Yoshitomo Nara

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i cant get with this in the way that i can get with takashi murakami. what am i missing (if anything)?

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 15 February 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i super-dig his paintings! i'm no art expert, i just like them. i think the colors are beautiful, i like how the backgrounds are very subtly mottled and colored. i like the little kids and i like the attitude of some of them. i'll try to find some of my faves

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 February 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't care for the sculptures as much.

http://www.happyhour.jp/gallery/index.html

the girl in the background here is one of my faves

http://www.bunnybass.com/basspets/pics/yoshitomogirl.jpg

stumbled upon this, check out this person's paintings (warning: dialup nightmare)

back to y.n., i really like the 'power to the punx' one but i couldnt find it before, so i scanned it from a magazine. i do have a pic of it up as my desktop wallpaper.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rjameshudson/desktop.jpg

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 February 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

oops i never posted the other person's painging link:

http://www.angelfire.com/sd/londonmadrid/losangeles.html

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 February 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

a good gallery

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 February 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://my.netian.com/~pinkart2/Yoshitomo%20nara.htm

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the graphics, it's also quite good in book form, with narratives and funny bittersweet comments...Gareth I'll show you when you visit so you can reassert your dislike...Seems more humanist than TM (not that we have to compare them, but...) sad lonely cute murderous little kids... That said, what I saw in galleries I don't really like, it's so big and blown up, it's fine for me just to see reproductions, preferable even, I think TM stands up better in galleries, then again, he has more people working for him. TM has a ukiyo-e book, which you might like, ukiyo-e style with DOB inserted, I like the idea of the collectible mass art object, surprise.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 16 February 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.maesymorfa.fsnet.co.uk/morfablog/yrchildhood.jpg
http://www.minimix.org/jp/curent/c-img/nara/nara1.jpg
http://hikariworks.cool.ne.jp/myroom/art/image/nara.jpg
http://www.minimix.org/jp/curent/c-img/nara/nara3.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i received as a gift a couple years ago a lith-screen of "oh my god -- i miss you" which opened up the world of nara yoshitomo to me. i have a couple t-shirts and his book "i don't care if you forget me" (a smith's ref, no?)

they sold his ashtrays at urban outfitters this past season.

how do you guys rate mimiyo tomozawa?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i think that his work is really dull, the whole little kid saying shocking things in an overly cute style, that betrays my obv. techincal skills has been done before and better.

(south park)

now for murakami, he is doning new and exciting things !

(how do we feel about inka essenhigh in all of this ?)

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There is poetry in Nara which is absent from South Park.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

i am unconvinced, what is poetic.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

his sketchwork i'm falling more and more in love with...

http://www.sweatyfrog.com/nobodyknows.html

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 October 2003 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

inevitable
http://secure.giantrobot.com/products.php?code=JPNEXP

supernova
http://secure.giantrobot.com/products.php?code=SUPERNOVA

[supernova, the sequel to the awesome superflat show is currently at SFMOMA through may 23rd. SF residents: i get free access for me and a guest to SFMOMA, email if interested]

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax, are you going to be at the SFIFF this year? I'm thinking of coming up for it.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it opens today! i was looking at the program this morning.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

HMM? SFIFF is in April.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, this is the other SFIFF.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sfindie.com/sfindieWeb1_20.gif

SFINDIE FOR LIFE

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahh yeah, gotcha. No, I was talking about the International one, but this looks fun too.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Japanese Experience - Inevitable book is HIGHLY recommended.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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