Welcome to Thailand, the beautiful, natural, and sometimes downright mysterious kingdom in southeast Asia. Travelers who find their way to the nation once known beyond the borders of Asia as Siam are rewarded with stunning hospitality, insane landscapes and loving people. Thailand has always been a fascinating paradise, with its unique characteristics, dangers and curiosities. Photographer Duran Levinson, who has worked for big names like Vice, Red Bull and BMW, flew…

As a protégé of the famous scandal photographer Terry Richardson, Keiichi Nitta, born in 1975 in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, enjoyed what we might call an alternative education in the midst of a microverse dominated by sex, drugs and rock music. So it's no great wonder that he continues to tread the path of his master even after finishing his studies, combining his work with Far Eastern flair and creating from it the skillful composition of perfectly shot photos…

Japanese singer and rapper Daoko began her career at the age of fifteen by uploading her own music clips to the video platform Nico Nico Douga. She started writing and recording songs with her family's shared iMac in the living room, using the computer's GarageBand software and built-in microphone to record her voice. Daoko selected various free tracks, such as Vocaloid songs, from the Internet and tried to reshape them in her own style by following the melody and ly…

Brooklyn-based artist Jocelyn Hobbie's paintings are both dreamlike and hyperreal, sophisticated and playful. Her craft lies in these conflicting truths and the articulation of women who find themselves precariously balanced between contentment and discontent. The energy that emanates from her work comes from an overabundance of vibrant colors and often floral patterns. This sensibility is in direct contrast to the subtle and enigmatic facial expressions of the women…

If you're not careful, it's suddenly there and shortly thereafter it's already over: the last summer. The never-returning days of a time when you could still escape from the real world. Together with your friends you scurried through the city, across the fields, into the cooling lake, past those who were already stuck and wished for nothing more than to be a part of these reality-denying rebels again. Tokyo-based photographer Shiori Ikeno captured her last summer on…

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…

Anyone who takes a look at the paintings of Nigerian artist Akindele John simply can't help but perfidiously follow every brushstroke and subsequently be inspired by the overall effect. Born in Ogun State in 1995, the painter graduated from the prestigious Yaba College of Technology in Lagos and has been actively pursuing art ever since. Akindele's styles, mediums and techniques involve an aesthetic and functional embodiment of his artistic personality. He seeks to e…

Japanese rock music as a whole was in a creative crisis for a long time. For decades, there was little sign of anarchy, change or even revolution; the genre's participants were content to pluck away on their guitars as a copy of a copy of a copy, delivering a run-of-the-mine sound that drew no one outside the Land of the Rising Sun from the woodwork. Hitsujibungaku also want no destruction, no downfall, no hate. But that doesn't matter. The alternative rock band, con…

It's fair to say that Enon Kawatani is a musical genius. Born in Nagasaki in 1988 and not completely averse to social scandals, he is a singer, guitarist and songwriter for the bands Indigo la End, Gesu no Kiwami Otome and the instrumental group Ichikoro, and also works as a writer for other musicians. One of my favorite bands of his, however, is Genie High. Genie High was formed in 2018 after guitarist Ikkyu Nakajima, keyboardist Takashi Niigaki, and bassist Kunihir…

Of course, I can't always have what I want. That would be far too easy. My own happiness sometimes collides with the dreams and wishes of others. And it's not my place to harm them just because I have the questionable opinion that I absolutely have to be the main character in every single story that's told. Every once in a while, I have to admit to myself that I'm only a supporting character in a play and that the spotlight is on someone else. No matter how difficult…