stuff for you from Japan!

Hello! OK so first of all this Michael Serra was in the Toronto airport:

And also we saw this Louise Bourgueois piece in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo:

There was an exhibit in Roppongi of Middle Eastern artsist, which was too politically motivated for my tastes, but some things reminded me of you guys which is cool, and also there was a great technique used for one which I might like to appropriate down the road!

For Sio, these reminded me of your collages aesthetically. They are from a middle eastern artist.

For Park. This was a black water fountain. The video shows that the fountain was not falling back on water but a plastic-y surface which made a bad noise which I dislike and think detracts, but also lets the black fountain spatter around the fountain making a really beautiful drawing on the space around the fountain. Anyways I thought the black fountain idea was something you might be into (not to mention the cool space it is residing in): I thought i took a photo of this artists name but I didn't :(. i thought it looked like a really rad gravestone. which for me brings in a whole new opening point for the conversation sio and I were having about obituary videos and rolling credits. Could be cool to engrave credits on a gravestone, make rubbings, etc!

aaaand last but not least: In Japan there are Shinto shrines everywhere and you can pay a dollar to get a fortune. The fortune matches a stick you shake out of a can by way of a number. so you open a drawer with the number that matches the stick you shake out. If the fortune is bad, you tie it to a place in the shrine (picture below) which brings me to a whole new entry point to the wishing well idea! Anyways, take a look: