it's nice that is so nice like that!

it's nice that wrote about me today thanks to lovely Alex!

it's nice that are at Portobello Dock as part of ‘The Dock’ exhibition this week. You can buy it's nice that 2nd publication there like I did yesterday! (Possibly the best £10 spent this year too!) You should definitely pay a visit there... the whole thing is amazing. It's massive and has so much space with lots of fantastic exhibits.

Yes yes I went to London yesterday and saw lots of inspiring stuff including the Dock exhibition. The day made me want to create more and more! I'm working frantically on a new pencil drawing piece on women of the woodland!!

Girrrrrrrrrls...

I came across this ffffound user. She seems to be an illustrator originally from South Korea currently based in NY. I'm an illustrator originally from Japan currently based in the UK. Hmmmmmmm just switch and stitch here and there and me and her could be swapped around the globe! I hope she won't find out, or if she does, won't mind my little blurb hehe.

The photos she finds are amazing.... I can't stop looking at photo after photo of beautiful girls... Very inspiring indeed.

OUR EXHIBITION - The Menagerie Exhibition

I'm taking part in The Menagerie Exhibition at Ropetackle in Shoreham opening this Wednesday!

It's a group exhibition of

* Me (Illustrator / Pencil Drawings)

*Emily Maude (Illustrator / Screen Prints and Pen Drawings)

*Ellie Wood (Illustrator / Collage)

*Katie Munro (Illustrator / Pencil Drawings)

*Sarah Latham (Photographer)

The opening night is on the 9th of September (yes this Wednesday!!) from 7pm.

The exhibition is open until the beginning of October (yes for AN ENTIRE MONTH!!).

Ropetackle Centre / Little High Street, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, BN43 5EG Tel: 01273 464440

It's 10 mins walk from the station towards the seafront. I have never been to Shoreham before but now I have and it's actually a really nice place especially on a nice sunny day. You can see multi-coloured boat houses floating on the ocean with people really living in them! Amazing....I do worry if it's ok when it's storming though. But I guess there are people living there so it should be no problem? Hmmmmmm......

Ok I'm off to the cinema the second time today (I went to see a special screening of Pierre le fou this morning) to see Broken Embraces! Hoooooooo!!!

Haruki Murakami's speech

I've just found Haruki Murakami's speech at Jerusalem Prize. Hmmmmm interesting.....

Music, books and films.

Would I ever stop buying things?

.......Maybe not. Maybe never...........

*Beneath The Surface Vol4 - A Bella Union Sampler

Especially Black Ice by Ohbijou (such a beautiful website!) and Keep you eyes on the road by Paul Marshall are so so beautiful that I find myself listening to them again and again....

"staring at your innocent skin wondering how I fucked this up but I surely did"

.... Mr Paul Marshall, could you be my best friend please??

*South of the Border, West of the Sun , Haruki Murakami

Another Murakami book.... addition to my Murakami collection...

*The Flaming Green Tree Trilogy, Kenzaburo Oe

I've just started reading this and already liking it. This is the second book I read by this author (the first was The Changelling which was also good). I normally don't like award-winning types of writings but am finding his work really personal and fascinating... makes me want to visit Shikoku next time I go back to Japan....hmmmm maybe not. Maybe it's better to leave it in my imagination...hmmmm...

*Confession, Ko Machida

This is the most entertaining book out of all my recent purchases but my least favourite too. Maybe because I like to live in metaphors and this is a bit too straight-forward directly into your face... maybe I like "reading between lines" too much. Maybe a few too many maybes when I talk about my love of things haha. But when I like something, I can't even explain why I like it sometimes... just like everyone else I hope?

*Innocence directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Beautiful film. Girls of that age are so sharp and fragile...

I think the director is the wife of Gasper Noe. I'm sorry if I'm wrong. His earlier films such as canon and carne are also amazing... Irreversible is a bit too strong for me. I went to see it by myself and cried in a cinema in the middle of the film. How naive.

*A box set of 3 films by Leos Carax, which doesn't include my favourite Les amants du Pont-Nuef!! eeeeee!!! But still, I like his other films too.

Sigh..... I will go bankrupt soon.....I really shouldn't have gone to Fopp. London trapppppppppp......

Amelia's magazine

God. I haven't updated my blog for a month! This is badddddd........ I've been busy with Graduation etc etc for a month. Yes it's an excuse, isn't it? Well well well...

I got interviewed by Amelia's magazine the other day (thanks to lovely Alice) and it's online now!

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/amelias_blog/2009/08/yuko_michishita_a_new_traditio.php

See? I wasn't just doing nothing...!!!

Love from nice and sunny Brighton. Big boo to all those leaving Brighton too!!

Post Degree Show Personal Reward

First of all, big thanks to those who came to our London show!

Everything went well in the end and we had a big fun time.

Again, I was too busy having fun and looking after the bar (aka apologising to all the people there that we only have water or orange juice with a sad look on my face... sorry everyone who came. We really didn't think the drinks would go that quickly..), I forgot to take photos...

Some lovely people said nice things about my work and also we got blogged about quite a bit which makes me happy.

Anyway, I thought it should be time to give myself a reward.

Books books books!!!

Classic reward to myself. My family (especially my dear mummy) was very strict about everything from not leaving food on the plate served to you to never wear clothes with cute characters embroidered but was so generous about books purchases that I never considered the prospect of not buying books I wanted until I was about 20, which is probably a bit too late.

Well it's a reward to myself! so I went on amazon.co.jp and spent about proper 3 hours browsing on and on and on...

Eventually I bought 7 Japanese books I read when I was little and am getting all of them sent here to Brighton! Hooray to the world of international shipping!

This is the first one arrived about a week ago. One of my favourite books of my childhood, "Never Ending Story".

I must have read it when I was about 10 because I remember the thickness of the book was quite challenging when I first read it. But I conquered it within a week and really REALLY loved it. This is exactly the same version (the cover and illustration inside) as the one I read as well which makes things sooooo special. I remember being careful not to damage the beautiful red cover!

I finished reading it last week and it was as good as I remembered, which is very, very good. I'm kind of thankful that I had to go to London every day for a week for the Degree Show preparation so that I could read it every day on the train even though I was very busy.

By the way I've got a mixed feeling about the film Never Ending Story... As a film, it's not bad. But the thing is that I read the book first and the book was soooo good that I was expecting so much from the film. But! the film didn't live up to my expectations... The film is like a badly Photoshopped version of the book even though I have to admit that I had a massive crush on Atreyu. (Also I thought Moon Child was so pretty.)

I've just received another one of the books today. I've just started reading it and again, it's as good as I remembered so far. It's quite a dark story about British origined "Little People" (they're like fairies about the size of a thumb.) living in War-time Japan and a Japanese family who's looking after them. The father of the family gets imprisoned for being anti-war and the older brother of the family becoming militaristic.. wow I'm realising how dark and deep this story is. It's meant to be a children's book though!

I'll probably write about it sometime soon!