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Beautiful and Ornate Porcelain Skulls

Beautiful and Ornate Porcelain Skulls

Julia Rose April 20, 2012 0

Part ink blot test, part day of the dead, Katsuyo Aoki  created these beautifully intricate skulls as part of the series ‘Predictive Dream’. The works look momentary, as though at any second the delicate porcelain limbs could

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Japan’s Latest Fetish? Schoolgirls Licking Doorknobs

Japan’s Latest Fetish? Schoolgirls Licking Doorknobs

Alex Wain April 16, 2012 1

Now we’ve featured a few strange things from the crazy world of Japan, from previous stories about their epic futuristic fashion, to their brilliant TRON dance groups, through to their penchant for vacumn sealing

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Dorothy – An Achingly Beautiful Anime Music Video

Dorothy – An Achingly Beautiful Anime Music Video

Alex Wain March 28, 2012 1

Anime-manga-music video ‘Dorothy’ is the result of a collaboration between singer Yunyu, a Triple J Unearthed winner, New York Times #1 bestselling manga artist Queenie Chan & leading animators the Common ist. Now with those 3 at the helm,

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Stunning Futuristic Fashion From Vogue Japan

Stunning Futuristic Fashion From Vogue Japan

Alex Wain March 28, 2012 1

Interestingly enough, famous Italian photographer Giampaolo Sgura initially started out his career in architecture – the traits and fundamentals of which are evident in his new career sole focusing on fashion photography. Using metallic

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Epic Japanese Dance Group Perform TRON Show

Epic Japanese Dance Group Perform TRON Show

Alex Wain March 19, 2012 1

Welcome to Geek heaven! What do you get when you take one of the best Japanese dance troupes in the world and allow them to create a performance based on the epic TRON movie

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Ember-Eyed & Eerie Illustrations By Mezamero

Ember-Eyed & Eerie Illustrations By Mezamero

Alex Wain March 9, 2012 1

Prepare for nightmares! These intense and eerie illustrations are the work of Russian mastermind Mezamero (who’s real name is Viktoria). Her work on Deviant Art towers over much of the other submissions on the site,

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Futuristic & Illuminating Light Sculptures by Makoto Tojiki

Futuristic & Illuminating Light Sculptures by Makoto Tojiki

Alex Wain March 3, 2012 0

Japanese artist Makoto Tojiki creates some truly breath-taking futuristic works of art, primarily using hundreds of optical fibres and LED lights. His latest series is called No Shadow whereby he creates both human and animal sculptures

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Japanese Monsters & Their Anatomical Diagrams

Japanese Monsters & Their Anatomical Diagrams

Alex Wain February 27, 2012 1

We’d previously featured a frankly phenomenal collection of retro Godzilla posters, so when we found these cool anatomical images of the monster himself (along with a view other iconic Japanese monsters) we knew we’d

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Peculiar Portraits Of Japanese Lovers Sealed In Plastic

Peculiar Portraits Of Japanese Lovers Sealed In Plastic

Alex Wain January 15, 2012 3

Japanese conceptual artist & photographer Hal, has his own unique take on “everlasting love” That’s the motivation behind his stunningly vivid (and often bizarre) portrait series titled “Flesh Love”. Hal set about photographing lovers

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Phenomenal Collection Of Retro Godzilla Posters

Phenomenal Collection Of Retro Godzilla Posters

Alex Wain December 6, 2011 1

He’s taller than 3 skyscrapers stacked on top of each other, was born in 1954, is a black belt in countless martial arts & is capable of breathing fire. He’s also one of Japan’s

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