a little art . . .

went to roppongi to catch Inception but stopped off early to catch Sensing Nature, the new exhibit at the Roppongi Hills Mori Art Museum.

first up was Yoshioka Tokujin's Snow, a giant flurry of down feathers. i swear my nose was itching. . . .

D and Cheech examine a piece of optical glass:

at 4.5 meters long, this is the world largest single piece of optical glass. looks like a see-through picnic table to me:

i can see you . . . .

a video installation that i didn't quite understand. three sides of a giant cube showed different videos. here are a couple of views from the corners:

Shinoda Taro's GINGA; bottles of water hanging from the ceiling dropping tiny drops of water into the still pool below:

D notices a pattern in the drops:

they were barely discernible in the pool:

i was confused at first when i walked into kuribayashi takashi's wald aus wald. it was like a giant piece of crunched up paper with holes in it hanging low off the ceiling:

turns out there's stuff above the paper!

look! its cheech and D!

always strange to see your own disembodied head floating in a sea of white.

or D's.

i call this one Giant Pile o' Dirt:

decorated yatai (street vendor carts) and a video installation:

Tromarama, a stop action like video of wood carvings . very cool:

i feel so cultured!