Coming across an artist for the first and being blown away is always exciting.. and that is exactly what the of Yosuke Ueno does. He is an artist based in Japan who has had exhibitions through out the world. You can similarities in his style to other surreal, low brow and modern artists but that is no bad thing. Now I will pray that Yosuke Ueno one day comes to London.

Make sure you check out the website and the blog. [via Startdrawing]

A neat introduction to YouTube Japan… featuring a Japanese beatboxer and Japanese Graffiti artist.

Apparently according to Vinyl Abuse, Bigshot Toyworks has decided to be the company to handle producing Nathan Jerevicius’s newest figures, that are very Kaiju-inspired. In my opinion from the looks of it? I’ve not a big fan of Kaiju, but in spite of that, Nathan’s figures are superb! I love them! See for yourself and decide
[via Vinyl Abuse]

Two of Katsushika Hokusai’s classics have been recreated by farmers in Japan as crop art using coloured rice plants which is mixed with the usual crop. This is the is not the first piece of crop art as these farmers have been doing this since 1993 as you can see here.
[via Core77]

I have no idea what Nintendo was thinking when they created this commercial for one of the greatest games ever, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES. With so much going for the game they had plenty of ways to show of the game. But we all know that Nintendo like to do things differently and at least we now know how they party in Hyrule.
[via The Retro Review Project]

We all now that the Japanese love doing things to the most extreme and these vans are further proof of that. Pink Tentacle has put together a list of places to view Extreme Japanese custom vans and there are some quite outrageously over the top designs with some featuring stunning art work. Now my car just looks plain boring…
[via Boing Boing]

METEOR in Tokyo is running an exhibition of art designed Famicon cartridges called “My Famicase Exhibition“. There is tons of great Eastern style art work to check out but its just a shame we cant read what they say. [via Kotaku]