Japan Loops

If it’s entertainment you’re out for, Huanqiu Shibao delivers with a big photogallery of randomness from the streets and stores of Japan (click image for link):

And if you can handle a bit of edginess in your pop, Sputniko makes an extraordinary appearance in a new music video which I gather is a follow up to her previous “Child-Producing Machine.” The corpus of this person’s work — in particular the new stuff in a recent show at the Royal College of Art, described here on the artist’s blog —  seems to have a certain intellectual integrity to it:

Update: Interesting critique on Spuniko’s Twitter page regarding reception of this work.

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