Almost golden
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
12 September 2006
shadows
shadows
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art:
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
This museum, built in 1938, was originally a house of a wealthy businessman, Mr Hara.
shadows
shadows
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art:
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
This museum, built in 1938, was originally a house of a wealthy businessman, Mr Hara.
It's a Sony
It's a Sony
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
At the front yard gallery (?) of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
An old SONY Trinitron Colour TV. Probably from the 1980s. We have almost forgot this type of TV. We even don't remember how to switch this on. Only after I thought for a while, I remembered I used to pull and push the knob. (I'm stupid the knob is out of the frame.)
This was placed just behind the Pink Telephone. While a pay phone was usually put outside a building, an outside TV is unusual.
Pink
Pink
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
At the front yard gallery (?) of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
This kind of public telephone (Pink Telephone) has now long gone... 20 years or so. Basically the artist put these "useless" objects there, probably to remind people of their "long-gone" recent past.
Of this kind of feeling, we use the word なつかしい [na-tsu-ka-shi-i].
And this "piece of art" looks very ironic to me. A なつかしい telephone from the 1970s or 1980s that doesn't work any more and has retired can make "a piece of art" in a museum's front yard. Not so on the street, but after seeing this at the museum, you'd feel somewhat different when you see this pink pay-phone on the street. This is how art can make a difference, I suppose...
The arts start here
The arts start here
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
In front of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.
Apparently an artist named Ken drew this. And the shadow is, it's a friend of mine there.
Museum entrance
Museum entrance
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art:
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
This museum, built in 1938, was originally a house of a wealthy businessman, Mr Hara, in the middle of a quiet residencial area.
The exhibision was "Yoroyoron", which can be translated as "Unstable Public Opinion", by a young Japanese artist, Tabaimo. Her ways of looking at things really grabbed me: she's so sure she's one of the public and that is where she stands - she doesn't look down. She doesn't see herself as somebody special. And her drawing is just amazing.
www.fujitv.co.jp/event/art-net/go/333.html
www.enjoytokyo.jp/OD004Detail.html?EVENT_ID=42330
Life in Green
Life in Green
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
In the front yard of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
Green, red and white
Green, red and white
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Summer weed.
In the front yard of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
A small manhole cover
A small manhole cover
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
In front of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.
The mark at the centre is the character (letter) "品", which is part of the area's name "品川" (reads "Shina gawa").
10 September 2006
Flag
Flag
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
At the Serbian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan.
The doorplate at the embassy still says "Serbia and Montenegro", though.
The Embassy is just next to Hara Museum of Contemporary art.
PS.
The Serbian Embassy's website is:
www.serbianembassy.jp/
NOTHING POLITICAL INTENDED. JUST THE COLOURS AND SHAPE. THE WIND, TOO.
Blue, white and red; dance - mozaic
Blue, white and red; dance - mozaic
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
At the Serbian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan.
www.serbianembassy.jp/
Nothing political intended. Just the colours and shapes.
Kind of drifting into the abstract
Kind of drifting into the abstract
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Best viewed large. A metal plate found at the back of an unused warehouse.
What we depend upon
What we depend upon
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
I was not much affected by yesterday's power cut.
By the way it's amusing the BBC never forgets about those "women-only" train carriages.
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