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Sweet 2012 Calendar by Yuu Tihara and Dankeschoen
January 6, 2012It’s hard to believe but we uninstalled LOVE MOVEMENT one year ago this month. (Don’t worry; we’re working on a little sequel of sorts…) Yuu Tihara, one of everyone’s favorite Japanese artists from LOVE MOVEMENT, has released a cute new … Continue reading
LOVE MOVEMENT Helps Japan
March 24, 2011The director of SUPERFROG Gallery, Mr. Seiji Horibuchi, has agreed to waive the gallery’s commission from all online sales of artwork from LOVE MOVEMENT for the next month. We will donate 40% of the price of any custom toy, special … Continue reading
Funding Toys Using Kickstarter
March 9, 2011Making toys takes money. In general, money is something that creative people don’t tend to have. Enter Kickstarter: the “largest funding platform for creative projects in the world”. Kickstarter uses crowdfunding to raise money for specific projects. The concept is simple: … Continue reading
Shin Tanaka Trucker Caps and Touma Custom
February 2, 2011Every time I go back to SuperFrog Gallery, I find something else from LOVE MOVEMENT. There were about 200 individual works in the show, and most of them are now in our online shop. That goes for these hand-painted LOVE … Continue reading
You CAN Buy Love!
January 28, 2011Respect to the Beatles, but you CAN buy love: Close to 200 pieces of art from LOVE MOVEMENT have just gone online! With the exhibition at San Francisco’s Superfrog Gallery now officially over, I chose Storenvy as a platform to … Continue reading
LOVE MOVEMENT Exhibition Catalog
January 10, 2011The LOVE MOVEMENT exhibition has over 200 pieces of art. Most of the work is available for sale through the Superfrog Gallery in the New People building in Japantown, San Francisco. I encourage as many people as possible to go … Continue reading
Better Late Than Never!
December 22, 2010Look at New People all lit up at night! If you’re not from San Francisco, this building juts up in our Japantown like a beacon of much-needed modernity. The Superfrog gallery, where LOVE MOVEMENT is on exhibit, occupies the entire … Continue reading
LOVE MOVEMENT Slideshow Memories
December 20, 2010Shin and Nao and Chota put together this video of their memories from LOVE MOVEMENT and their too-short trip to San Francisco: Fisherman’s Wharf, sourdough bread, clam chowder, giant hamburgers, Alcatraz, Pixar, Max Toy Co, Frank Kozik’s studio and so … Continue reading
LOVE MOVEMENT x Kickstarter Wall
December 20, 2010New People gave Shin Tanaka several walls on which to paint, but perhaps none was more personal than the Kickstarter wall. I used Kickstarter to raise money for Shin & Nao’s travel expenses for the show, and on December 10th, … Continue reading
Sunday LOVE MOVEMENT in Residence
December 20, 2010Some 600 people attended last Saturday night’s opening of LOVE MOVEMENT, and on Sunday, many fans returned for a more intimate afternoon of art and music with the Japanese artists. Here’s Hideki Shiroma putting the finishing touches on a wooden … Continue reading
