Jemapur - Maledict Car (Dir. Kosai Sekine)
Tokyo gets mirror-tweaked to kaleidoscopic effect in Jemapur’s “Maledict Car” video directed by Kosai Sekine (produced by W+K Tokyo Lab). Sekine’s previous work includes the quirky “Right Place,” which won the best short film award at Cannes in 2006.

Kosai Sekine - Right Place

Mexican tattoo artist Dr Lakra is known for drawing macabre designs on found objects and images. During a visit to Japan last year, he inked hardcore tattoos on some fine antique ukiyo-e woodblock prints purchased at used bookstores. Some of these works were included in the “Goth” exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art in […]

Smooth nylon shrimp (Heterocarpus laevigatus) inhabiting the dark depths of the Pacific employ a brilliant method of defense. When threatened with attack, the creature spits a cloud of bioluminescent blue fluid from its mouth, temporarily blinding its predator and allowing escape.

This rarely seen footage of the smooth nylon shrimp’s defense mechanism in action was […]

These ferociously awesome custom rides were spotted in a parking lot near Tokyo.

Check out photographer ch.knuckles’ Flickr photoset for more.
[Via: Bouncing Red Ball]
See also:
- Extreme Japanese custom vans
- Japanese custom scooters
- Dekotora photo galleries
- Itasha: Pimped rides, otaku style

A well-choreographed troupe of synchronized (and anonymized) high divers splash it up for Denki Groove in the new “Fake It!” video. Directed by Hideyuki Tanaka.

[Link: Denki Groove - Fake It!]
More:
- Denki Groove videos
- Video: Mononoke Dance

“A Dream To Have In Heaven” (Tengoku De Miru Yume - 天国でみる夢) by Maki Sasaki is a surreal non-narrative one-shot manga published in the November 1967 issue of the now-defunct Garo, an alternative manga monthly magazine that peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The Tokyo-based Groovisions motion graphic design crew has created a stylishly animated educational video for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), which highlights some of the issues surrounding the future of food in Japan.

In the video, Groovisions use their hallmark playful-yet-ordered sim-like virtual landscape to illustrate a host of food-related challenges facing Japan. […]

Recycle artist Masataka Koike creates realistic-looking marine life sculptures from used wooden chopsticks. This octopus, which took eight months to complete, is made of 2,000 chopsticks.

Chopstick octopus

Flickr user modern_fred’s Japanese movie monster scan collection includes a few vintage illustrations detailing the innards of Godzilla and other famous kaiju.
Godzilla
This anatomical sketch of Godzilla reveals a relatively small brain, giant lungs that allow underwater breathing, leg muscles that can support 20,000 tons of body weight, and a “uranium sack” and “nuclear reaction […]

Freelance creative designer Ryosuke Tei has done a few animated motion IDs for MTV Asia/China that are inspired by Saiyuki (”Journey to the West“), the classic Chinese adventure novel about a monk’s trek to India in search of Buddhist texts.
In the first video, followers of the monk Genjo Sanzo (Xuanzang) psychically transmit a message from […]