Bonsai Article - "Revolutionary"

[Eric Schrader]

This is from a design website that I visit on a semi-regular basis. I've never seen anything to do with bonsai there before but they seem to be doing a Japan-themed week worth of articles.

See the full article here:

http://remodelista.com/posts/a-bonsai-revolutionary

I can't say I really agree with the author's assessment of this shop but at least the photos are nice.

Having looked at many Japanese bonsai magazines I can say with some certainty that what he's doing has been around for many years. The aesthetic is nice but neither that nor the techniques are "revolutionary" IMO.

 

[Ang3lfir3]

this is the best part.....

after a stint living abroad in Portland, Oregon, where he studied with bonsai master Kawamoto Toshio

finally!!! Japanese coming to America to study bonsai.... but then maybe that explains a lot

 

[Vance Wood]

This is from a design website that I visit on a semi-regular basis. I've never seen anything to do with bonsai there before but they seem to be doing a Japan-themed week worth of articles.

See the full article here:

http://remodelista.com/posts/a-bonsai-revolutionary

I can't say I really agree with the author's assessment of this shop but at least the photos are nice.

Having looked at many Japanese bonsai magazines I can say with some certainty that what he's doing has been around for many years. The aesthetic is nice but neither that nor the techniques are "revolutionary" IMO.

You're right this is not revolutionary it is retro. It is as if bonsai which has come so far with design and technique; the original idea of growing a tree in a pot is looked at as revolutionary. I see beginners doing things like this all of the time.

 

[daygan]

well, it is revolutionary in one sense of the word (revolution being a "sudden or momentous change in a situation") - it's a small, localized, sudden (maybe not so momentous) change away from designing bonsai to look like full grown trees in nature with character and stories and towards ... um.. er.. putting sticks in pots, adding a twist or two and saying - oooh, look, isn't that neat! Not that that's really such a great direction to be going in... but it seems like he's trying to grab a younger generation that may have grown up apathetic towards bonsai and he's trying to present it in a way that maybe they'll be more interested in.. who knows, maybe he'll be successful with that...

 

[namnhi]

Without reading the content, after looking at that pine, mine weren't bad looking at all. LOL

 

[rockm]

Good Lord, I didn't see "recycled" next to "revolutionary" in the thesaurus...
http://www.popbonsai.com/

This is simply "fad' bonsai. Japan is a hotbed of faddish behavoir, some good, some extremely weird, some dangerous--

 

[rock]

The sign is the coolest part