Ricor – RUST

Ricor is a Taiwanese photographer. The photo book RUST, published by waterfall, impressed me. We can view some cuts of the work on Vimeo.

Ricor – RUST

You should access the Flickr or Facebook page if you want to view more pictures. Most notably, some pictures of Sunflower Movement in Taiwan are uploaded. They were taken on a rainy night. This is the desired work as an artist, I think.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inverselive/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ricorsayhi

Rainie Yang and Mika Ninagawa

Rainie Yang, famous actress/singer in Taiwan, appears on the cover of the latest issue of VOGUE Taiwan. Taken by Mika Ninagawa, famous photographer in Japan. You can watch the video of shooting on YouTube. I had an impression of the red world produced by two artistic talents. The photographs has a strong presence. Very beautiful, very cool.


VOGUE Taiwan - 七個不同的楊丞琳，你喜歡哪一個？

Sputniko! - The Moonwalk Machine -Selena's Step-

This video is a part of Sputniko!'s installation exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Beyond my understanding... But impressive for me! I recommend this video to you. How do you feel about her steps?


Sputniko! - The Moonwalk Machine -Selena's Step-

That was Paris

Beautiful time-lapse motion picture. We can enjoy various expression of Paris. I love some silhouettes of people against a big clock. People are a part of time, moved by time.


That was Paris

Rie fu - Sing

Rie fu is a singer-songwriter in Japan and sings in Japanese and English. She will release the cover album "Rie fu sings the Carpenters" in September this year. Her voice looks like Karen's. Watch this video and feel the attraction of her song. Very impressive.


Rie fu - Sing
These pictures in the video are painted by Rie fu.

Summer Tones

The exhibition "COLOR-HUNTING" is held at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo. We can experience various things about COLOR. Titled "Summer Tones," the work is most impressive for me. Wind bells with indigo dyed strips play good sounds and swing in the air. So to speak, I can hear the color, I can see the sound. Color of strips changes from indigo to white by gradation. "Tone" is translated as "音色" into Japanese: "音" means sound; "色" means color. So, we can experience sound and color by several tones. That is the theme of this work "Summer Tones," I think.

Movie uploaded on Vine. Listen to wind bells sound and see swinging strips.

Pictures show the color gradient of "Summer Tones."

TM NETWORK CONCERT -Incubation Period-

TM NETWORK performed on April 24th & 25th, 2012. In this concert the performance based on the original story "Incubation Period" written by Tetsuya Komuro. Sound, staging and lyrics were related to the story. Almost all songs were released in past times, but the selected songs can be interpreted for this story.

"Incubation Period" is SF story. Three aliens--look like the members--set foot on the earth and look around the world. They had viewed many events: friendship, goodbye, love, war, cooperation and disaster. What they have seen is human being.

"Incubation Period" included many riddles. All the riddles were not solved; some remain a secret and others gives way to the new mystery. The story is ongoing. We can imagine the missing pieces of the story watching the video of the concert.

You can watch some videos in the Blu-ray/DVD which records the performance.


TM NETWORK - SEVEN DAYS WAR


TM NETWORK - COME ON EVERYBODY + COME ON LET'S DANCE


TM NETWORK - BEYOND THE TIME


TM NETWORK - I am


Keyboard Performance by Tetsuya Komuro


TM NETWORK - GET WILD


TM NETWORK - WILD HEAVEN In February, the new keyword "FINAL MISSION -START investigation-" was transmitted. On the basis of it, TM NETWORK will perform on July 20th & 21st, 2013. The new story will be told.

She Wants Revenge - Take The World

What story do you imagine from the video of "Take The World"? Four women smiles and attracts someone. But their expressions becomes lost in the darkness. Someone may try to bring all of the women happiness, but as a result, nobody is happy. The world is monochrome and empty, and they are sad and lonely.


She Wants Revenge - Take The World

MAUSI - Move

IMPRESSIVE!! I love this melody and refrain of synthesizer sound makes me excited. Music video is directed by Mathy & Fran. The video creates good atmosphere.
BTW, what's MAUSI? I can't collect the information about MAUSI. Mysterious for me, but it's interesting. I can enjoy this song, being free from prejudice.


MAUSI - Move

Paramore - Anklebiters

We can watch Paramore's new video. This animation is funny and surrealistic for me.


Paramore - Anklebiters

Sing for Hope Pianos

"Sing for Hope Pianos" is nice activity. Everyone can play pianos that appear here and there in New York. One of Sing for Hope project. New Yorker's blog told me Sing for Hope Pianos. When searching on Twitter, I could find some pictures about it. People play a piano on the street in New York. The sound of a piano can be heard from the street corner―very interesting, I think.

Sing for Hope Pianos
http://www.singforhope.org/about

Dia Lights

Impressive lighting. "Dia" of the title "Dia Lights" is the same as "dia" of "dialogue"? The work expresses "dialogue" in various lights?


Dia Lights

Sharp AQUOS Product Video "Impression"

Music is produced by Tetsuya Komuro and video is directed by Daizaburo Harada. "ARASHIYAMA" is the title of the track. It is the name of the place in Kyoto, Japan. Theme of this video is "Japan which is looked at from outside," Daizaburo Harada said. How do you feel when you watch the work?


Sharp AQUOS Product Video "Impression"

PERISCOPE

PERISCOPE: http://wearetheperiscope.com/

"PERISCOPE" is the digital magazine on the web and iPad app*. Editors work out of New York. You can read various articles about art, music, politics and business. Some of the articles  stimulate my imagination and thought.

I knew Grace Villamil, an photographer/artist in this magazine. Her photographs show people and landscape in America. Not decorative, but very impressive. Their thoughts at first seem simple, but complicated like a marble pattern by taking a look at the photographs and texts. Texts are written by Yumiko Sakuma, a chief editor of PERISCOPE.

I recommend it to you. Please access this site.

PERISCOPE - Team Periscope is traveling in PRE-ELECTION AMERICA -Cross Country Tripping in Pre-Election America-

PERISCOPE Twitter page: http://twitter.com/weRthePERISCOPE

* The app is released only in Japanese. Today, PERISCOPE said "The English version of our iPad edition is coming really soon." on its Twitter.

The English version of our iPad edition is coming really soon. Stay tuned!
— PERISCOPE (@weRthePERISCOPE) May 29, 2013

Rie fu

"Rie fu" acts as a singer-songwriter mainly in Japan. Sings in both Japanese and English, playing the guitar or piano. Her voice is so beautiful. When singing in English, it sounds like Karen Carpenter. The songs she writes are pop, rock, or sometimes folkie, and the lyrics are impressive for me.


BIGGER PICTURE
(in English)
Last year she became independent from Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. Managing her company, often in a panic, she said, she creates many songs and puts them out at her own pace. Her newest work, titled "BIGGER PICTURE," is the album she released for the first time since flying the nest. You can listen to it and some tracks released in past times on iTunes Store.


LUCKY DAY
(in Japanese)
She organized a concert on January 30th at Shibuya WWW. Played mainly tracks in "BIGGER PICTURE" by herself or with a band. There was a large gap between tranquil ambience and noisy rock sound. According to what she said in a concert, in part of the newest album, she expressed "poison" she hasn't shown. Her poison is expressed by pricking words or heavy-rock sound. You can touch her poison in the music video of "BIGGER PICTURE." In contrast, she sings the bright side of a girl's life in "LUCKY DAY." If you want to know English lyrics, access iTunes Store and listen to the English version. You will be able to feel good.

(Originally written on January 31th, 2013.)

Mario Giacomelli: The Black is Waiting for the White

The exhibition "Mario Giacomelli: The Black is Waiting for the White" is held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Many photos took me to his monochrome world. When starting to view them, I felt that life may be in death. But, finally, felt death may be in life, being surrounded by his photos.

At first, old people walk, eat, kiss, and sleep, so I imagined presence of life in death near them. When viewing more, my image gradually changed. People smiles, dances, walks, and works. They are living and dying by degrees. The brighter light is, the darker shadow is. Shadow is included in light. Death is in life.