with photos, writings and many other things that life brings. [in spanish]

La Inmigrante Espanola Vero’s blog about her new life in Germany. Found it by using the navigator and got stuck till today. She writes about daily details/things that can make you feel sometimes happy, sad, excited or confused when you are in a new country. She also describes place and things that I remember when I went to Germany. [in spanish]

4to Blanco This blog is formed by a group of artists and they share amazing photographs to express their ideas or visions with the rest of the world. No words needed but you might see some around the blog. Been visiting for a long time this one.

On my desk this blog is about artists from around the world and their working spaces. Artists submits photos of their studios, offices, desks, etc. You can really see were the magic happens and the tools to make it happen. I have been inspired by some of those spaces and look forward to make my space/studio look and feel like home more than a working place. Been visiting for a long time too. [in english]

Gabi Campanario Illustrator Gabi Campnario shares his daily sketches. I enjoy watching his work and reading the details, descriptions and notes he writes around the sketches. [in english and spanish]

Aerosol Just discovered this one recently. Haves history and information about graffiti, street and urban art. Huge compilation of photos, artists and more graffiti related things direct from Spain.

Blogger del dia [the prize winners]

Yesterday Veronica known as la-inmigrante-espanola gave me the prize/award of blogger del dia. What is this blogger del dia thing? Well it is a title/award/nomination/gift that people give to blogs that they think are good, that they enjoy, visit frequently. By giving this to others you make other people know and find good stuff around the blogging community.

The idea is to make your blogging experience a good one and that you find things that get your attention and share it with the rest of the community. I hope that this is the right reason dont know if I explained it well. Anyways after you receive your title/award or nomination you have or should nominate 12 blogs of your choices for this award/title/etc. Again by doing this we grow and learn from others. Dont know if I shall notify all the people that I gave the nomination to but I will try to get them all.

Death+Taxes this blog is the one I visit the most. It belongs to a dear friend and he tells his side of the story. Sharing his own ideas, frustrations, admirations, love and all in between with photos, writings and many other things that life brings. [in spanish]

La Inmigrante Espanola Vero’s blog about her new life in Germany. Found it by using the navigator and got stuck till today. She writes about daily details/things that can make you feel sometimes happy, sad, excited or confused when you are in a new country. She also describes place and things that I remember when I went to Germany. [in spanish]

4to Blanco This blog is formed by a group of artists and they share amazing photographs to express their ideas or visions with the rest of the world. No words needed but you might see some around the blog. Been visiting for a long time this one.

On my desk this blog is about artists from around the world and their working spaces. Artists submits photos of their studios, offices, desks, etc. You can really see were the magic happens and the tools to make it happen. I have been inspired by some of those spaces and look forward to make my space/studio look and feel like home more than a working place. Been visiting for a long time too. [in english]

Gabi Campanario Illustrator Gabi Campnario shares his daily sketches. I enjoy watching his work and reading the details, descriptions and notes he writes around the sketches. [in english and spanish]

Aerosol Just discovered this one recently. Haves history and information about graffiti, street and urban art. Huge compilation of photos, artists and more graffiti related things direct from Spain.