Blog - Back home
Back home
We're now back home from passing our 3-day weekend outside of Tokyo, in Ibaraki. It felt good to get some fresh air and to be far from the crowds!
Yesterday, we caught some nice autumn sights on a mountain and walked on a suspended bridge (which was far from being as shaky as I expected it to be, but yet succeeded in scaring some).
The last picture below is a strange sign with antennas... There was no antenna in sight. Some kind of corporate art?
Today we went to Mito for some shopping and to see the Yoko Ono exhibition at Art Tower Mito, before going back home.
The exhibition, titled Yes Yoko Ono, featured I think a total of 160 works of all media (installations, sculptures, handwriting, paintings, photography, video), mostly focusing on the beginning of her career in the 60's.
At the entrance was the "Yes painting" installation of a ladder leading to a magnifier that lets you read the word "YES" painted on the ceiling, however it wasn't allowed to touch it. This is the installation that apparently brought John and Yoko together.
There were several interactive installations, such as "Apple", of which all visitors are welcome to have a bite, and "Amaze", a maze of transparent walls leading to a toilet in the center. There was also the "Telephone Piece", a live telephone to which Yoko herself gives a ring once in a while. Apparently she had just called about an hour before we got there, and talked with visitors for about 20 minutes.
It was for me a good opportunity to find out more about her works since I wasn't too familiar! Plus it was pretty cheap at only 800yen!
This weekend, I could start and complete this collection of miniature vintage Famicom (Nintendo) stuff! I got them in a gacha-gacha machine, I was lucky and completed the collection of 5 items in 6 tries! I also grabbed a Epoché character.
Also I started another collection of CD singles that come with candy. This time it's old anime theme songs!
I don't know any of them though except for Galaxy Express 999.
Posted on November 25, 2003 at 01:00 | Tweet
|
Comments RSS
As I said on William's blog ... i'd become a chocoholic if i lived in Japan ..
and those miniature things are freaky :)
Posted by Peter on November 25, 2003 at 01:22
et voila je suis jaloux ;) ahhhh je veux plein de choses à collectionner !!!
bon, il faut que je revienne bientot :)
Posted by Antonin on November 25, 2003 at 02:37
the yoko ono exhibit sounds really cool!
those anime singles look kind of fun. too bad they aren't from before the 70s, i think the music then was even more interesting.
Posted by william on November 25, 2003 at 12:27
I think it's pretty cool they're from the 70's. I'm just glad they're not 90's stuff, I'd have nothing to do with Pokemon and Dragonball themes. :)
The ones I picked up so far (Zubat and Devilman) are good!
The series is marked 第１弾 (volume 1), so hopefully there will be a volume 2 with more!
Posted by Patrick on November 25, 2003 at 12:39
yeah it would of been terrible if they were from the 90s. it looks like one of those is from kamen rider. i have some of their early theme songs which are quite good. same goes for ultraman.
Posted by william on November 27, 2003 at 13:19
collection of miniature vintage Famicom (Nintendo) stuff? how...different! i collected stamps before...that was little more affordable:)
beautiful Ibaraki shots. red, yellow and green!!! wow, so purdy!
Posted by Wesley on November 28, 2003 at 23:15