April 16th, 2008 — Culture
One of the peculiarities to notice in Japan is the level of cuteness of objects in the living world. Here everything has a “cute” value. I plan to make work for a show in Kyoto this June relating to this topic. Recently I entered a store called bulldog that sells many cute [...]
April 11th, 2008 — Culture
Returning home from a gallery exhibition I entered the constantly moving arteries of Nagoya City which shuffle people and goods here and there with all the compassion of a well oiled cold machine. This is just one of the human transporters gliding down metal rails on a single spot of the globe among many [...]
March 21st, 2008 — Culture
America is the land of liberty right? “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Maybe it should have read “yearning to shop” or [...]
September 25th, 2007 — Nagoya
Tonight was the actual moon viewing night for Japanese to view the full moon in Autumn. Luckily it was a clear night unlike the earlier moon festival in the woods. For that festival a yellow fan on a stick substituted for the moon. Unlike the US the moon in Japan is yellow [...]
September 23rd, 2007 — Culture
The park I visited on my first day of exploration turned out to be quite the place. After taking Mimi there a day before she decided to do some photo test shoots there for her next project. We set out with photography equipment, her bunny suit and lots of bug spray. The [...]
September 12th, 2007 — Travel
Time for a Fulbright style welcome. Mimi and I took a highway bus to Tokyo to attend a reception for the current Fulbright grantees at the house of the deputy minister to the US embassy. Buses are a cheap way to travel around big cities in Japan instead of the Shinkansen. The [...]
September 5th, 2007 — Travel
After looking at 8 different apartments at 3 different real estate companies, I finally made a decision. This took a long time because within my budget getting a place with enough space while being clean and new was difficult. Some of the apartments were quite big, but on closer inspection left one a [...]