Posts Tagged ‘Art & Artists アート’

ごっつえぇマシン!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

sticker flaking nastiness

僕のPAUL ROGERSマシンのコイルがはげていたんで変えようとおもった。マシンの大事な部品なので守らなくちゃあかん。

The coils on my Paul Rogers shader started balding so I thought I’d try my hand at sealing them.

bald coils

まず、前のビニールの全てを綺麗にとる。コイルが全裸まで!
えぇっと…そして、デザインが要る。なんでか知らんけど自分の絵を使うのは嫌。でもせっかく二つのコイルがあるので漫才のコンビを使おうと思った。(やっぱりダウンタウン!)ネットで画像を検索したけどあまりえぇやつは出てこなかった。

First, scraped off the old cruft.
Um… Then think about a design. Since there are two coils, I thought Osaka manzai comedians (they come in pairs as well) would fit perfectly. (Starting with Downtown) But I couldn’t get any good image results on the net…

bannar-cbs08

その時、この人のブログを発見した!(Cuttingsweetbitter)KATOさんは東京のアーティストや。切り絵は無茶苦茶上手い!!ばっちりのダウンタウンの絵ものっていた!でも勝手に使っちゃNGかなぁと思って、KATOさんにメールを送って、使う許可をお願いした。

Until that is, I stumbled upon this site “Cutting Sweet Bitter. This guy Kato is a Tokyo artist who specialized in ‘kirie’ or images cut out of a single sheet of paper. I didn’t want to just use it and post it here, so I mailed Kato and asked for his permission.

a design appears!

個人用(売り物じゃない)やからOKサインがでて(どうもありがとうございました!!)マシンの修理を進んだ。大きさを図ってプリントアウトした。(どう?このカッティングマット?)

Kato said cool since it was for personal use (Thank you!!!) and I was able to continue on with my repairs. First measure the size (to get the length of ‘wrap’ simple use some pi action on the radius of the coil and then tack on a couple millimeters for overlap) – PS like that cutting sheet?

color sides on thick paper

でもやっぱり白いコピー用紙はしょぼいな。もう一回デザインのバックを黒くしてちゃんと写真用紙にだす。写真用紙自体は分厚いからちゃんと横も黒く塗らんとみえる。

But Copy paper is crummy and cheap and gets dirty easily I discovered… So I remade the image with a black background, printed it on proper photo paper and colored the ‘white’ edges so they wouldn’t stand out.

shrink tube

そして切って、チューブに入れて、並ぶ!最後は火をつけて、熱でチューブがシュッ!としまる。

Next cut, stick inside the tube, line it up, and then shrink the tube with a lighter.

ジャーン! Downtown Shader!!!

要らない部分を切って、組み立て直して(コイルの並びを気をつけながら!)、出来上がり!大阪のダウンタウンがのっているタトゥーマシン!

Slice off the excess, reassemble the machine, make sure the coils are realigned properly and bam! A Downtown shader with some personality!

The Good Book – by Hori-Shige

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Shige - the book

Got my hands on it today. Congratulations Shige – you deserve it brother!!
今朝、手に入ったぁ!!しげさん、御目出度う御座います!

(This volume is amazing. Not only because of the quality of it’s content but also because it’s simply a beautiful tome – from the layout to the nomenclature… including the new book smellTM! Beautifully done. If you’re reading this and didn’t reserve your copy I’d get on it – this is a limited edition – especially in Japan. )
(本当に素敵な画集や。内容だけじゃなくて、「SHIGE」自体もほんまに美しく出来上がっている。もちろん、僕の大好きな新品本の香りまで!頼まなかった人、本当におすすめやで!限定発売なんではよせんときえてまぅでぇ!)

Settsu X Horie クルー!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Settsu Crew!

TNSのなおきさんとKNUCKLE ENERGYのKNUCKLEさんが遊びにきたぁイン堀江ぇ!!
こんあいだのギャラリーはほんまにえぇ感じだった!ご苦労様です!

Naoki and Knuckle came out to wrap up the last day of their Horie gallery show today. Amazing work, if you made it over to Absinthe to see it!

これから摂津x堀江のコラボが生まれたらウゥレしぃ!よろしクゥゥお願いします!

Psyched at the possibilities of future Settsu x Horie collaborations! Cheers!

Forget Pig Flu, Get Bunny Fever! Let’s going バニーガール病!!

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Beautiful Bunny-chan Vinyl Stickers!

Beautiful Bunny-chan Vinyl Stickers!

Bunny Girl Fever in Horie! New Kira-Kira sparkling stickers are here! And you are oh-so-close to having one! These things are durable enough to survive a nuclear holocaust! Ordered them from stickerguy like a month ago and they finally arrived!

バニーちゃん病発生中イン堀江!!!超キラキラ超可愛い!超ベリグー!みんなの手に入りそうところに置いてあるよんん!ぶあついビニールに印刷して色はずっと綺麗に残るタイプ。アメリカの有名なスティッカー印刷達人STICKERGUYから頼んで、やっと届いたぁ!

Bunny Girl sez Buy!

Bunny Girl sez Buy!

Osaka Love Doll!

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

bookweb

Event Flyer

この度、LUKAS・ZPIRAの最新写真集『TOKYO LOVE DOLL』が発売される事になりました!つきましては、5月6日(水)に肥後橋のELIXIRで、リリースパーティーが行われます。

皆様のご来場をお待ちしています!!

Lukas and Satomi Zpira have been hard at work producing this opus – a beautiful collection of photos well worth the wait! Unfortunately there are only a very limited number of units available in Japan… but cheer up! Luckily for everyone here in Kansai there will be an Osaka release party (in addition to the Tokyo release a few days before)! The Kansai Edition of the Tokyo Love Doll release party will be held on May 6th (Wednesday) at the Elixir art space in Higobashi beginning at 9PM.

If you are not familiar with the photography of Lukas Zpira you’ll be in for a real treat! The artist and model will both be on hand for meets and greets (as well as yours truly, to get his own copy.)

See you there!
リリパーで会おう!

(PS – I hear tell there will be special edition Postcards available for purchase at the event!)
イベント現場

elixir-map

INFORMATION:

Publisher (出版社):ed.treville / pan exotica
Admission is FREE 入場無料
Book Price: ¥4000

Dakota house 1F 1-23-30 Edobori Nishi-ku Osaka
〒550-0002 大阪市西区江戸堀1-23-30 ダコタハウス1F
TEL.06-6444-2001
営業時間 : 11:30 〜 Late / 定休日 日曜日・祝日
CLOSED Sundays & Holidays
www.elixircafebar.com

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Being the occasionally bilingual journal of a Professional Ex-Pat Tattooist trained and apprenticed in Osaka Japan.