Ride Or Die ... Japan ...
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What the F... Check this out ! That's real shit ... ( Thanks to Dren for the link )
And for the ones who missed my first post on that phenom , here is a little background : Ride Or Die, The Japanese Way ...
Livin' La Vida Loca ...
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Get a glimpse of Montreal through the eyes of a lovely couple I had the pleasure to meet in Bordeaux , on basketball courts outside . Olivier & Margarita have decided to build a new life in the great north . In french ...
Récit d'une aventure morderne au Canada. Les préparatifs, le Jour J et une nouvelle vie qui commence sur les traces de milliers d'immigrants... ...Mais aussi une de mes passions, le basket!
Bonne chance les amis , ou plutôt "merde" comme on dit par chez nous !
Ride Or Die ... Bordeaux ...
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It happened last April , a Sunday during an endless afternoon , with the wind , the cold and sometimes the rain , but it happened . Organized with difficulties the weeks before due to the schedules of each one , the ride was a big success , with nearly twenty custom bikes reunited for the first time here in the heart of Bordeaux .
It was a delicious moment , so good the Custom Brigad Folks are already planning a new ride near Bordeaux by the sea . And I can tell you I am definitively looking forward a new meeting .
All pics on the following link : Mrik Myself And I
All pics courtesy of Aymeric Parker .
Game's Pain ...
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Some good vibes from California for you , just in time to celebrate the return of the Lakers to the final quartet , after their tremendous win yesterday in Salt Lake City against "Karl Malone & John Stockton" .
GANGSTA
I love L.A. !!!
Who Got It On Lock ...
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"Who Got It On Lock Featuring Doo Wop" off of "Back to the Future" Mixtape in stores now !
Interlude ...
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Cherry Pop Exhibition by Jahan Loh in Taipei
Bloc 28 ( Disney through the eyes of unconventional artists) Exhibition in Hong Kong
Nike 6.0 Lightning Bolts Bmx Exhibition in Beijing
Insa Exhibition at Extrabold in Luxembourg
Bulletproof? laptop backpack
The one and only Batmobile for sale
New York City vs Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto IV) side by side comparison
Kanye returns in his spaceship for the 25th Anniversary of the Casio G-Shock (Video of his live performance)
And for my french fellows ... La Fin Du Film
Fantasy ...
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"Takashi Murakami is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media , such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media . He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art . He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture , then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures , "Superflat" paintings , or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies .
Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music , initially studying more traditionalist Japanese art . He pursued a doctorate in Nihonga , a mixture of Western and Eastern styles dating back to the late 19th century . However , due to the mass popularity of anime and manga , Japanese styles of animation and comic graphic stories , Murakami became disillusioned with Nihonga , and became fixated on otaku culture , which he felt was more representative of modern day Japanese life .
This resulted in Superflat , the style that Murakami is credited with starting . It developed from Poku , (Pop + otaku). Murakami has written that he aims to represent Poku culture because he expects that animation and otaku might create a new culture . This new culture being a rejuvenation of the contemporary Japanese art scene . This is what it is all about to Murakami ; he has expressed in several interviews in the last five or six years the frustration that his art has risen from . It is a frustration rooted in the lack of a reliable and sustainable art market in post-war Japan , and the general view of Japanese art in and outside the country as having a low art status . He is quoted as saying that the market is nothing but "a shallow appropriation of Western trends" . His first reaction was to make art in non-fine arts media , but decided instead to focus on the market sustainability of art and promote himself first overseas . This marks the birth of KaiKai Kiki , LLC ."
Takashi Murakami with the support of Louis Vuitton , the friendship of Marc Jacobs , Pharrell , Kanye or Nigo from BAPE has recently invaded the US soil , his exhibition landing in Los Angeles and then New York . Check the stories below to get a glimpse of his universe :
Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum
Opening Night at the Brooklyn Museum
Takashi Murakami Monogramouflage for Louis Vuitton
Fighting the fakes : Louis Vuitton and Murakami make a show of it
Kaikai Kiki
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