by joostay
I have a plan. It’s to design a ridiculously simple cartoon character, flog it to the Japanese public and make my millions. And why not? It’s what NHK did when they created Domo. It’s what Banpresto did when they dreamt up Kapibara-San. And it’s e…
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Uncategorized
by joostay
So I guess I’ve reached a new low. The photo above I like to call ‘Drunk Salaryman taking a piss’ and was taken in Shinjuku Station after one-too-many beers at a Korean restaurant. Why exactly I decided to set my camera on timer while standing at …
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by joostay
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with illustration. I go through intense periods of drawing a lot, or absolutely nothing at all. It’s frustrating. Right now I’m in the nothing-at-all stage – but the last few days I’ve had recoccuring ideas…
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Uncategorized
by joostay
Sitting by the side of the road at 12am on a plastic bucket wearing a pair of traditional Japanese tabi boots, Rikimaru Toho is a hard man to ignore. Scaterred around him lie 20-30 Manga novels, each and every one crumpled and dog-eared – the sign…
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Uncategorized
by joostay
So rainy season has officially started – and I have the hellish mosquito bites and soaking shoes to prove it. As you would expect, the sun shone all week but once the weekend came it decided to severely piss down. Sod’s law. Saying that, it was an…
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by joostay
I do sometimes think that god, or Buddha, or whoever is up there was smoking a shitload of crack when he designed Japan. The same thing could be said for Japanese illustrator, Toshitaka Nabata, who is responsible for giving birth to Kobito Dukan -…
Categories: Bizarre/Unique • Tags: bizarre, japan, kids, kimokawaii, kobito dukan, strange, surreal, tokyo, toy, urban, weird
by joostay
The other week I stumbled across an article online entitled ‘Fun Facts about Japan.’ The first fun fact informed me how the average Japanese person watches an average of 4 hours and 29 minutes of television every day – the highest in the world. “O…
Categories: Travel: Inside Japan, Uncategorized
