FLOW15. opening party

It was a great day.
Many people came by and I explained about my art pieces,
enjoyed sketching of visitors' faces while we sitting on her legs.
Thanks for coming, and if you missed the opening, don't worry.
The FLOW 15. art show continues to November.
I will keep posting blog on Flow 15 website about my experiences of fail things and success things.

FLOW15, I installed my sculptures finally!

Hi all,
It was too last minutes, but, I did it!

Please come by the opening party May 30th 1-3pm, at Randall's Island.
I will be there.
If you can not make it, it is okay...
The show lasts to November.
Please come to Randall's Island to biking, pick nick, sports, BBQ, and seeing my Manga sculpture!

FLOW15's website:

http://www.flowartnyc.org/artists/rica-takashima

Queers, Comics, and Aliens!

Hi, Aliens in New York art show will be holed thi scoming Thursday and Frinday,
at Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
I will be there on Thursday 11am-9pm
Friday 11am-4pm

If you are NYC area, please drop by and have some tea with me?
I will bring four Peekaboo-kuns. 
Try to being Queer Aliens!

http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/

I will be a panel member in two panels:

・LGBT Comic for Young Readers
May 7, 11:45-1:15

・This is What I Look Like: Createing Queer Characters of Color
May 8, 11:00-12:45

Women in Comics 2015

Hi,
I attended to Womens in Comics 2015.
It had a great time to meet many people there.
Thank you very much!

Rica

El Barrio Comes in All Colors, Shapes and Sizes

Hi!

I have been working on a big challenge for something I never done before.
Please take a look here:
http://www.flowartnyc.org/artists/rica-takashima

I will participate in FLOW.15  and show new work,

El Barrio Comes in All Colors, Shapes and Sizes

This is a sculpture in Manga style. It will be installed at Randall's Island in May.

The Randall's Island is located between Harlem river and East river.

The theme of this art work is my respect for people and the history of East Harlem.

You can sit on the legs of this big woman, and gaze the beautiful scenary from 

Randall's Island.

I will constantly post my thoughts, secrets, progress, and story of the sculpture at the FLOW.15 website.

Please check FLOW's my page!

Thanks!

Rica

The ５th day of FB Art challenge.

日本語は下　
It was tough to pick my works for the last day. 
I intended to choose commercial arts, before I started my Peekaboo contemporary art. 
One is a design of a scarf for Cristion Dior Japon. 
I studied this kind of classic design at art college in Japan.. 
Old memories〜.
Next, one of my earlier work, design and creation of the charactors for the ad.
Last, Charactor design for an opening animation for TV sequence show. 
It was simple drawing and I only used 3 colors, white, blue and red.

クリスチャンディオールジャパンのスカーフデザインをちょっとやっていました。
けっこう売れていた。いろんな商品への展開があったし。傘とかハンカチとか。
お遊び革命ってゲーム機の広告。キャラデザインと制作。
駅貼りポスター連貼りとか気持ちよかった。
あとは、TV連続ドラマの「続・星の金貨」オープニングアニメのキャラとか描いた作品。
白組さんとの仕事で嬉しかったよ。
このころの酒井法子さんの関連グッズとかあれこれやってた。
そういえばX-Japanのヒデさんの仕事とかJ-Pop系のも紹介しようと思ったんだが日本に置いて来てしまい紹介できず。
２０−３０代はいろいろあって楽しかったなー。人生飽きないね。

The 4th day of FB Art challenge.

日本語は下
I provided characters, icon, and background illustration for Match Match Planet, 
online game by Sony Entertainment Corporation (So-Net). 
The game was so unpopuler and I think it was not my fault! 
It was not a good concept of the payment game for chatting 
and fortune telling platform. 
People don't want to pay for just chatting online. 
Again, this is not my fault. 
幻のオンラインゲーム。
マッチマッチプラネットのキャラとかまあ全部やったときがあって、
ソニーコミュニケーションズだっけかな。So-net？
チャットで課金て企画が無理あったと当初から思ってた。
だけど今のように広告でネットの収入ていうビジネスモデルが出来てなかったから
皆がいろいろ苦心してた、そんな時代だった。
けっこういろいろな媒体に紹介してもらってたけど（だってソネットだもんね）
でも使用する人も増えなくて消えちゃった。