http://matadorstudy.com/10-japanese-customs-you-must-know-before-a-trip-to-japan/
Several great tips that may just save your western ass an embarrassing faux pas or two in the Land of the Rising Sun. We wouldn’t want to make ourselves look like crass buffoons on our trip to Japan.
Especially during Kanamara Matsuri.
http://kuejon.stumbleupon.com/
Meet Kuejon:
Top Notch. I’m a long time fan of this art-hound. Fills his site with the very best of the unknown and unseen, thats been dwelling too long on the fringe.
http://www.girlsareskanks.com/
This site has even less substance than Maxim magazine. Its only points of focus are fast cars and sexy hine’ends. Of coarse I adore it already.
DolceQ. Another great (and especially raunchey) example of Post-Commercialism art. When I see this, it reminds me of women who smell vaguely of cigarettes and the inside of a Spencer’s Gifts store. Usually my favorite kind of gal.
http://www.gianfrancomeza.com/indices/18Recuenco.htm
Eugenio Recuenco. Extraordinary photographer that enjoys using a wide variety of effects on his strangely retro subject mater. Overexposure, underexposure, impossible contrast; whatever the methods, it produces photography that may have well been taken on Mars.
http://ritemail-amazing.blogspot.com/
The rider of this velocipede can travel up to 82 miles on a single gallon of gas. He also manages to go well over a year between condom purchases.
http://dontclickthis.whatingods.name/
Hungry or horny?
(if you say yes to either of these, you may be Japanese)
http://www.nickdewar.com/nick_dewar_illustration_pictures.php
Nick Dewar. An artist that is a little reminiscent of Daniel Clowes, but cleaner and a little more upsetting. Great stuff.
http://www.agonyagogo.com/frame2.html
Wow. I actually discovered something really cool. Here’s a collection of art that celebrates “agony” of all things.
Apparently this Agony A-Go-Go is a “secret nightclub” where a clandestine society of club owners, artists, designers, and DJs plan the direction of what will be trendy and ultra cool tomorrow… sort of a “Funky Illuminati” of sorts. Hhhhmmm…. dubious claims…..
http://mrtoledano.com/frame_portraits.php
Phillip Toledano photography. Windows into the secret lives of ordinary people. Thanks Max.
http://maxshreck.stumbleupon.com/
Meet MaxShreck:
If Nosferatu or Frank Zappa were here today, they would be proud to be a part of his widely varied aesthetic.
SARACANITE 