intense days, weeks

So, last couple days were pretty full of happenings and stuff, so I didn't really have time to write here :/

First off there was the weekend, which included some more architecture related traveling to a library by Toyo Ito. After that great gyoza and fried rice lunch for like 500 yen total. Seriously kickass price for a ton of food. Then there's a visit to Nakano, and Nakano Broadway specifically. Basically 4 floors of anime, manga, cells, figures, maidcafees, cosplay stores etc etc..

umm then monday started off with a visit to Midtown in Roppongi. Cool benches infront of the building, and on the backside there's a nice park, in connection to the hotel. Definetly a place to stay at if you're not on a budget. The Gallery shopping mall had highend boutiques -.-" but a bunch of well priced food places too. In the park there's also a Tadao Ando and Issey Miyake codesigned museum for art, called Design sight 21-21. 1k yen entrance and what turns out to be a somewhat overhyped museum and exhibition... :/ After that a short walk to the free Fuji Museum on the second floor of their shop. Nice old cameras, but just 2 boring exhibitions, one with portraits of japanese emigrants to brazil, and the bigger one with nature and flower photography. From like 50 pictures 2 made me go "Nice =) ", the rest was bland basic flower photography that you'll find in any random flickr users list of images.... First Highlight, or sorta was afterwards, when a bugatti Veyron drove past me. Since I was preoccupied with not drooling and running after it to ask for a small testdrive or even to be allowed to sit in it I didn't get my camera out in time for a pic :(

Afterward, Roppongi Hills, a BMW exhibit and a Turner price retro exhibit with works by all winners so far. And ofc City view and the roof that they just opened. Awesome. Nice pics of a just somewhat smoggy Tokyo.

In the evening off to Liquidroom in Ebisu for Autechre, Massonix and Rob Hall, the first 2 live, the last doing several DJ gigs. Massonix also did a DJ gig later that night. Autechre was just about as awesome and jawdropping as you'd expect. 1 Hour only :( but straight with no pauses, mixing live their synths and drummachines etc, in a totally packed main floor with no lights on. Cool....

Yesterday was a BBQ at a river, since it was Green Day, and a national holiday at that. So we, about 10 or so people, along with like 50000 other people were out BBQ along the river. Sun shines, it's like 25 degrees warm, no clouds anywhere and you can hear a soundsystem playing techno somewhere...