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May 24, 2005
Takashi Murakami's "Little Boy" Exhibition Hits New York
Takashi Murakami is probably Japan's hottest and best known young contemporary artist. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Murakami has nutured a stable of Japanese artists who share an aesthetic style he dubbed "Superflat" a few years ago. Now Murakami has curated an exhbition at the Japan Society in New York called "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture." The exhbition further explores what he sees as the core of contemporary Japanese art and artistic subcultures its myriad influences as derived from his homeland's post-war pop culture. This is not to be missed. if you can't get to NYC to see it, check out the book. The exhbitions runs through July 24.
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The Japan Society Website: Current Events
Posted by Thurston Ali at 10:30 PM
May 10, 2005
"Ofical" [sic] Bathing Ape Web Site Finally Launched in Japan!
Devoted BAPE headz (Bapesters?) long frustrated by the lack of a navigable official BAPE Web site and the dearth of information on their favorite designer and brand can now, at least, take some minimal comfort in the knowledge that the aforementioned Web site has now launched.
The URL for the official BAPE site is www.bape.com.
(Which is not to be confused with www.bathingape.com, a site owned by a small British company that's been squatting on the name for a long time. But enough Web talk.)
The official Bathing Ape Web site looks great when you get to the homepage. It's mostly in Japanese, but basic intuition will lead you to hit the Download button. Doing so will save a file to your computer's desktop and launch a Bathing Ape camaflouge pattern graphic design Flash sequence that changes colors several times. The animated Flash piece ends with a Bathing Ape-style desktop interface, complete with a menu bar (which is virtually useless) that includes a Japanese flag icon.
Speaking of icons, once you've quit the application, it will leave a BAPE icon on your machine, which is kind of cool if you want to copy the icon and use it for other files on your machine. Anyway, we think it's kind of funny that the official BAPE website managed to correctly spell "official" on the homepage itself, but misspelled it as "OFICAL" in the title HTML tag for the Web site.
Essential Linkage
BAPE.COM | A BATHING APE OFICAL SITE
Posted by Thurston Ali at 01:20 PM | Comments (1)