My name is Alexandros Mastroyiannis. I grew up in Athens in Greece. But when I got a little older, we moved to Swansea in Wales. Swansea is truly a terrible place, I hated it there. But the city provided me with enough funny anecdotes to last a lifetime. Then just recently my path took me to Exeter in England, which is immediately much prettier to look at than Swansea, even if it is a rather small city. I love Athens, it's a wonderful metropolis. I'm nineteen years o…

The self-titled debut album of the Japanese band Millennium Parade is on repeat since release on my phone. After all, there are only absolute bangers on there. Bon Dance? Great! Fly With Me? Stunning! Familia? Fabulous! Just the genre is difficult to explain, because Millennium Parade simply throw everything available, such as pop, hip hop, electro, dance, rock, funk, jazz and rap, into a pot, stir vigorously and then slap the motley mash against the wall. „The…

No matter how far away we may find ourselves, in the crowded streets of New York, on the hot coasts of Australia or under the high ceilings of Berlin's old apartments, every now and then we return home. To our city. To a world in which time seems to stand still. And we feel superior. Because no one there had the courage to dare even come close to what we have achieved. The streets of the small community are still the same ones we rode down on bikes as kids. Ran down…

I'm a big fan of artists who use femininity in all its beauty and power as the basis of their work. After all, femininity is full of colorful facets, so that it's never lame to devote yourself to it in various ways, both as someone who creates art and someone who wants to look at it and also understand it in its entirety. Bijou Karman from Los Angeles creates beautiful illustrations of young, strong, and pretty girls. Even famous personalities and brands like Rihanna…

Founded in 2005 by Yasushi Akimoto, the Japanese band AKB48 is one of the most successful artists of the present day. With songs like Beginner, River, and Heavy Rotation, the members led by Atsuko Maeda sang, danced, and jumped their way into the hearts of East Asian residents overnight and triggered puberty in many a teenager with a revealing music video or two. Andrew Joyce and Kenneth Maxwell of the Wall Street Journal once described AKB48's works as „sugary…

Welcome to Super Potato, also known as the pure video game paradise of the Far East. The store, which stretches over several floors in Akihabara, is crammed with everything that makes retro gamers' hearts beat faster: Super Nintendo role-playing games, Dreamcast consoles, The Legend of Zelda walkthrough books, Final Fantasy soundtracks, most of it between five and twenty dollars - except, of course, the very special gems, such as limited-edition figures or rare versi…

While my classmates wanted to become astronauts, firefighters, or veterinarians, I had chosen a completely different dream job for myself: illustrator! For days, I would lock myself in my room and doodle on my own versions of Sailor Moon, Wedding Peach and The Vision of Escaflowne. I really wanted to publish my own manga and become famous all over the world. Unfortunately, exams, girls and real life got in the way and my dream of becoming a mangaka was shattered. Kel…

Awich, who is actually called Akiko and whose alias is short for Asia Wish Child, a name she created to reflect her roots. As a child, she would stay up all night on her home island of Okinawa writing poetry about various things such as life, love, the universe and more. When she was 13, she heard Tupac's All Eyes on Me for the first time and has been obsessed with hip hop ever since. In 2006, she released her debut EP Inner Research. That same year, she moved to Atl…

After I came across the magnificent photographs of Chih Hsien Chen from Taiwan some time ago, I now became aware of Bravo Ko, who not only lives in the same country and in the same city, but also acts in the same circle of friends. How great that is, such creative friends who do not presume anything on their skills, but simply immortalize their generation with powerful images. Whenever I publish such photo series on my blog, and this has been going on for years, then…

When he was younger, artist Ben Evans, who goes by Ben is Right on the Internet, spent a lot of time in the smoked-up rooms of his stoner buddies and girlfriends. So it's no wonder that all this weed glorification made quite an impression on him, and he made weed the main component of his illustrations. Ben immortalizes in colorful pictures how the people around him smoke themselves to death, throw themselves on cornflakes, burgers, and coke after a skillful smoking…