by Christopher Hudgens | Nov 10, 2009 | Blog, TV
This is a proof-of-concept video by the Japanese design house PROTOTYPE that was built to showcase their new modular interactive large scale touch screen installation process. This concept can be scaled to sizes way beyond the 20 iPod demo and easily maintained,...
by Meg Onli | Sep 12, 2008 | Blog
On Sunday September 7th Japanese artist/designer Nagi Noda passes away. She was 35. There is no word on the exact cause of her death; but people have speculated that it was related to a car accident she was in last year that had left the artist with Chronic pain and...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 19, 2008 | Blog
A newly discovered wooden sculpture of a Buddha that had religious objects sealed in its torso for 800 years sold for $14.3 million, setting a world record for any Japanese work of art, Christie’s auction house said. The seated figure of Dainichi Nyorai, or the...
by Christopher Hudgens | Feb 19, 2008 | Blog
Japan’s Supreme Court has issued a landmark decision opening the way for the sale of a book of collected erotic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. This would over rule a 2003 decision by the Tokyo High Court that banned the book’s sale because it...
by Brian Andrews | Feb 5, 2008 | Blog
For two days in December, Los Angeles residents were blessed with some of the best public art I’ve seen in quite a while. A billboard for Takahasi Murakami’s retrospective was bombed by legendary writers AUGER/REVOK. LA weekly is now reporting that the...