The Wind That Shakes
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
18 November 2006
East Belfast - loyalist phone boxes
East Belfast - loyalist phone boxes
Originally uploaded by Robby Garbett.
* borrowed for my blog
http://nofrills.seesaa.net/article/27706186.html
10 November 2006
6 or more households
6 or more households
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
The sky of 8 October 2006.
Another pic:
flickr.com/photos/nofrills/263879085/
Lines
Lines
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
The sky of 8 October 2006.
Another pic:
flickr.com/photos/nofrills/263879085/
15 October 2006
10 October 2006
Gift of Autumn
Gift of Autumn
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
After the storm.
It's been stormy really during the week. It was like a typhoon. The rain washed all the dust off the surface of the city, and the wind shook off the leaves, acorns, twigs and everything. And here's autumn. No more hot, humid, muggy days and nights.
The Sky Is High Today
The Sky Is High Today
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
A couple of days after a stormy weather. Very windy.
9 October 2006
Anna Politkovskaya on TV, Tokyo, Japan
Anna Politkovskaya on TV, Tokyo, Japan
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Off TV screen, NHK morning news, at about 7.30 am Sunday 8 October 2006, Tokyo, Japan.
The news was about the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent investigative journalist in Russia who has been reporting on the war in Chechenya.
from the BBC:
Chechen war reporter found dead
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5416218.stm
I've read her books and articles, in Japanese and English. I just don't know what to say. She got bullets for what she wrote? What a wonderful world.
17 September 2006
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.
3 September 2006
A baby, 2003
A baby, 2003
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A baby rescued from a bombed site. Iraq, 2003.
An atomic bomb victim, 1945
An atomic bomb victim, 1945
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
An archived film of an atomic bomb victim. Hiroshima, 1945. The chopsticks on the right is for medical purpose, not for eating.
A boy and a former baseball star
A boy and a former baseball star
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
This boy is now talking to Isao Harimoto, a former baseball star.
I remember Mr Harimoto very vividly. When I was a child, in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular baseball players. Slugger Harimoto hit a total of 3,000 hits in his career, and now he's a famous baseball pundit.
Despite the fact that he was a great professional baseball player, he has never been free from health worries. When he was five years old, he was in Hiroshima, and it was in the year 1945. He is one of the thousands of hibakusha (exposed person). He had to take blood test regularly even when he was a star player.
Here, he talks to the boy about what he hopes for the future - no weapons, no bombs.
A boy's eyes
A boy's eyes
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A close up shot of this shocked boy. He just stood there, and broke into a cold sweat. Later in the studio, he told he had never experienced this kind of sweat. What shocked him was, a boy at the same age was killed in the war. He also said the uniform was a bit small for his age.
A boy
A boy
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A close up shot of this shocked boy. He just stood there, and broke into a cold sweat. Later in the studio, he told he had never experienced this kind of sweat. What shocked him was, somebody, a boy at the same age, was killed in the war. He was shocked to see that a bomb kills. He also said the uniform was a bit small for his age.
A boy and a burned school uniform from 1945
A boy and a burned school uniform from 1945
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A Japanese boy, aged 13, visits Hiroshima for the first time and stands in front of what is left of a school uniform.
The boy in the uniform, aged 13 as well I think, was killed when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, 6 August 1945.
The boy (on the right) stands absolutely shocked. "War" was something real for him when he saw "the boy" of the same age.
Conflicts and wars
Conflicts and wars
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Conflicts and wars in the past ten years, including Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and the Balkans.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A boy on TV
A boy on TV
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Taken at my TV screen. 14 August 2006.
From a film originally shot in Iraq in 2003, by Mr Toshikuni Doi, a Japanese journalist.
This eight-year-old boy's name is Mustafa (or Moustafa), and he lives in Baghdad. In 2003, just days before the Iraq war ended, he was hit with a sharpnel in his left leg. At the time the journalist met him, he was on a hospital bed. The medicine there was not enough, which made it worse for the boy's leg. Doctors feared they would have to cut it off to save his life, and Mr Doi decided to begin some fund-raising activities in Japan. His website has some reports (in Japanese only).
On 14 August 2006, on the eve of the 61st VJ day, the NHK (Japan's BBC) aired a special program on "children and war". The program started with two pretty-boy actors' recent efforts on a war play, followed by this Mustafa report.
In the report, Mustafa was drawing some pictures. Whereas other children's pictures were about fighting, bombs, explosions and destruction, his were 1) a beautiful sunrise 2) a playground, a tree and the river. That's how his wounded boy sees, or wants to see, the world around him.
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