Giant Robot Store and GR2 News

I was wandering around Shibuya the other night and ran across a construction divider plastered with stickers of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. The stickers gradually sprung up shortly after the 1 year anniversary of the 3.11 nuclear disaster. These and many others are the work of a designer/underground artist cryptically named “281 AntiNuke” targeting Tepco Photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert documented some of 281′s handy work throughout the city along with a photograph of what appears to be 281 himself standing beside one of his stickers. I can’t find any other information on this artistic crusader otherwise. So far, I haven’t seen these two photos uploaded online. One is a an Obama Hope poster parody with the President’s visage replaced by a collage of nuclear trefoils. The other is another of Noda as a ventriloquist dummy with the tagline “Follow the Follower.”
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Yoshitomo Nara supposedly released this image for people to print out in protest of the reactor restart. Download yours here. Nara posted on his Twitter account that basically says the image appeared in his Slash with a Knife book.  OK to scan it and print it, just don’t sell it. We’re no sure if this particular file was done by him, but it’s obviously a higher res scan probably from his book.
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