Takashi Murakami with "Polyrhythm" (1992) Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas at Galerie Mars in Shibuya-Ku
At the beginning of his career, Murakami appeared to be content with the lot of most successful contemporary artists: to create work that is admired by critics and desired by wealthy collectors but leaves the general public baffled or hostile. He was constructing conceptual pieces similar to the art being made in the West. Among those early works, which began attracting attention in the early 90's, was "Polyrhythm", a seven-foot-high slab of yellow resin, minimalist in form, on which many toy United States infantry soldiers climb. Read Full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/the-murakami-method.html
"Murakami Yawns At Mars" 1992 (Takashi Murakami as photographed by: Ithaka Darin Pappas). World-renowned contemporary artist #TakashiMurakami @takashipom photographed at Mars Gallery in Shibuya-Ku, Japan, Tokyo by Greek-Californian artist/photographer IthakaDarinPappas @_Ithaka_ @photographer_ithaka.d.pappas
Takashi Murakami is one of the most praised Asian artists on the contemporary art scene and in 2008, he was the only visual artist to be named one of the #100mostinfluential people by the Time magazine.
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Κάποιες φορές πρέπει να βρίσκεσαι την κατάλληλη στιγμή στην κατάλληλη θέση και κάπως έτσι, μαζί με μπόλικη τύχη, να γραφτεί ένα μικρό ή μεγάλο κεφάλαιο στην ιστορία. Τι θα γινόταν το 1988, κάπου στο Χόλιγουντ, αν ο νεαρός surfer – φωτογράφος Ithaka Darin Pappas δεν ήταν πρόθυμος, να βοηθήσει έναν άγνωστο με τα ψώνια του; Αυτός ο άγνωστος δούλευε τότε στη δισκογραφική μίας νέας ανερχόμενης μπάντας με το όνομα N.W.A. Ίσως να μην είχαν τραβηχτεί ποτέ οι θρυλικές πρώτες φωτογραφίες των N.W.A., ένα hip hop συγκρότημα με μέλη τον αδικοχαμένο Eazy-E, τον Ice Cube και Dr. Dre, τους Arabian Prince, MC Ren και DJ Yella. Όλη η ιστορία του hip hop της Δυτικής Ακτής των ΗΠΑ, η γέννηση της gangsta rap, το άλμπουμ «Straight Outta Compton» και των παραγωγών του Dre, τα δεκάδες άλλα ονόματα που ξεπετάχτηκαν μετά από αυτούς, οι καυστικοί στίχοι που «προφήτευσαν» τις εξεγέρσεις στο Λος Άντζελες το 1992, όλα γύρναγαν γύρω από τους N.W.A.
"Vote For Me" with Yadira Pascault Orozco and Lisa Cole
at Brisk Theater Festival (Los Angeles). The ten-minute politically oriented two-women play was written by Australian, Kel Vance and directed by John Fingal O'Donnell.
"TARO REEF" - a surrealist photography series by artist: Ithaka
(plant waves photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas in Brazil)
The featured images were all photographed at Taro Reef during a single winter season. Taro Reef is located at AkahtiLândia, Ithaka's mini-ranch and art studio situated in the Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Rainforest) in the State of São Paulo (Brazil).
Although multiple attempts were made to continue the series, the taro patch at AkahtiLândia (Taro Reef) never again received ideal lighting conditions, nor did the curves of the leaves again emulate ocean waves as they had that one winter. The "Taro Reef" project is uniquely comprised only of the images on this presentation.
"The Miracle Mile Shot" is an experimental, non-dialogue short-subject documentary film by Greek-American artist-photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas. This is the third in his series of hip-hop Photomentaries almost entirely relying on his own archival imagery of West Coast rap artists.
Ithaka cites legendary documentary film-maker, Ken Burns as a motivating influence to begin this type of film work.
"I begin seeing these incredible documentaries randomly at different times and places around the world, on planes, at friends houses etc. And it took me a minute to realize that all of this compelling story-telling; Jazz, The Civil War, andThe National Parks: America's Best Ideawere coming from the same source, Ken Burns. His projects can tell an entire story with only still photographs if necessary, it's amazing.
I realized that I was the creator of much of the kind of raw still photographic material that Mr. Burns uses for his projects, and it has inspired me to begin to edit and present these images in a film format to tell a story. The Miracle Mile Shot is my third short-subject film festival project. I have already completed earlier this year Eazy E & Venice Locals (A Historic Day in the Brotherhood of Hip Hop and Skateboarding
I call these projects Photomentaries, meaning at this point I am only using still photographs in movement, with sound and text to vocal communicate ideas. I am not sure I will ever incorporate narration, I am enjoying the closed-mouth communication direction of it all and think I'd like to take it to the next level and even try a much longer project, of up to an hour.
"The Miracle Mile Shot" has also appeared at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and has already been submitted to several other short film festivals around the world. Images from The film:
