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...Prophet” of the title is also intended literally—El Djebena is haunted by his first hit, a fellow Arab, who gives him visions of the future, teaches him about Islam, and smokes with him through his neck wound. It’s as if Murakami turned the second half of Camus’ “The Stranger” inside...
ASTRONAUTS to appear in Louis Vuitton ads. NASA demands Takashi Murakami space suits...
...text. It's the photo spreads - especially of the clothes, and especially of famous people wearing the clothes - that will make most readers stop and gawk. In that respect, *A Bathing Ape pays off. Aside from J-Pop starlets and Japanese celebrities like club DJ Cornelius and artist Takashi Murakami, the book's cameos read like an urban teenager's iTunes playlist: N.E.R.D.'s Pharrell Williams, DJ Shadow, M.I.A., T.I., Young Jeezy, Joel and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte, the late Biggie Smalls and Mark Ronson all show up sporting A BATHING APE designs; Kanye West, never...
...Japanese artist Takashi Murakami working with hip-hop megastar Kanye West: Murakami explained how the collaboration evolved in simple terms: "'Kanye was a big fan of my big breast sculpture. He learned my work and asked me to make designs.' The 'big breast sculpture' is Hiropon, a painted fiberglass work completed in 1997 of a blue-haired girl with gargantuan breasts from which milk gushes in such abundance that the flow encircles her body like a skipping rope...
...book jacket designer for respected U.S. publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Chip Kidd has worked with authors from Cormac McCarthy to Michael Crichton to Haruki Murakami. He is also a twice-published novelist, graphic designer, and comics fanatic - hence Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan. Kidd talked to TIME about his superhero obsession, why books will never die, and the almighty power of Oprah Winfrey...