Art & Photography

It’s been a long time since I’ve played a game on a Nintendo console for any length of time, but I still have fond memories of playing my SNES to death as a teenager. Many of my favorite characters come from Nintendo (and in the case of Mega Man, Capcom), and artist Jed Henry has beautifully re-created each of them in the Japanese Ukiyo-e style of yesteryear.

If the style of these Nintendo characters looks at all familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen it before. Japanese woodblock printing and

I’m not usually the one who writes about watches, because frankly… I think they’re mostly useless these days. I have my cell phone, thank you very much. Having said that, I absolutely love seeing old advertising, especially if it’s created by the Japanese.

I’m sure we can all agree that Japan is a place full of wacky antics, and even crazier gadgets, and this set of

Tape, be it scotch tape, packing tape, or duct tape, is a major part of our day to day life here on planet earth. We use it when we paint our walls, we use it to pack boxes, and we even use it to fix leaking pipes. What surprises me is that despite the many uses we’ve found for the stuff, artwork isn’t really one of them.

Sure, we use it to mask out sections of a painting every now and again, but surely we can do better than that, right? Of course we can, or at least one of us anyway. You see, there’s a gentleman by the name Max Zorn (is that your real name?) whom – using only brown packing tape, a scalpel, and Plexiglas – creates