French Artist Pays Tribute to Araki Bondage with a Chicken
Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the best living photographers. He has published over 350 books and is considered one of the most productive artists around the world. Many of his photos are erotic. He is best known for his pictures of bondage, with young women tied and often suspended and entangled in rope.
Now, a young French artist, Benjamin Deroche, has made a series of photos in honour of the master: Tribute to Araki. He has tried to reproduce with a dead chicken the pictures of bondage, with odd, but also disturbing, effects. In a interview given to Liberation’s blog Zoum Zoum, Deroche says Araki is one of his favourite photographers. Goodness knows what Araki thinks about it.
Dining with a Ninja
In Tokyo, there is a restaurant where, after lunch, a Ninja master teaches how to move like a shadow and to cast metal stars: it’s the last odd tourist offer in Japan. The tourists, put on the regulation black suit, learn taijutsu (unarmed body combat skills). Then they enjoy themselves with Ninja weapons like the Katana (a sabre), the Bo (a very long stick) and the mythic Shuriken, the rotating blades: it’s an excellent way of digesting a meal. The Japanese tour operator H.I.S Experience Japan has, among its offers, “A day in the life of a Sumo Wrestler” too. I have already booked it. But I hope to not have to put on a Mawashi.
Photo by Laurence Whittemore
Monsters are not Welcome in China
A few months ago, the Chinese government launched a moralizing campaign against erotic shows. Now it prohibits the sale of videos containing “elements of mystery and horror” that can compromise “children’s and teens’ character formation”. The government also exhorts the producers to remove horror elements in the movies under production as well. Last May, Beijing banned horror comics, become a must among Chinese teens. The initiative was taken following the big success of Death Note, a comic book that told in detail any type of awful death, pledging that if the reader had written a person’s name in it, the poor thing would have died within a few days. I hope this comic never ends up in the hands of my ex.
Photo by taichi_UK
Chinese Gay Pride
Photo credit: Dois gais by Thiago Fonseca
Yesterday the China Daily published a mini reportage about homosexuality, whit a photo portraying two Chinese men’s ardent kiss as well. Read it! It’s very interesting and really revolutionary too. As a matter of fact, the China Daily is the mouthpiece of a country which, until few years ago, jailed the gays. Have a good read.
