Satellite of Love: Vanishing Beauty of Japanese Love Hotels
Love hotels, nowadays they’re calling them “fashion hotels,” they’re calling them “boutique hotels.” What times are these we’re living in?
We Japanese are generally reputed to be “good at copying,” yet for some reason we seem to exercise the highest level of erotic originality in the world. From sopu “soaplands” (bathhouses) and imekura “image clubs” (costume role-playing) and deriheru “delivery health” (call-a-massage), mainstays of the sex-hire industry, to hi-tech adult toys, to lust-and-violence manga comics and pick-a-girl fuzoku magazines, the Japanese creative spirit would seem to be fixated on things erotic. And of course, there’s interior design’s erotic “true north”, the love hotel. Continue reading »
Ethan Hayes-Chute
Ethan Hayes-Chute was born in 1982 and grew up in Freeport, Maine. He has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Primarily a painter, Hayes-Chute also works with sculpture and self-published books on various topics.
HandMadeFont
We are an Estonia based design company HMF (HandMadeFont). It was founded in 2008 by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov. We spesialaze in developing of unique, untraditional fonts. We take inspiration from everything that surrounds us. On this website we offer completed fonts that You can buy and use freely.
RayD8gig
rayD8gig is an ultra-limited inverse color variant of the immensely popular MIMOBOT Core Series 2 character, rayD8. Only 200 of these 8GB glow-in-the-dark fiends were made, so get yours before they’re all gone! rayD8gig ships Friday, 10/10.
Sisters
Absolutely amazing photos of Jason Lee’s (photographer) young daughters – Kristina and Kayla.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Aya Takano
View of the exhibition “Aya Takano” in 2006 at Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, Lyon (France)
Takashi Murakami
“Kumo-kun (Mr Cloud)” 2002
Resin, acrylic / Résine, acrylique / 31 x 31 x 9 3/4 inches / 80 x 80 x 25 cm
Elmgreen Et Dragset
View of the exhibition “Disgrace” in 2006 at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami, Miami
View the rest of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.
sprath : construct
Sparth (Nicolas Bouvier) has been an active artistic director and concept designer in the gaming industry since 1996. Born in France, he now lives in Dallas, TEXAS, working for IDsoftware.
Designers for Elections 2008
Collar Free runs their Political Store contains the results of Obama & McCain political design competition.
Olaf Breuning
Olaf Breuning was born in 1970 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and lives and works in Zurich and New York.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Galerie Meyer & Kainer, Vienna, Association EDV, Toulouse, Metro Pictures, New York, Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, Museo Garillo Gil, Mexico City, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Swiss Institute, New York, Kunstverein Freiburg, Museum zu Allerheiligen; Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Centre d‘art contemporain, Geneva, Kunsthaus Glarus, Kunsthalle St.Gallen.
Wrong side of the Art
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING collection of horror, sci-fi, exploitation, cult, trash, B-movie posters. Highly recommended!!!
A lot of posters posters were collected thru the web with special attention to quality and the size at 1000 px and above.
Les Edwards
Les Edwards has been a professional illustrator for over thirty- five years. He has worked in many fields and areas but is best known for the huge number of book jackets he has produced in the Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror genres.
