Walking from Shibuya to Daikanyama
These pics were taken yesterday evening as I walked from Shibuya to Daikanyama for the Snow Patrol show (which I didn’t end up getting into because I’m a moron and didn’t get round to buying advance tickets.)
Keeping abreast of the times
Street art in Naka Meguro
____________________________________________________________
Design Festa Vol 19 – 2004 Spring
Finally got around to putting up a little gallery from the recent Tokyo Design Festa Vol 19. Yet to come, some photos from a selection of beautiful Butoh Performances from the same festa. One day…
kichijoji streets
today was unseasonably cold and wet, putting an end to the current extreme weather record here. it’s been over 30 degrees (sometimes over 40 and humid as hell) every day for some 6 weeks or so. today at one point it was only 22. i had to put jeans and a long sleeved coat on and settle in with a DVD and coffee since the outdoor picnic/BBQ events i had planned on attending were cancelled.
my computer has been hijacked all weekend by my flatmate gabe in his last minute attempt to complete an application. its been weird having no computer access and tonight i find my room spotless, dust free and re-arranged; a small pile of handwritten letters all enveloped and addressed ready for posting tomorrow; and a very neat list of things i really need to do sitting beside them.
highly unusual behaviour really.
in a new york state of mind
goddamn it’s been so humid and hot (the last 2 days have been 37/6 degrees with 98% humidity!) it makes me imagine all those gang movies set in new york summers with everyone in their white singlets and looking like they just got out of the shower… which made me remember that i had never finished editing my pictures from the astonishing sakuragicho graffiti wall of fame!.
back in april i tooka daytrip with some friends to yokohama. we spent the day wandering around chinatown and the harbourside, riding (allegedly) the worlds biggest ferris wheel (scarier than one would imagine) and then photographing the endless offerings of graffiti on the other side of sakuragicho station. some of it was really very beautiful – and skillfully executed.
i think that maybe most of it was done by off-duty US army guys seeing there are some big bases in and around yokohama. but some of it definately shows signs of local flavour. i also uploaded some new pics to the tokyo street art sub-gallery and moved it into my “projects” gallery coz i wanna keep collecting this stuff.
hey if you wanna see some crazy animations, please check out darin‘s latest animations. i loved this stuff! goodonya daz.
he says:
“Technically this is advertising, which I’ve always said I don’t ever want to do, but it’s character animation (which I’ve always wanted to do), and during the meeting, they kept saying the most important thing is to ‘make it as crazy as possible,’ so I’m fine with it. Plus, they said the reason they chose me was that my sense of humor was ‘the closest to a junior high school boy’s,’ so I considered that a great compliment.”
been somewhat over-prolific here lately, i think i’m just hiding out from the humidity by hanging in my room (in the safety of the air con). have been keeping busy on the private student search front though – despite the heat. am up to 9 now! bring it on.
tokyo street art
urban guerilla street artists are prolific in tokyo.
please check out the updated tokyo street art gallery
midnight murals
sometime after midnight in tokyo a few weeks ago, i found myself making a long walk from subway station to a connecting JR station. my friend knew where we were but i had no idea. the entire path (a well travelled passage) had been decorated by a long and clever mural.
