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Cut Paper Ninja

the trippy tales of a panged heart

About Me


"Toys" at Gallery1988 LA. Opening Reception: April 1, 2008. With Cut Paper Art of some of the coolest toys of the 80's (by me!).

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The Cut Paper Ninja slips silently through the shadowy back-alleys of Tokyo. He bursts from the darkness, furiously slashing with his blades, carving jagged edges and trippy images. His sharpened senses are atuned to the new colors and textures that will fall victim to his skills and form the building blocks of his images. His movement is the quietest wind. His art the loudest fury.

Then he is gone, faded into shadow.

My Interests

my website: The Ninja's Cut-Caper Art
my blog: Papercuts
my photos: Art & Japan
All that is quirky, clever, weird and joyful. Paper. Art. Paper art. The pulsating crush of flesh that is Tokyo. Pop-surrealism. Lowbrow, highbrow, middle brow, protruding brow, and no brow. Good Scifi. Design Color and texture.

I'd like to meet:

Artists and creatives. Collectors and galleries. Those with the courage to stop and appreciate something beautiful or weird or funky. Things with tentacles. Probably you.

Music:

Mellowing in my venerable years. Anything I can draw to. Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, Beck, Bjork, Creedence, Guster, Mahler, R.E.M., Radiohead, Weezer

Movies:

Pulp Fiction. Star Wars. Good Night, and Good Luck. The Princess Bride. Fight Club. Anything from Pixar or Hayao Miyazaki. The Big Sleep.

Television:

The Venture Bros._Lost_Veronica Mars_Battlestar Galactica (new)_anything in english

Books:

The Hitchhikers Trilogy, Douglas Adams, Of Mice and Men, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Terry Pratchett, Tolkien, Wuthering Heights, Dr. Seus, Stinky Cheese Man, Mercer Mayer

Heroes:


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My Blog

March 29: The 6th Canzone and Talk Show with Stefano Lodola (and Me!)

On March 29th, 2008, I will be exhibiting my recent artwork at an exposition at the Tokyo International Exchange Center. Stefano Lodola, Italian Baritone and showman, very kindly asked me to take par...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:34:00 PST

"Toys" at Gallery 1988LA, April 1st, 2008

Before there were video games, there were..."Actually, as a farmboy growing up in New Jersey, before we had toys, my brothers and I had sticks with which to have swordfights and crabapples with which ...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:16:00 PST

"A Constellation Album" Book Released (with my art!)

After nearly a year of anticipation (on my part, anyway), A Constellation Album: Stars and Mythology of the Night Sky.. by renowned astrophotographer P.K. Chen and chock-full of cut-paper illustration...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:58:00 PST

Under the Influence Show at Gallery 1988 LA

The good folks at Gallery 1988 (LA, this time!) saw fit to include one of my pieces among the mind-numbing talent that will be on display at the "Under the Influence: a Tribute to Stan Lee" show start...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:43:00 PST

Pushing paper at Gallery 1988 in San Francisco! Opening Oct. 30th

On October 30th, The "Paper Pushers" show will open at Gallery 1988 in San Francisco. Along with a ton of work by a cornucopia of amazingly talented artist-types, Ten (that's 10!) of my pieces will g...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:42:00 PST

The Long, Slow Slide into Tokyo Time

William Gibson wrote (my groggy head can't remember which book...they're all great tho) a theory on jetlag which I fully subscribe to. It goes something like this: The human soul can only travel so ...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:16:00 PST

About New Friend Requests

Hey All,I'll be travelling during the last week or so of September.  During that time, I won't really be able to get online or add any new friends.  So, if you've made a friend's request and...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:31:00 PST

Tagged I am

I got tagged. Which makes me it. 10 interesting/unique/ quirky things about the ninja of paper. The catch with this sort of list is that I think everything about me and my life is pretty mundane. ...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:21:00 PST

Blog on Blog (Papercuts Announcement)

The Cut-Paper Ninja has added a blog to his arsenal.Papercuts is the name.Not content to slip silently through shadows and across rooftops, the Ninja and his paper art are front and center (in a steal...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:31:00 PST

6 New Button-Badges. Now with 100% more Monkey!

Here they are, 6 new button-badges based on my illustrations of the Japanese Otogibanashi (fable) Momotaro. Momotaro and the peach he popped out of, his friends Inu, Saru and Kiji, and the Oni King.C...
Posted by Cut Paper Ninja on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:37:00 PST