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Stopping you in your tracks

astrorainfall — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:24:30 +0000

A mural painting of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki made commuters take a second look, while walking through Shibuya station, a busy train hub in central Tokyo. Some even took out their mobile phones to take a snap.

Photo: pierdolapaciencia

Painted by Japanese artist Taro Okamoto, his surreal art piece Asu no Shinwa (”Myth of Tomorrow”) is now placed near the Keio Inokashira line at the station.

TIME magazine wrote an interesting piece on this mural and I couldn’t re-tell it in a better way.

I would like to add that there’s so much amazing art in Tokyo — it’s intense and inspiring. Just another spanner in works when you think the Japanese way is rigid and monotonous.

Cut & Paste Tokyo

tok_jimmy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:46:44 +0000

8 designers, 5 judges, 3 rounds of 15 minutes: Cut & Paste comes to Tokyo on Saturday night at Womb in Shibuya.
Watch digital design, live as the 8 contestants’ creations develop over each round of 15 minutes, beamed across the venue.
Till reviewed Cut & Paste Berlin.

More info on the Tokyo event here

Tokyo Art Beat 3rd Year Anniversary Party

tok_masanori — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:54:55 +0000

Tokyo Art Beat is Tokyo’s bilingual art & design events guide. They also have listings of creative jobs. It is pretty useful website if you are interested in contemporary art happenings in Tokyo. I always use this to find where I can stop by along the way.

The party was good. It was packed and certainly had a good sense of community around. Designers, artists, musicians, organizers, curators were there to celebrate the anniversary. It also gave me a chance to catch up with some of my friends I bumped into at the party.

A friend, Theo, missed the last train to Kawasaki-city. So we decided to stay longer at the party and went to eat Ramen at one of my favorite Ramen shops in Roppongi around 1 am.

Zabon Ramen is where we went to finish the day. It is located in the middle of Roppongi but has a deserted feeling around the corner where the shop is located. I also think this Ramen shop is a sort of buddy or old friend type of place for Roppongi people. It is a place to eat Ramen after party.

Andy Mueller at Adam et Rope in Shibuya

Sean Bonner — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:02:28 +0000

I just found out that my friend Andy Mueller from LA has a solo photography show opening at a gallery in Shibuya tomorrow night. The show is called “Point + Shoot” and consists of about 100 photos
> taken between 1994-2007. More info on the gallery’s own website.

【POINT&SHOOT】と題して、彼が20年間撮り続けてきた作品を
6つのカテゴリーでご紹介致します。これまで公開されたこと
のないプライベートな作品も多く、新たなアンディ・ミューラー
の世界観をお楽しみ頂ける内容になっております。

今回の写真展では、「Pictur Taker」と題した写真集を限定で20冊販売致します。
（直筆サインとシリアルナンバー入り！）
『The Quiet Life』の商品も一部展開致しますので、どうぞお楽しみに！

また7月20日（金）のオープンニングレセプションには本人も来日し、
18時よりささやかなパーティも行います！

ぜひこの機会に皆様お誘い合わせの上、お立ち寄り下さい。
スタッフ一同、心よりお待ちしております。

Shinjuku Eye

ber_julia — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:15:43 +0000

Some photos [click!] and a video [click!] of the famous 新宿の目 (Shinjuku Eye) by the artist Miyashita Yoshiko. It can be found at the west exit of Shinjuku station since 1969.
Although it is so “eye-catching” most people just rush by without paying attention to the huge piece of glass art – no matter how hypnotizing the pupil might spin…

Street Art in Tokyo?

tok_martin — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:08:05 +0000

Tokyo doesn’t have a lot of graffiti but there is some “street art” in certain parts, such as Naka-Meguro and Yoyogi. I found two huge works on the concrete pillars joining Yoyogi Park to Jinnan, near NHK in Shibuya.

The artist is called Suiko and he has done Street Art work all over Japan. I like the way he used traditional images, the dragon on the left, and a tiger on the right, in his very striking work. These concrete pillars are 3-4 meters high and quite impressive. He made them in the fall of 2005 when Berlin and Tokyo had a joint art project.

Website: Suiko1

Ashes & Snow

tok_jimmy — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:47:40 +0000

The Nomadic Museum has arrived in Odaiba, Tokyo. What looks like just a huge stack of cargo containers is actually a travelling photo exhibition by Canadian artist Gregory Colbert called Ashes & Snow which has come to Tokyo via New York and Santa Monica.
Don’t ask me for a review; I was kept out by the 1900Yen entry fee.

Listen to Bamboo Sound

tok_lhuga — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:33:44 +0000

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Originally uploaded by lhuga.

I happened to find this exhibition near Bashamichi station, MinatoMitai Line.
You can sit and listen to the relaxing sound there（BankART1929）.
Want to see more ?

ソファの1つに座って耳を澄ますと、竹のぶつかりあう音が上下左右から聞こえてきます。
いろんなところに音を出す仕掛けがあって、それぞれが各々のタイミングで動いたり止まったり。
インドネシアを少し思い出させる、とてもリラックスできて寝てしまいそうなステキな場所ですよ。

Fireworks in MM21

tok_lhuga — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:22:38 +0000

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Originally uploaded by lhuga.

I was lazy again :-)
So I just walked 5 minutes from my apartment to shoot fireworks.
This time I brought another digital camera, Dimage A2.
See more photos in my flickr page.

I need to teach myself photography…

???

tok_lhuga — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:44:43 +0000

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Originally uploaded by lhuga.

What is this ? Looks like a Godzilla chair.
I guess this is a sort of Arts.
I found more around this place, Nihon Odori. Very relaxing, I love to be there.