New Visual Weekly – Feb ’10

Second visual round up of the year. We start with the picture above, taken from the excellent Genmegane (http://genmegane.com/) photo archive I posted last month.

We continue with a little bit of self promo – this video features a painting session from the Original Cultures artists at the end of our first event last year. It's never been seen before. The audio is taken from the live show the night before. Look out for our London show in early March, details on our Facebook page (http;//www.facebook.com/originalcultures)

Next up is an awesome looking project I was tipped about by the homies from SRK. It's being produced by their collaborator Illobia. It's called KanZeOn: The Magical Potential of Sound. Can't wait to see the final product.

One for the men out there. Valentines promo for Agent Provocateur.

Back on the music tip, two EPKs/promo videos for forthcoming releases that I recommend you watch and buy. First up is the dandy of beats, Daedelus with a promo for his forthcoming Brainfeeder EP. 'Righteous Fists of Harmony' (http://www.brainfeeder.com). It's not your usual Daedelus EP either, really nice mellow vibe.

Then there is Belgian producer Dynoooo who hit me up with a copy of his Dragon Gum EP and this EPK. Lovely stuff, both musically and visually. Out now, go cop!

A building front made into a Q-code? Only in Japan right? Out to my Tokyo massive. Watch the world catch on in about two years as usual.

Back on the image tip, my friend sent me a link to this blog that rounds up some insane old and very creepy ads for things like women's cleanliness, bottled heroin and the classic healthy cigarettes! View them all here (http://www.weirdomatic.com/creepy-ads.html).

This next one I found via Matt Alt's twitter – an amazing rendition of Pokemon characters in the style of old Yokai (monsters) of Japanese tradition. A must for the nerds but really, quite beautiful regardless of what you think of Pokemon. View them all here (http://blog.livedoor.jp/agraphlog-asamegraph/temp/pokehyaku.html)

Last one is from this great documentary about Albert Khan which my friend told me about recently. This philantropist sent people around the world to photograph life in the first decades of the 20th century with the hope of stopping wars and suffering by showing people that we were all the same. He used the first technology that made colour photography possible. There are two documentaries the BBC did last year as well as a book and an exhibition in Paris under the name 'Les Archives de la Planete/The Wonderful World of Albert Khan'. Some stills below, unbelievable stuff. View all images on the museum's website here (http://www.albert-kahn.fr/index.php/les-archives-de-la-planete)