GlitchSlapTko

I ran into 大西高広 earlier this week when I was doing some late-night prowling around Kabuki-Cho. He is a contemporary Tokyo street artist - a member of a group that seems to be going thru a kind of second (or third) Renaissance, depending on where you draw the line in the sand of the history of 東京砂漠. Art like his is what keeps the flowers blooming in this socially arid city. (You can peep his works here, which fall under a variety of headings. I'm persoanlly interested in his baseball caps and in his ありがとうヤロー series) He is 20something poet/calligrapher (profile here), and can be found most nights huddled somewhere near some station with gear and goods spread out on a blanket. With his 筆 in hand, making magical sweeps, thrusts, and parries in indedelible ink which result in some of the finest 'street-Fu(de)' I've ever seen. A must-see, striking "calligraffiti" style (coinage my own)!