Tokyo Metblogs » chi_jason http://tokyo.metblogs.com Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:04:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Jean Prouve in Kamakura http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2004/12/09/jean-prouve-in-kamakura/ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2004/12/09/jean-prouve-in-kamakura/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2004 19:12:36 +0000 chi_jason http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2004/12/09/jean-prouve-in-kamakura/ DSCF0021.JPG

Speaking of museums of modern art, I was so happy when I found out that the Museum of Modern Art in Kamakura has the touring Jean Prouve exhibit. If you care about design, you’ll love it… if you love Jean Prouve, you’ll shit your pants. It’s an incredible show, drawing on the archives of Germany’s Vitra Design Museum as well as from the archives of Patrick Seguin and other private collectors. You’ll see a Prouve-designed bicycle, prototypes for the Standard Chair, the Dismountable House, models, sketches, video, and oh so very much more. The show runs through January 16th.

Also, while waiting for the train up there, I photographed these ladies…

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]]> http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2004/12/09/jean-prouve-in-kamakura/feed/ Hello Tokyo, Rock on Chicago http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2004/12/04/hello-tokyo-rock-on-chicago/ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2004/12/04/hello-tokyo-rock-on-chicago/#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:54:01 +0000 chi_jason http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2004/12/04/hello-tokyo-rock-on-chicago/ Greeting citizens of Tokyo. Jason Mojica of Metroblogging Chicago here. Today was my first day in Tokyo. I came here to meet up with co-founder of The Modernist, Edgar Barrington, see the Maguro Parasite Museum, eat as many octopus balls as possible and be made deaf by rock music. In just a few hours, I’ve already knocked the first three off my list (though not in that order, I decided that I might not be able to down octopus balls after being repulsed at the parasite museum, though having that rich combination of sea creature, mayonaise, and moist dough in my stomach while taking in the exhibit didn’t really help, either), and now we’re off to take in The Registrators’ last show aka=the real reason I came to Tokyo.

After that, is there really anything left to do?

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