Yōkai are a group of supernatural Japanese monsters, kind of similar to our notion of ghosts. The kanji (or symbol) that describes the Yōkai is made up of two other symbols meaning “bewitching; attractive; calamity” and...
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These Japanese posters, mostly produced in the 60s and 70s, look so current and on-point that I was quite taken aback when I found them. I shouldn’t have been astounded though, art and culture is cyclical, as...
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I don’t know if I’m late to the party here, has anyone else seen fat manga characters before? I stumbled across an artist on Deviant Art the other day called Trinity-Fate and I...
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“Living fossil” isn’t a scientific term, but it is used fairly frequently, especially in the lay media by people like me. For the purpose of this article, a living fossil is a species that...
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Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that anything impressive happened in the entertainment industry before X-Factor. However, it is important to remember that people have always been weird, mental, skillful and obsessed with nuance. Richard Risley...
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Here’s your fifth installment of the Global Selfie Project where we stare at people from around the world. The premise is simple, I wanted to collate a selfie from every country in the world,...
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As the name suggests an octopus generally has 8 tentacles (or arms as they’re supposed to be called) and that’s normally the way it goes. Nature is good with numbers it seems and if...
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I came across the art of Vania Zouravliov whilst I was putting together a post about the macabre and the beautifuly grotesque and I must admit I was taken aback. Zouravliov was born in Russia and was...
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Last night I was searching for photos of Japanese fans of the rock band Kiss. I thought there might be some cool pictures. As it turns out if you Google “Japanese kiss fans”...
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