Today, on Lunar New Year, I turned 60.
Normally I absolutely hate receiving birthday wishes, but turning 60 is something—I’m a little taken back that I somehow survived to reach such an age.
Introducing my collaboration with BLACKPINK🖤🩷! " The collection features a new “Pandakashi” character that I designed for this collaboration.
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For the past five years, Twitter has been a place to complain in Japanese. But from today, I will try my best to speak English and communicate in languages other than Japanese.
And now, here’s the first version of our pictorial roadmap.
We completed it a few days ago and are still updating it little by little, but this is basically how it looks.
I have also been posting the first version of the 16-item text roadmap on the M.F Instagram page.👉
👉I'll be sending out anecdotes and information in small doses for those who want the latest or want to dig down deep but don’t want to spread the word, so if you're interested, please register from the link in the bio.🌸
👉I hope to create opportunities for people to encounter in person through salons and club events on that occasion. I so wish I could go into more details now…!🌸
In June 2020, I, Takashi Murakami, decided to discontinue the production of my film Jellyfish Eyes Part 2 in order to avert bankruptcy of my company, Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. The project that had been in the works since 2012 was halted for the time being.👉
This year, I’m embarking on projects involving factors that hadn’t been part of my life so far, including NFT drops and the release of a tiny game machine. So I pray to the Buddha and myriad gods to keep me going just a little longer.
9. As such, the roadmap I am making may be hard to comprehend, and you may end up with question marks floating above your heads, or worse, some of you may erupt in irritation. You may ask: “Who do you think you are?”
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Introducing the
@takashipom
x BLACKPINK Pandakashi.
The collection launches exclusively on (
@NTWRKLIVE
) on Fri, December 8th 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
Shop the collection in-person December 9 - 10th in Los Angeles & Miami.
#TakashiMurakami
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5. By the way, this series of texts here are numbered, but basically it’s just my essay. So perhaps its content may not be the kind of thing people would want to discuss on Discord, for instance.
We will be accepting Premint registrations for 1,137 surplus Murakami Lucky Cat Coin Banks.
The mint price is 0.0727ETH.
We will accept Premint registrations until August 12, 2022 at 23:59 (GMT) and those who win the draw will be able to mint thereafter.
Introducing the
@takashipom
x BLACKPINK
Pandakashi.
The collection launches exclusively on (
@NTWRKLIVE
) on Fri, December 8th 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
Shop the collection in-person December 9 - 10th in LosAngeles & Miami.
#TakashiMurakami
#BLACKPINK
#NTWRK
Guess who's a BLINK?
@takashipom
is partnering with
@ygofficialblink
for a special collaboration, presented
by
@NTWRKLIVE
Coming soon.12/8/2023.
Click link in bio to stay tuned.
8. We contemporary artists stand far apart in the society from such real-world values and meanings, and I believe our job is to transmit messages from that singular position.
6. In the first place, art is a thought process to discern what is meaningful and to makes sense of what seems meaningless—not a concept that refers to the flow of residue that results after the thought, such as the product itself, or the awarding or trading of things.
4. is a work in which artist Takashi Murakami’s representative artwork, flowers, are expressed as dot art evocative of Japanese TV games created in the 1970s. 👉
7. And so I am constructing this roadmap not as a product description but with a hope that it will serve as a pictorial puzzle for breaking down Murakami’s artistic concept.
ntwrk Unveiling the magicof art and music: Takashi Murakami x BLACKPINK!🌸🎶 Experience the traditional Japanese koto performance group
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. Dive into the collaboration's inspiration and shop the exclusive collection on now!
Performance…
Two years since we began, Flower Go Walk is now complete! It’s a portable game where you grow a Flower. We want Murakami.Flower holders to try them out first. Carry it in your pocket and care for it; enjoy your adventures together! The Flower will show you a variety of faces.
👉As it is already trading NFT art and is operating with the DAO-like worldview, I believe it is M.F’s mission to connect it with those who inhabit the worlds of NFT and DAO. 🌸
11. Vision and values
is being activated upon the system of Superflat, a theory that artist Takashi Murakami put forth in 2000. Superflat refers to the cultural concept generated in Japan in the 77 years since its overwhelming defeat in the Pacific War. 👉
👉I will summarize all these again and plan to post the details of the sale of works, among other things, on M.F’s page in the coming days.
I have also started sending out my mail magazine yesterday to those who have signed up.👉
👉 The work is being developed with the number 108 as the keyword; a combination of 108 backgrounds and flower colors make up a field, and there are 108 fields.👉
My main social media activity is Instagram. Twitter inevitably falls behind. It looks like it hasn't been updated since the beginning of November, and I'd like to catch up.