I sold my soul to the art devil.
My life is basically about art and making people smile.
Also join my Art Club so we can collab.
Putting a smile on people who have a shitty life because life is too short to be depressed.
Stay positive and collaborate with as many people as I can whether they are an artist or not. Through collaborations, my goal is to make talented people known to the world.
Never regret.
Full-time dreamers.
These characters make my story interesting
I'm loved.
Pink Dead Whale, Jethro Tull, Soul Coughing, John Cage, Kraftwerk, Regina Spektor, Ted leo and the pharmacist, Rogue wave, Frou Frou, Death Cab for Cutie, Nizlopi, Boards of Canada, White Stripes, Kings of Convenience, Belle and Sebastian, Metric, Maximo Park, Elliott Smith, Fischspooner, Louix XIV, The Dresden Dolls, The Unicorns, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Muse, !!!, Of Montreal, The The, Electric Light Orchestra, Yeah yeah yeahs, Modest Mouse, The Violent Femmes, The Shins, Pinback, Pillows, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Andres Segovia, The Cranberries, The b52s, Queen, The Kinks, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, The Who, Beck, Outkast, Juana Molina ~and many more
Little Miss Sunshine, Chinatown, Amelie, The Five Obstructions, Bringing Up Baby, Storytelling, Rear Window, M, Dirty Harry, Dr. Strangelove: or How I stopped worrying and love the bomb, Y tu mamá también, Elephant, Scarface (the original version), Sherlock Jr., Pandora's Box, Vertigo, Princess Mononoke, The Royal Tenenbaums, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Monsters Inc., Lilo & Stitch, Almost Famous, Finding Nemo, A Clockwork Orange, The Nightmare before Christmas, William Wegman's Short Films, Snatch, Shawshank Redemption, Seven, The Sixth Sense, Spirited Away ~and many more
(Tom Robbins)-Still Life with Woodpecker, (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)-One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. (David Sedaris)-Me Talk Pretty One Day, Barrel Fever. (David Hwang)-M. Butterfly. (Albert Camus)-The Stranger. (Frank O'Connor)-Guests of the Nation. (William Faulkner)-A Rose for Emily. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)-Gimpel the Fool. (Kurt Vonnegut)- Slaughterhouse-Five. ~and many more that I cannot remember.
Photograph stolen from Studio Manomana Website
Ippei Onoe
Ippei Onoe is my uncle and a producer in Japan who organizes an artist collaboration group called Studio Manomana . Sometime in the future, I will be organizing Studio Manomana USA. So whoever has talent contact me so you can become part of this art group!
WAWOOO-Photograph taken by Remi February
Jenn.
I took two classes with her in 2005 and we have been best friends ever since. We collaborated and created The Green Kewpie . We are also the creators of Wawoo dolls . She is like my clone, except she's more outgoing. Visit her and Vance's website geek woo for hints and tips for the game of life! They are the coolest people ever.
Pixel art created by Remi February
Jason
I've known Jason for a really long time. We created The Not Cool , which is an art oriented forum, but it's still under construction since we're both extremely busy. I helped him design the look of the website, while he did everything else. He is one of my good friends and he loves cookies and singing sadie.
Photograph taken by Kashioboy
Kashioboy
During 2005, I was looking for experimental music and happen to discover this musically inclined individual. I am really happy that I know him because his music makes me happy and not only that he remixed my song Travelling through The Galaxy , and plays it at his shows. I feel super honored and I plan to become as talented as him someday.
Photograph taken by John Paul
John Paul
I met him through my sister. He helped me shoot my documentary called Master Model Builders at Legoland and let me borrow his awesome 8 megapixel camera. He's super nice and also really into art which is awesome!
Artwork by Stray
Kissmyaesthetic
This is stray. I don't really remember how I met him, but I do know he's an incredible artist and extremely funny. His experimental stuff is really interesting and I think it's amazing. Also when I bought his CD he named one of his songs after me, which was really sweet.
The Its!
They are one of my favorite Indie band. I made a psychadellic style portrait of them out of sharpies once in 2004. I really liked it but I decided to send it to them. When I did they sent me stickers and cds, which made me basically one of the happiest people on this planet.
Firebrand_boy
He is one of my favorite electronica/rock/pop artist. I really like his cover of Such Great Heights so I asked permission to use it in my documentary, Master Model Builders. He was generous enough to say yes. Such a nice person. Everyone should listen to his music. It will make you happy when you're sad. Well at least that's what his music does to me.
Jorges
I'm in the process of collaborating with him using his music and my media art skills. Jorges is an awesome artistic individual. Many of his artworks inspire me to become a bettter artist. I will be updating this more when the projects are done.
Pink Dead Whale
Their songs make me day dream about ninja fights on roof tops. I am planning to make a Pink Dead Whale plush toy sometime soon and perhaps make some kind of picture collage of how their songs make me feel. (I hope to do it by end of 2007?). Oh! Something that is also wonderful about this band is that I somehow inspired them to name one of their songs called "Lady Labu." Pink Dead Whale are a sweet Labu Labu band.
Gettingupeverymorning
Gettingupeverymorning makes one song every night. He made a song for my birthday by manipulating the texts of a journal entry of mine. I used the same song in a video called " Hitorigoto ". In a sense, he took his time to collaborate with me. For that I appreciate his time and effort.
Ken Tanaka
A fictional character that exists within the youtube community. I collaborated with him to create "How to speak fluent Japanese without saying a word" . We plan on collaborating more in the future.