Dreams That Move
Posted on June 26, 2011. Filed under: anime, Creating, events, workshops | Tags: animation, anime, Balenciaga, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Cinema, Basho, Chinese animation, Fan Ming, Hayao Miyazaki, Helen McCarthy workshops, Ippei Okamoto, Osamu Tezuka, Princess Iron Fan, Reza Ben Gajra, Tadahito Mochinaga |
I spend a generous proportion of my time with some of the greatest creative intelligences the world has ever known (definitely more than I spend on housework, admin, and the perpetual hunt for that missing sock.) It’s a never-failing source of delight and energy to explore the worlds of people like Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
Posted on October 15, 2010. Filed under: Consuming, costume, designing, events, history, Japan | Tags: Astro Boy, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Cinema, Erté, Fortuny, GirlsWorld, Hiroaki Ohya, Janek Schaefer, Japan, Japanese street fashion, Junya Watanabe, Madeleine Vionnet, manga, Paul Poiret, Rei Kawakubo, Satoshi Kon, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Yohji Yamamoto |
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is at the Barbican Art Gallery until February 2011. Everyone interested in Japanese culture should see it.
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Posted on February 12, 2010. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films, history, Japan | Tags: Barbican Cinema, D. W. Griffith Orphans of the Storm, Great Kanto Earthquake, Group TAC, James Cameron Avatar, Jonathan Clements, Lilian and Dorothy Gish, Natsuki Matsumoto Noboyuki Tsugata, Osamu Tezuka, Photoplay Productions, Planet Bibliotheque de Cinema, Shigeru Mizuki, silent black and white film, The Anime Encyclopedia, Yoshitsugu Tanaka Perrault |
The early history of film has been rescued and reconstructed by dedicated enthusiasts all over the world.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Kyoto Tezuka Osamu World: bite-size museum screens unique titles
Posted on July 17, 2009. Filed under: anime, Japan, manga, travel | Tags: anime, Astro Boy, Barbican Cinema, Japan, Kyoto, Kyoto International Manga Museum, MW, Osamu Tezuka, Philip Brophy, Takarazuka, Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum |
Kyoto’s Tezuka Osamu World is right by Japan’s most astonishing railway station, and despite its tiny size it has its own special attractions.
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