Inside of the booklet.
Basically most of the literature here can be found on the Japanese official site.
www.muginoho.jp/
But this map on the right side couldn't be found anywhere as far as I know. It shows where the film was shot.
Official booklet for the film "The Wind That Shakes Barley".
The colour is a bit funny here... due to the lighting (my desk top light!) The real colour is the green that symbolises Eire.
The film title and the islands are beautifully embossed.
Cillian Murphy's autograph on the poster.
Ken Loach's autograph on the poster.
View large, if you prefer. They started showing the film "the Wind that Shakes the Barley" on 18 November here in Tokyo.
And if you read Japanese, here's my blog entry.
nofrills.seesaa.net/article/28127911.html
They started showing the film "the Wind that Shakes the Barley" on 18 November here in Tokyo.
I went to see the film at Cine-Quanon Yurakucho (near Ginza) and this is the outside view. It may sound a bit strange, but the cinema is located on the 8th floor of the building, which used to be a department store and now hosts a Bic Camera (a wide range of domestic electric appliances, computers, cameras etc etc).
This is a reposted picture, again, as I don't want this one to slip away.
Original post, which is about one year ago, is here, and another post here, and here, each with some comments.
thirty-year-old sign of "no nukes declaration." large letters were possibly hand-written, in a very beautiful authentic style.
"No Nukes Declaration" can be seen in a lot of cities around Japan, because Japan is the first country that was nuke-bombed (in 1945).
peace. :-)
PS
Feel free to use this pic on your blog if you like.
A set of booklet and postcard from a special exhibition in Tokyo.
These minton tiles, some of which were most probably designed by AWN Pugin, were used for a 1896 building by a British architect, Josiah Conder (1852 - 1920).
[a picture for my blog]
nofrills.seesaa.net/article/26779652.html
See the Urban Nature group blog, too. :)
http://urbannaturegroup.blogspot.com/2007/01/shadows-01.html
* borrowed for my blog
http://nofrills.seesaa.net/article/27706186.html
The sky of 8 October 2006.
Another pic:
flickr.com/photos/nofrills/263879085/
The sky of 8 October 2006.
Another pic:
flickr.com/photos/nofrills/263879085/
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.
A couple of days after a stormy weather. Very windy.
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.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art:
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
This museum, built in 1938, was originally a house of a wealthy businessman, Mr Hara.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art:
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
This museum, built in 1938, was originally a house of a wealthy businessman, Mr Hara.
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.
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...
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.
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
In the front yard of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
Summer weed.
In the front yard of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
www.haramuseum.or.jp/
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").
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.
At the Serbian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan.
www.serbianembassy.jp/
Nothing political intended. Just the colours and shapes.
Best viewed large. A metal plate found at the back of an unused warehouse.
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.
