Of course iPods naturally look cool but if you feel the urge to trick one out, you can do so with some of these cool skins.
AudioCubes offers quite a few Japanese-themed iPod skins by GelaSkins.
One of the artists behind some of these cool skins is Aya Kato from Aichi, Japan. Her partial bio [...]
SparkPlugged has recently featured album art a couple times. Well, here’s more.
A fan has his collection of 60’s & 70’s Asian pop record covers online. David Greenfield’s collection features some 130 Asian pop record covers. The collection consists of records from the 60’s and 70’s from Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand.
I must [...]
So I finally picked up a copy of Kanye West’s new album Graduation.
While spinning the CD in my stereo I was flipping through the album book. We’ve all seen the cover of Kanye’s album but I never questioned who the artist behind the work was. I just thought, “that looks cool”.
All the art on [...]
With popular artists releasing so many singles, the CD cover artists in Japan must be busy.
Japanese hip-hop artist SEAMO’s (シーモ, Shiimo) latest single “軌跡” (Kiseki, miracle) is coming out. Listeners can hopefully expect an album due out soon as well (though there is no official word as of late).
Since 2005, SEAMO has released 8 [...]
What do you get when you cross world class athletes and acrobats with crazy Japanese humor? You get an event so weird that it can only be known as a ‘muscle musical’ and can definitely be found in a weird little town known as Las Vegas.
I recently went to Vegas during the summer. While [...]
Check out this retro photo of a super cool robo:
This is photo taken in the early 1930s of Mitsui Yasutaro and his “own steel humanoid”. Very impressive. The robot is the one on the left by the way.
…the fascination goes back this far? Oh yeah, much much further. I have some questions though. What [...]
Manga adventures at the bookstore are fun. I go to the store with absolutely no idea what to buy, browse the manga section for however long it takes to find something that sparks my interest, take it home, and read it.
While the term “adventure” may be and overstatement, I find this exciteing nonetheless. [...]
Have you ever dreamed about riding on a flying Giant Panda? Perhaps not, but thanks to ANA now you can. ANA has some of the prettiest planes in the sky when they’re painted regularly. But they have had some pretty great [...]
Full wrap-around advertisements on public buses is nothing new. Some catch your eye and others don’t. But there are some that really stand out. These ads don’t use the bus’s flat walls as simple canvases; rather they [...]
Free Photoshop brushes are a great thing. They are little clippings of artwork for you to use in your projects. While overuse of these brushes is evident and looks silly, a good Photoshop brush can add depthcharacter to many projects. [...]
