Azabu Hills

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Two pictures taken in Azabu around my flat, on my way to buy some omiyage. First is a Shrine (with a digitaly added building in the background… ;-) ). Second one is the path next to the Moto Azabu Hills tower….

Matrix @ Shibuya

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Matrix Reloaded is out since this week end. Seemingly, already full booked for the next 3 weeks (almost not exagerated). I like quite a lot the movie posters, quite cool, and I guess, from the number of those you can find in Shibuya, that this second Matrix will be a huge blockbuster… I think I’ll go for the motorbike scene… or Monica Bellucci ….

Links:
– Download the Animatrix at: Into The Matrix
– The Matrix Ducati 996 (seemingly, Ducati doesn’t want to sell their new 999).

City Inc.

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Some pictures taken today while driving around: Roppongi Hills, the now famous new Prada Shop (Designed by Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Switzerland. Cost around $85 million. Opening June 6th 2003. 3,500 Visitors for the opening week end), and two anonymous trains…

Mental Escape at The Tokyo Photo Museum

Very interesting exhibition at Ebisu – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, for the month of photography in Tokyo. First part of the visit was the Nobuyoshi ARAKI’s « Hana-Jinsei » exhibition, an already acclaimed japanese photographer. The atmosphere was quite oppressive, the surronding music and the theme of the photos, from black & white to extremely vivid colors intriguing dying flowers. Quite fascinating some time as I keep some of the images in my head now. The second part was more relaxing for the mind (we needed it?). Eddie and I were quite impressed by some of the works from the IN&OUT exposition from Japanese Students, developping various themes, sometime with humour. We enjoyed a lot this part. This IN (Internal world) & OUT (look to Society) expo is from May, 30th till June 15th, entrance is Free. Araki’s one is 1,000Yens.

Apartment Cafe Evening

hajk_accafe_01.jpgA nice cafe in Harajuku, Tokyo Apartment Cafe, we go quite often with Eddie and Thierry. The atmosphere is cool, quite 70’s like. I love this decoration, and especially the part on the picture, quite relaxing for a talk after work.

Today’s « meeting » was mainly website related. Thierry is building a high-potential website, but still under construction at this time. High potential as it’s already 3 years it has been started, but he has always been keeping the secret on the content… Anyway, we’ll just have to wait (2 more years???)