i was looking for this shoko nakagawa x mika ninagawa photobook last year but never found it (too abnormal for normal bookstores and not perverted enough for perv bookstores?) - now i stopped looking, and forgotten about it, i’ve suddenly found a copy (at an art museum shop) shoko nakagawa (wikipedia states) is a japanese idol, [...]

anyone interested has probably read this news already but i’m obliged to follow up my own slightly ignorant post on this case the world’s latest most notorious anime/manga fanboy was sentenced last week to 6 months of jail, 5 years of probation, 3 years ban from using a computer plus psychological testing to diagnose and [...]

a labyrinthian megalopolis - viral holocaust - genetic mutation - sinister corporations - zombies - guns - violence - action - horror - apocalypse - cyberpunk - a talking grizzly bear and a cute girl in bunny fur - i’m into it! - e-versions of this have been around years but i much prefer real [...]

行こうと思っているうちに気がつけば最終日間近になってしまったレベッカ・ホルン展。 既に他の展示が始まった関係で、映画作品が別室でまとめて見ることができたので却って好都合でした。 buster's bedroom[1990] サイレント映画期の喜劇俳優、映画監督であるバ...

subject title line changed as yet another week slips past and still nothing has happened re the book the magazine feature rejections also continuing - a bizarre magazine editor contacted me re doing a piece on my alice stuff for vice magazine - supposedly they were “up for it” but nothing more has transpired - …yet…? but [...]

“trevor brown piece on roddies throat” [sic] why do throat tattoos always make you think psychopath / prison fodder? (the same as a forehead tattoo indicates moron!) - and the only thing more dubious than a tattooed spiderweb is a tattooed heart! - but i’m sure this roddie (or roddy?) must be a nice guy if [...]

saw this book at the bookstore import manga section and bought it because it looks so noticeably different (and god told me to?!) - and that is despite being put off by the “tearjerker” description (applied in numerous lengthy reviews of this all over the alt-comix blogs that i had previously skimmed over) along with [...]

listen-up nerdy kittlings, the game kat is back to tell you what owns in the world of console gaming - the first of regular reportage re what tb is frivolously wasting his time on this year darksiders: this got the sofa-bound controller-clutching decade off to a very fine start - this game is love - equal [...]

http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/gallery/100331alice/index.html

as far as i can make out this is a new mexican designer brand making t-shirts of infamous t-shirts - this one is at least correctly and clearly attributed as a trevor brown t-shirt design - all mention of a certain immature pop band of yesteryear removed from the shirt, so i doubt they got [...]

err, very little has happened since my last update two weeks ago - i’ve yet to see a redesign of the cover - will the book get done in time? - all that exists at the moment is a page order for the paintings - and my series of five “arisu k word” paintings have [...]

against my better judgement, and because i’m feeling kinda bored with time to waste, i thought i’d sign up to myspace (again) - an account dedicated to my alice book - unashamed self-promotion / free advertising (which is all anyone uses the site for) - signing up with my real email addresses i got messages [...]

we had a book meeting last night - mainly to decide the cover - their (my publisher’s) design proposal was something very victorian with fussy gothloli (or granny) borders, which i didn’t like - my design proposal a bit more punk with collaged images, which they didn’t like - i think we’ve reached a happy [...]

a predictable purchase for those knowing my penchant for seventies nostalgia - [a spate of backwards looking blog entries lately…!] - the blurb proclaims: “…will surely become the final word…” - or, more exactly, the final 200,000 words in this two inch thick brick of a book related post

15th anniversary of the kobe earthquake also the trevor/konomi marriage anniversary - a ridiculous three month bureaucratic paper-chase ordeal that was! - january 17 being the day we finally got a bit of paper with agreement from all parties we were officially married

pic:yasuji watanabe costume,hair&make:akio namiki(kurarasystem) 近作のひとつ。モデルのあゆみちゃん第一回撮影。クララシステムとのコンポジション。 適度に古びた池尻大橋のマンションの一室が生成りの色彩に一役買ってるかも。 pic:yasuji watanabe ...

…and why do you believe it is or isn’t? it’s the tenth anniversary of when i ran that question on a “baby art survey” - at the time it seemed to be a crucial quandary - not particularly for me or fans of my work but certainly for interviewers - the tiresome hearing of that question [...]

pic:yasuji watanabe costume:mika ochiai 喪の淑女は蛍光ピンクの下着を穿いて亡夫を偲び、妄想と現実との狭間を被虐的に表現する。 という大雑把なテーマだけで、あとは小道具に熱中したアミダセブン第二作。 由緒正しい老舗ホテルにキャラバンで乗りつけて白眼...

once again something that’s cropped up in previous blog comments that i feel worthy of a post of it’s own - model is janet fishietto. photographer is sarah langiu (as you might gather from the watermark)

pic:yasuji watanabe hair&make:kei body painting:atsushi suwa 出演者８名の大所帯で本物のお寺でロケ。凝りまくっていた頃のアミダセブン第4回目作品。 真夏の酷暑でお堂に籠りっきりで撮影したのも今となってはいい思い出です。 モデルは[AKAI HANA]のmariさ...

trevor original (from an idea donated by konomi) - i wasn’t really happy with it - but it seems to strike a chord with some she “can’t staaaaand” her hair in this photo - i guess that’s pretty apt as i don’t like the hair in my painting either - snap by nazif topcuoglu postscript!: this has [...]

pic:yasuji watanabe costume:mika ochiai hair&make:satomi wada 「坂の上の廃墟カフェ」と題したアミダセブンもの。 サイトのポートフォリオにも[Remain in my room]というタイトルで掲載中。 撮影場所が廃墟なので、あえてなるべく廃墟っぽくなくしようという...

pic:yasuji watanabe　　 hair&make:lala これも[The portrait of innocent girls through the amidacamera](2006)に掲載したもの。 モデルはrinoちゃんという娘で、眠そうな眼のアンニュイな感じだが屈託のある風情が謎めいていたような記憶。 既出はバストアッ...

あけましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくおねがいします。 今年は暦的に三箇日で休みが終わってしまい、 松の内からバタバタと仕事に入り、落ち着きの少ないお正月ですね。 年末に突如行なった「unedit」展ですが、明けてから作品を引き上げてきましたので、 ...

dates have now been set for my bunkamura exhibition: 31 march (wed) to 11 april (sun), 2010 this is another shock jump forward in time - not so much for me but does put pressure on my co-exhibitor, yuriko yamayoshi, wanting to get more work done - and of course my publisher, editions treville, wanting to [...]