Daily Psychic TV / Emperor’s Dead, art project, 2003. 2800 VHS video tapes, 54 radio TV cassette recorders, video transmitter. Ukawa Naohiro creates insane art installations in Tokyo, Kyoto, and New York. Oh yeah, he’s also a graphic designer and fashion designer. I want this one.


V.H.S. (Ventilated Hilarious System) is an Ukawa Naohiro proprietary brand.
A high-resolution filter for circulating revolutionary everyday life, V.H.S. is a fashion brand that can be likened to a broadcasting accident by which chaotic noise invades digitally controlled sterile space



“V.H.S” is a fashion organizer that freeze-dries momentary peak experiences like accidentally receiving and recording pirate broadcasts with needle and thread! The analog habitat is NOT DEAD

First there were transparent desktops, now there are transparent street signs. Chicago artist Tano pastes photographs over no-parking signs.

A British graffiti artist who goes by the name “Banksy” went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed. The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York’s top museums on a single day. It even made the front page of the Gray Lady. These are the museums that got inflitrated:

1. Brooklyn Museum
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art

3. American Museum of Natural History

4. Museum of Modern Art

Tatsumi Orimoto is a 60 year-old performance artist living in Kawasaki City. Buy one or all of his promo posters from the 90s. Printed in Japan, measuring about 100×70cm, these posters are individually signed and are available for US$100 each, which include, packing (rolled), and shipping from Tokyo. Get in while the gettings good.

Here’s a short list of Makoto Aida’s more popular work:

1. disturbing Nihonga paintings of young female amputees, some of them leashed like a dog

2. Fake Suicide Machine

3. Built a cardboard castle for the Shinjuku homeless

4. Series of mock children’s paintings on themes such as “Save Nature,” and “Be Punctual.”

I heard about Yasumasa Yonehara from a podcast from Wooster Collective. Yonehara also has the cover of vaporsmagazine. His work is described in many circles as “soft porn, vaguely exploitive.” You can’t go wrong with anything described as soft porn AND vaguely exploitive.

Also peep out more More horny photos.

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Tara McPherson creates art for a wide variety of outlets. Everything from C/Vertigo Comics. Including Lucifer, Sandman Presents: Thessaly Witch For Hire to Duran Duran, Modest Mouse, and Mötley Crüe. You can buy painting, illustrations, and a smoking teddy bear!

Check out this work in progress of Plastic Kid’s stuff—from cradle to the grave.

Triplewide + Sneaker Pimps = Triple Pimps. Hella cool audio/visual multimedia projection animations (that sounds like it’s pre-internet…) Anyway, check out the vid.

I got an insider’s tip from upperplayground—this dude’s stuff sells out quick. This is my favorite one: Mishima (but it already sold)