My wife is fluent in Japanese, there are no prices listed. Probably in the "if you have to ask you can't afford it" range. Very cool stuff.

snuff3r: Now, that man is obsessed with goldfish.

gopher321: Eh. Just toss a real goldfish into some shellac. Cheaper.

My thoughts exactly.

Wouldn't the fish eventually rot? That would likely leave you with a chunk of resin with a cool fish shaped cavity in there filled with brown fluid.

Tebow Could have done it better.

That's pretty freakin cool.

I used to watch ninja warrior - definitely no prices listed.

I had sushi once... definitely no prices listed.

I used to watch MXC all the time - definitely more exciting than that video.

Step 1: Paint 3D fish
Step 2: Take them to a third world country with little to no food.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit (or Troll face. either way)

If he ever did Han Solo in carbonite ......

So can anyone explain exactly what it is he's doing?

meyerkev: So can anyone explain exactly what it is he's doing?

"Japanese artist paints the most amazing 3D goldfish you'll honestly probably ever see, by building them layer by layer out of paint in liquid resin"

2xhelix: He has some great pieces on his website.
I'd love to own this one, but can't read Japanese, so no idea of the price.
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That one is "Night Kaguya" which is a kind of mythology pun as it's in a bamboo shoot.

Sadly there are no prices, but you can fill out his "contact/inquiry" form I guess if you're serious about purchasing a work.

snuff3r: Now, that man is obsessed with goldfish.

gopher321: Eh. Just toss a real goldfish into some shellac. Cheaper.

My thoughts exactly.

I'm inclined to assume there's some deep contentment to the act of creating perfectly, mote by mote as he goes...but I kind of want to see you say that to him just to see the translator whisper in his ear and see if his eyes suddenly widen and he slaps himself on the forehead.

I bet my penis is bigger than his.

YATTAAAA!!!

I'd love to own a piece of his work, but I'm sure I can't afford it. If I can afford it, he isn't charging enough.

DamnYankees: xiaodown: 2xhelix: He has some great pieces on his website.
I'd love to own this one, but can't read Japanese, so no idea of the price.
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There aren't any prices on the page (source: I have an american friend who has lived in japan for over a year; he can't read a lot of kanji, but he is relatively certain that there are no numbers and no mentions of the yen sign, or of the word "yen", on that page).

Correct. I can read Chinese, and there are definitely no numbers or the symbol for Yen anywhere there.

Looking on the Announcements page there's a blurb about the availability of the works being detailed if you email the shop directly, but that's as close as Chrome found with a translation. I'd wager with the amount of work that looks like it goes into each one, they're likely a farking pretty Yen per piece...

Did some searching and I was able to come up with some estimated prices. Sites showing art auction results unfortunately only show info to subscribers, although I did find one listing three paintings (acrylic on cloth, ranging in size from 20x45 to 71x32) that sold in 2008, with estimated auction values from $1000-3000. I couldn't find the hammer price for any pieces as public knowledge.

However, many of these pieces are currently on display at the ICN gallery in London (Wednesday is the last day), and all of them are for sale.
From this article, the least expensive resin piece is £540 ($834), while the big piece with the ladle is £33,000 ($51,000).
There are also ink drawings for closer to $75-100
Proceeds are going to the Japanese Red Cross Earthquake Relief Fund.

/any Japanese speakers have a guess which Kanji are in his name for it be Riusuke instead of Ryusuke (which I would think is more common)? Or is that possibly a regional dialect thing that is resulting in different hiragana for the first character?

The guy is a sumi-e master. Only the sort of painting he's doing is so far beyond anything I've ever seen... or hell... even imagine doing... it's not even funny. (yeah I dabble in sumi-e)

The gold fish he did at the end is indicative of the skills only a true master of the art possesses, where you can take ridiculously big brushes and create a masterpiece that you can't even see (since you're inside the painting while you're doing it) and you do it flawlessly without a single mistake.

That's the difference between sumi-e and western painting. In sumi-e you get one shot at it, and can't undo a stroke by scraping the paint off like you can with western oils. It's either perfect with each stroke being free of mistakes... or it's garbage and you toss it. That's it... one shot. Perfection or junk.

The stuff he is doing with the 3 dimensional fish painting is HARD to do. I've seen others do similar stuff, but nothing like what he's doing. He's on a whole different level.

If you think what he's doing is cool, you're right, it is. For me, it took my breath away.

Beautiful.
Thanks Subby.

Good thing I view all my 3-D goldfish dishonestly then.

ahh ahhh ah ah ahhh ah ah ahhhh ahhhhh

The music ruined it for me

A guy painting goldfish? Really? Geez, how good could it -

Oh.

OHHHHHHHH...

/beautiful work
//amazing talent

More gold fish art.

The song reminded me of melody from Fiddler on the Roof. Maybe Sunrise,Sunset?

And the fish were the biz too.

can anyone confirm those aren't real fish???

Outstanding.


I am always in awe of "creatives"

Bell-fan: The guy is a sumi-e master. Only the sort of painting he's doing is so far beyond anything I've ever seen... or hell... even imagine doing... it's not even funny. (yeah I dabble in sumi-e)

The gold fish he did at the end is indicative of the skills only a true master of the art possesses, where you can take ridiculously big brushes and create a masterpiece that you can't even see (since you're inside the painting while you're doing it) and you do it flawlessly without a single mistake.

That's the difference between sumi-e and western painting. In sumi-e you get one shot at it, and can't undo a stroke by scraping the paint off like you can with western oils. It's either perfect with each stroke being free of mistakes... or it's garbage and you toss it. That's it... one shot. Perfection or junk.

The stuff he is doing with the 3 dimensional fish painting is HARD to do. I've seen others do similar stuff, but nothing like what he's doing. He's on a whole different level.

If you think what he's doing is cool, you're right, it is. For me, it took my breath away.

Post some of your work?

/genuinely curious.

ritalinchild 54: Outstanding.

The gold fish he did at the end is indicative of the skills only a true master of the art possesses, where you can take ridiculously big brushes and create a masterpiece that you can't even see (since you're inside the painting while you're doing it) and you do it flawlessly without a single mistake....

I was really unimpressed at the ending part. The detail on that fish was not that pretty, but I don't think anything done that quickly would have looked good either.