One day Kids' Park 05.05.11

During the GW, some people might had 10 days off in row, I only had 2 days off due to my occupation and I took part in this event, One day Kids' Park at Yoyogi Park, organized by the Art Re:Public Tokyo.

Even it opened under the cold weather, happy to see many kids and their families were participated!!!

Especially, so glad to see my friend came to join us! Thanks!

Happy that the mother told me they enjoyed the park.

 

Some photos from the Kid's Park;

Skateboard School

Hair Styling Booth

Long Black Board

Playing in the newspapers

Playing Footsal with professional players

"Look! Dancing Picture Book are Playing Now#1" by CONDORS

new style of picture story show

 

Never give up!

大好きなアーティストがいる。

彼らの名前はChim↑Pom。

一番最初に観たのは森美術館でだったと思う。

その後読売新聞で"Imagine"展の主題が視覚障害者のコミュニケーションであったので、清澄白河へ行った。それで、なんで視覚障害者を主題としたのかを教えてもらった。ブラインドサッカーから始まったのだそうだ。

そこで売っていたDVDからカンボジアのアイムボカンのことも知った。しかし、何で自分の人生とひとつ、ふたつ、重なるテーマが出てくるんだろう、そう思っていた。

広島の「ピカッ」のとき、自分は日本にいたはずなのに、そのニュースを見逃していた。ずっと気になっていた。

そして、3月11日に震災が起きた。その結果、表参道のPASS THE BATONで開催されている"Never give up!"展で、もう一度、広島の「ピカッ」と私が向き合えるチャンスを与えられたのだ。

PASS THE BATONなのに、その商品は買わずに、エキシビジョンの関連書籍のみを買って申し訳なかったが、『なぜ広島の空をピカッとさせてはいけないのか』はずっと気になっていた本だった。

そこには会田誠氏によって、Chim ↑ Pomが他のアーティストとは違う何かをもって、活動をしているのか、なぜ、自分の人生とひとつ、ふたつ、接点が出てくるのか、その理由が恥ずかしいくらいにはっきりと述べられていた。

Chim ↑ Pomの感覚が本当に大好きだ。

いつも彼らのアートに は「そこに在ること、そこで感じること、そこにいない他 者へそれを伝えること、ともに考えること、分断されている点と点をつないでいくこと」がビンビン流 れている。

特に今回の"Never give up!"展では、その感覚を強く感じた。

それがすごく嬉しくて、ありがとう、Chim ↑ Pom!、

同世代にChim ↑ Pomがいてくれることを本当に嬉しく思う。

 

adidas x PASS THE BATON

Back to November 26th, 2010, I went to adidas Originals 2011 SS sneaker exhibition " Then, Now and Forever"
held at Dictionary Club in Shibuya.


This time the exhibition was special, collaborated with PASS THE BATON, 79 creators exhibited their sneakers with their stories and visitors could entry that the lottery winner can buy it later.

Alexander Lee Chang's planter made from skateboard was beautiful and I've liked it since I saw it among Valicans at Creator's Park at CLASKA in 2009.

MADSAKI's samba!
I met it once at his adidas SUNSEX exhibition at Meguro Rice Factory in 2007!

Hakushaku's samba with studs strap!
Actually I and my mom have been a fan of his twitter since I was attend Inhabitant Tokyo opening reception at Cat Street, which street session was still so brilliant for me ever.
By this way, I bid for 3 creators as I myself was attend the very events in the past.

On 30th Jan,
I was in the mid of suffering for autotoxemia of oyster and couldn't attend at the presentation party at PASS THE BATON Omotesando.
One of my senior PR sms me that I won the Hakushaku's one!
What a good first luck of 2011!!!
Thank everyone those who supported this event very much.

Lou Ye Film x Yu Dafu novel

I was into Hongkong and Chinese movie during my high school days.
I loved the world of WongKar-wai x Christopher Doyle x Takeshi Kaneshiro.
But after that my fever was gone until I met this film through peoples' frequent tweets on TL;
Lou Ye's "Spring Fever"(2009) is it.



I went to watch it without any expectation.
But after the viewing, I totally got into Lou Ye's film and
Yu Dafu's story "春風沉醉的晚上" that the passages described a life of a poor guy in Shanghai,
which written in 1920's,
quoted into the film.
The poetic passages are perfectly beautiful even after it was translated into Japanese.


Da xie, Bung!
Now I got Yu Dafe's original text in Chinese!

Because of Lou Ye's fever in mine,
I tried "Suzhou River" (2000) and "Summer Palace" (2006), too.
I love "Suzhou River" as the landscape of Shanghai is much familiar for me after my visit there
and I love happy ending.

I think why I love Lou Ye's film because not only the perfectly beautiful poetic story, but also the effective sound track for sure.

STAFF BENDA BILILI got big hands in Tokyo!

Sorry for going back to October issue...but I need to update this one before ending 2010!



First time I heard about them from my favorite artist, MADSAKI's blog and wished the time come
to see their live performance.

I wanted to know about them as much as possible here in Tokyo
and it was really lucky that I could watch their documentary film;

The time came in Oct 11, 2010 at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall!

Staff Benda Bilili got big hands from public in Tokyo.
I was really excited with such situation never ever experienced.

I thought Ricky, himself is a polio survivor, can be an ambassador for some campaign in collaboration with some international organization such as UN,
and actually he is!!!