by joostay
Because what else would you be doing on a Saturday morning?
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Bizarre/Unique, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: abba, abban, asia, bizarre, blog, culture, ikimasho, japan, japanese, justin egli, kawasaki, music, photography, tokyo, travel, weird
by joostay
Teddy needs a vacation… to JAPAN! OK, this is quite possibly the most adorable thing I have ever heard of. Unagi Travel is a tour agency based in Tokyo – but instead of dealing with regular customers, they specialise in arranging customised trips for stuffed animals. Basically you send your teddy to Tokyo and they take it round the sights, taking pictures for you and uploading the adventure onto social media such as Instagram and Facebook. The service is popular with those who can’t travel […]
Categories: Bizarre/Unique, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, backpacking, bizarre, cute, design, fun, ikimasho, japan, japanese, justin egli, photography, stuffed toy, teddy, tokyo, tours, travel, vacation, weird
by joostay
Check out my video for the new BENDING WRONGS track, Computer Controlled Hamster. Using never-before-seen archive footage it tells the true story of how during World War 2, Allied forces secretly built a number of Computer Controlled Hamsters (CCH) that were dropped behind enemy lines to help win the war. [Music: BENDING WRONGS // Visuals: IKIMASHO!] soundcloud.com/monty_81
Categories: Art: stuff I've drawn, Bizarre/Unique • Tags: acid, aphex twin, bending wrongs, bizarre, colin montgomery, culture, design, electronica, hamster, history, idm, industrial, justin egli, music, surreal, video, visual art, war, weird, world war 2
by joostay
Anklepants delivers his infection selection for Ikimasho! Ikimasho! cordially invites you to meet Anklepants – the first of many faces of Dr. Reecard Farché, the devious mastermind and shapeshifting convict bred deep in the darkwood of the Australian bush that later absconded to Rise to the Summit of the übergründé. Born in 2008 but producing music in many forms for over a decade beforehand, Anklepants has steadily released over 20 singles, EPs and full-length albums on his own Qwerty Records imprint, with […]
Categories: YOUTUBE SESSIONS • Tags: animatronics, anklepants, art, bizarre, breakcore, culture, design, electronica, film, idm, ikimasho, japan, mechanical, mic, music, robot, sex, star wars, surreal, tokyo, travel, weird
by joostay
LIVING IN JAPAN – AND WHY IT ISN’T AS WEIRD AS PEOPLE THINK (OK, IT IS A BIT WEIRD). Justin Egli. Who’s this guy? I’ll tell you who this guy is. It’s some random guy I met on the subway on my birthday in Tokyo a few years back. A crowd of us had just went to a strip club and I had been given a spray can of “Instant Smelly Shit” as a present. Looking back, it was quite […]
Categories: Bizarre/Unique, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: arcades, biffo, bizarre, blog, digitiser, final fantasy, games, gaming, ikimasho, japan, japanese, nintendo, surreal, tokyo, weird
by joostay
Bending Wrongs is Colin Montgomery from Bangor in Northern Ireland. I’ve been mates with Monters for over 20 years and he’s always been a talented bastard when it comes to tunes. Check out his latest track, Hellride 3, above. Visuals by IKIMASHO! BENDING WRONGS / Acid / Industrial / Experimental / Noise Contact Colin if you’d like to book him, work with him or say hello. soundcloud.com/monty_81 / colin.montgomery@sky.com / twitter: @Monty_1981
Categories: Art: stuff I've drawn, Bizarre/Unique • Tags: 303, acid, bending wrongs, breakcore, colin montgomery, design, electronica, footwork, fucked up, idm, ikimasho, industrial, japan, music, noise, roland, surreal, tokyo, video, visual, weird
by joostay
Auste-what? Learning about this tiny country from its new Consul General for Northern Ireland. Stories really don’t get any more obscure and fascinating than the one I am about to share with you regarding the tiny micronation of Austenasia – a landlocked country whose border with the UK is merely a line separating a driveway from a footpath in the south London suburb of Carshalton. The country has a flag, a border and a government. It even has an Emperor […]
Categories: Bizarre/Unique, Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: allan wilson, austenasia, bizarre, blogging, country, fitness, ikimasho, independence, japan, jonny blair, justin egli, micronation, story, tokyo, travel, uk, weird, wrythe
by joostay
Delving deep into the soul of a three-year-old
Categories: Kindergarten Life • Tags: art, asia, culture, david lynch, hell, horror, japan, kindergarten, lynch, nin, nine inch nails, surreal, teaching, tokyo, weird
by joostay
“Every space has its own sound, according to its shape and material, and it has already been singing long before you entered it.” A few weeks back I attended the Tokyo Experimental Festival where I saw a performance by vocalist and cross-media artist, Ami Yamasaki. The space was limited to 20 people, the walls covered with thousands of origami feathers to catch and diversify the sounds of the room. Of course, a quiet space is never truly quiet, and so […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Ami Yamasaki, art, blog, culture, ikimasho, installation, japan, justin egli, Ochanomizu, performance, surreal, TEF, till a quiet room sings, tokyo, tokyo experimental festival 2015, Tokyo Wonder Site, voice, weird
