Sometimes life is uncooperative. The consequences extend from our highest functions to the lowest corners of the cultural gutter. Here, friends, is the result of my non-compliant life situation: a list of things that make me think of other things, loosely organized around the theme of absurd horror-comedies! […]
Imprint Magazine puts Jack Kirby’s collage in an art history context.
This Japanese Life provides some historical context for Kinji Fukasaku’s film, Battle Royale–including an incident from Fukasaku‘s own life as a student drafted into a munitions factory, writer Yukio Mishima and the Hagakure: “Since the film deliberately omits much of the novel’s WW2-inspired alternative reality, I look at Kitano […]
7 Japanese women responsible for “some of the greatest games ever to ever grace the store shelves.”
Artist Yusuke Murata displays the awesome power of paper in an amazing comic about an artist avoiding his work. (Thanks, Andrew!)
Images from the Japan Society’s “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945.” (Thanks, Cyril!)
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The Cultural Gutter 