Archive for the ‘art in Tokyo’ Category
The gallery near Roppongi Mid-town, Gallery Tokyo Banboo held Paper Doll Exhibition.
24 Japanese most popular drawing artists made original paper dolls. There are lots of paper dolls, Michael Jackson, Yoko Ono & etc.. You can buy each of them at 1,260JPY.
“Yuru chara” means weaker characterized characters. Japanese illustration artist, Jun Miura named that concept “Yuru chara” firstly. Yuru Chara does not like Disney’s charactor and Japanese animation. Most of them are designed with amateurism.
Japanese loves characters. but sometimes they feel business mind inside of characters. So they prefer to amateurism. Jun miura gathered lots of Yuru chara at his exhibition.
His idea is very unique.
Jun miura (japanese)
Yuru chara (Wikipedia Japan)
LaQua is attraction, and shop & restaurant zone near Tokyo Dome. Beautiful Christmas illuminations are there for winter season.
There are 5 illminated art objects.
I took photos 3 of 5.
LaQua (English site)
Google Maps
Omotesando Christmas illminations started for this month. It has ended since 1999 for influence of trafific jam.
That’s beautiful!! (but overcrowded.)
This event wikk keep up until Jan.10.
Cross stitch artist, Makoto Ozu invented hand made watch named as K-SHOCK.
K-SHOCK made with knitting wool. “K” is as same prpnounciation as wool in Japanese.
Ozu is amazing artist for unique cross stich pattern. He stitches on note book and partation bord.
My friend has stationary brand, bonboog. She made new item. It’s a ball pen with dry flower. That name is Classic pen. I have mimoza flower pen.
There are also another kind of pens with artificial flowers, such as anemones.
They available at some museum shop in Tokyo.
Jimmy Choo press team told us about their photo competition, PROJECT PEP - You, your shoes and 72 to raise awareness and funds for AIDS victims. Grand Prize is amazing!! Let’s try to enter this competition.
THE COMPETITION
Jimmy Choo and Elton John AIDS Foundation have launched a photo competition to support the launch of Project PEP, a charity collection that donates 25% of sales to the Simelela Rape Centre in South Africa. The money goes towards providing the HIV-preventative treatment PEP (which must be taken within 72 hours of exposure to HIV) and counselling to victims of rape in South Africa, which has the highest count of rape in the world.
ENTRIES
The theme of the photo competition is ‘You, Your Shoes and 72’, and as you can see from some of the photo entries below, we’ve had a very diverse response over the past few weeks:
PRIZES
The overall winners will be announced after the competition close on 7th December. On offer is a Grand Prize of the ultimate Jimmy Choo VIP experience – the winner will be invited to spend a day of luxury and the Jimmy Choo HQ and choose 7 pairs of shoes and 2 handbags to keep. Plus over 100 exclusive Jimmy Choo prizes will also be awarded.
Suso Akiko is a cute woman who works as an illustrator and also a hat designer.
An exhibition featuring her works as a hat designer was held in Aoyama, Tokyo.
The exhibition was inspired by Japan’s prehistoric Jomon earthware.
Everybody is trying funny but cute hat and Hair bands,and having happy fun time at the exhibition.
Suso Akiko official site (japanese)
Suso Akiko (1101.com /japanese)
