Video directed by Hiroshi Kizu, featuring dancer Masako Yasumoto. From Warren Ellis’ blog:

Time to stock up on t-shirts from Tokyo Art Beat’s “Tokyo Collection #3,” with all designs on sale for 2500 yen until the end of the month. And remember, all proceeds go to help finance TAB and its various projects.

PingMag interviews illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, a name fans of anime and gaming should be be well familiar with.

PingMag covers the artist-in-residence program offered by Tokyo Wonder Site.

Last week I was at the Shin-Marunouchi Building to have lunch at Rigoletto with my wife, and checked out Nagi Noda, Shinji Konishi, and Asami Nemoto’s “Animal Behavior” hair hat exhibition (it’s on the Marunouchi House floor). It runs until May 6.

Pictured above, a tote bag being sold featuring Nagi Noda’s Hanpanda.

New York Art Beat launches! I really like that dark purple color scheme.

Digiki posts a 101TOKYO round-up, including links to coverage, and quite a few photos.

Earlier this week I went to the opening for the “Light Construction” exhibition at Center for Cosmic Wonder in Aoyama.

The show brings together Mike Mills, Elein Fleiss, Yoshimio, and Yukinori Maeda, and runs until June 30.

Hanging out inside this installation was quite nice.

I wanted to go and chat with Mike Mills — I quite like his work — but was too shy. I ended up having a good time with Liliyo though, OK Fredders Ay2 and Yoshi’s daughter.

Congrats to the Chin Music Press crew for the crowded book launch of ART SPACE TOKYO this past Tuesday. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, then it’s off to the AST site you go. I predict this will become their best-selling book. Yeah, it’s that good.

PingMag takes a look at the recent trend in Tokyo of organizing art projects on the fences that hide construction work. I think the first one I remember seeing was the one by KDa over the fence on Omotesando, during construction of Omotesando Hills.

Big thanks go out to Yuka Yamaguchi for contributing this piece, “Simple Minded,” to Neojaponisme. For those of you familiar with her work — maybe from her exhibition at Cafe Pause earlier this year — you’ll notice that this piece eschews colors and is a pencil-only piece (except for the bloody red homage to Neojaponisme’s site aesthetics). She says she quite enjoyed using pencils again, and is thinking of doing more works in the same way for an upcoming show in San Francisco.

Update
Yuka explains how she approached the piece.

Today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES has a piece by Justine Parker on foreign creators and journalists doing their thing in Japan’s art and design scene, and you should recognize quite a few of the names featured (yes, yours truly, as well as Pausetalk, get mentions).

A reader sent me the photo you see here, with the following message:

Has anyone else seen these?

Update
More on the A Bathing Shoko stickers over at Mutantfrog Travelogue.

PingMag presents a report of last week’s 101TOKYO contemporary art fair.

Yesterday I downloaded a program called Desktoptopia. Once installed, it changes up your desktop image — all taken from their large collection — at the frequency you decide on. The first image that appeared once I installed it was this great Devilrobots illustration, pictured above. How good is the service? I really don’t know, I liked the Devilrobots desktop so much I paused the rotation.