In her twenty minute TED presentation, author of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert proposes the idea that perhaps creative genius comes from some mystical external source rather than from within.  Instead of a person “being” a genius, perhaps each of us “has” a genius.

The Rinpa Eshidan performance art crew uses stop-motion video photography to document their work.  This makes the process of creating itself a work of art.

Creator of such modern manga classics like Monster, 20th Century Boys, and Pluto, Naoki Urasawa is considered by many to be a modern master of Japanese Comics and the only person worthy to step in footsteps of the legendary Tezuka Osamu.  In this five-part documentary, we get to see how Urasawa brings his creations to [...]

San Francisco based artists David Choong Lee and Brian Barneclo offer their artistic talents to paint eye-catching cardboard signs for two homeless men in this two-part video series, “Spare Paint.”

Known as the father of the “Superflat” movement in Japanese pop art, Takeshi Murakami has worked with fashion label Louis Vuitton.  We could spend hours upon hours dissecting Super Flat and still not “get it” so instead, let’s look at “Superflat First Love,” and animated short Murakami created to cellebrate his collaboration with Louis Vuitton.

This brilliant 8-minute animated short was created entirely in Photoshop. Each frame was drawn using Wacom tablets.  Not only is the animation top notch, but the story is quite good.  Narrated by Nick Cave, The Cat Piano is set in a world of musical cats and told from the perspective of a lonely beat poet.  [...]