Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Spring summer sampling


Great example of ENGRISH

The outdoor Sumo tournament under the cherry blossoms at Yasukuni shrine

Taro Okamoto's home was turned into a museum after the great artists death



At Yasukuni again. This time workers are preparing a huge lantern display for the Summer festival

Decorating the side of a shrine in Okatama, the mountainous area west of Tokyo

Too tired to care on the commuter train

Some unique incongruent archetecture tucked into a small neighborhood in Ichigaya Tokyo

Wave crashing up the stairs in Pacifica California

Friend Geo meets San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome to unvail Geo's eco globe that he won a commision to create for the cool globe nation wide exhibition

And there it is

Potrero Hill in SF view

Dave at Ventura beach

Kevin and Dale at Bottle Village Simi Valley

There has been a long running effort to preserve whats left of Grandma Prisby's creation Bottle village. This is the best preserved room.

Janice Wilson was the principal care taker of Bottle Village for many years. She went so far as to stay in Grandma Prisby's tiny trailer in order to protect the property. She was an instigator in the lives of many young Suburban artists in the area. She got us out and envolved in living our ideas.

Rest in peace, Janice

Checking out Sea Lions with the Lovejoy family sailboating in Santa Barbara
Congrats on the new baby girl

Brother Adam and Nefiew Conrad going ballistic at a childrens play center in Agoura CA. for Conrads birthday party

Nezu shrine Tokyo. The evening of the Summer festival (actually it's fall festival if you use the Chinese calendar). Traditional dance is provided on an ancient open air stage. Intoxicated blurry cell phone photo provided by me.

View of Ochanomizu Station from the Kanda river. The boat ride was provided ecology group that worked with the Chiyoda District of Tokyo. The river was constructed about four hundred years ago to provide water to central tokyo from outlying areas. Some of the original work remains as the river is a patchwork of development up to the present day.

Window washer at about two hundred feet up looking out our Condominium

Sculpture telling time, moving and speaking... thinking... Shibuya Tokyo