| Sunday, 30th July, "Ikebukuro Art Fesival day2" |
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| Saturday, 29th July, "Ikebukuro Art Fesival day1" |
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at the Sunshine plaza park we had a performance,"First Blood".(HK) |
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Openning greetings of the Ikebukuro Art Festival exective committee. |
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Lucien Cole dancing with Tokyo Tosakoi Kids Dancers with 60th music. |
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| Friday, 28th July, "Installations at Takada primary School" |
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Kate build a small blue room for the light sculptures. |
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I hang my drawings with washing pegs. |
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| Thursday, 27th July, "Grizedale Arts @ Superdeluxe" |
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At the Superdeluxe live house in Roppongi, they had performance. |
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In the morning, Kate and I went to do the water adjustment for the fountain I just made last month for the new building site in Toyosu, Tokyo. |
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| Tuesday, 25th July, "Ikebukuro Art Fesival Opening Party" |
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Openning party at one of the famous Frank Loyd building in Ikebukuro, which was built for Jiyuu Gakuen School years ago. |
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| Monday, 24th July, "Tsumari Art Toriennale day2" |
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Richard Deacon's jiant sosages. Kei and EI Okuno' old traditional japanese farmers house is curved all over the surface just like a wood cut, looks amazing. We drove down to Tokyo to join Ikebukuro people in the afternoon. (HK) |
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And soon, we are asked to help translation for Bedweyr's reharsal with three students' volunteer at the Takada Primary School. |
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| Sunday, 23rd July, "Tsumari Art Toriennale day2" |
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Opening celemony of the Tsumari Art Triennale 2006 at Tokamachi Kinare in Niigata. We just manage to get in 20 min. late. We joined with group from Ikebukuro Art Festival and went around to see the pieces all day by tour bus the organised. (HK) |
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Grizedale Show in the evening at Nobutai. We stayed at newly opened hostel restored old shool building. Had nice talk with lots of youg artists there staying until 3 in the morning.(HK) |
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| Saturday, 22nd July, "Kentaro" |
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We drove to Niigata to visit Sato who Iwas together in Amaliada residence programme. He is living in the rural area surounded by mountains and river. He has lots of properties which he turned into mini-hotel and restaurant, gallery and jomon musum, a studio with his friends.(HK) |
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| Thursday, 20th July, "Parcels to Ikebukuro" |
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Kate has packed her sculptures for Ikebukuro Art Show, while I was working on International Asociation stuff.(HK) |
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| Monday, 17th July, "Yupias" |
| Summer holliday programme. Emily, kate, Sean and Haruhi-kun toether went to UPIAS(ewimming pool) in Morioka. There is streaming water and jiant slider. Great fun. (HK) |
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| Saturday, 15th July, "Ukishima Sculpture Garden" |
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We cleaned one space by moving offcut stones, to make an exhibition area. Kate 's piece looks great there.(HK) |
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| Thursday, 13th July, "Studio" |
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Kate was working very hard while my visit to Greece, producing a lot of mini pieces for the show in autumn. And also Sean was eorking hard to make something for summer holliday homework in her studio. I at last started to opening mails and emails stacked up on my desk. (HK) |
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| Tuesday, 11th July, "Back Home" |
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I arrived in Narita one hour late. Got back home, Ukishima in the early evening. (HK) |
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| Monday, 10th July, "Tools" |
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Parthenon is ofcorce my main interest of visiting Athens, but another important mission here is to get marble tools for Kate. I arrived on Saturday here. All tool shops are closed for weekends. I was waiting until this morning, but I also have to catch my flight on 12:50. I have to check in at the airport at 10:50. It takes about for one hour by bus to the airport(9:50). It takes 15 min. to the shop by taxi(9:35). Shop here usualy opens at 9:00, so, I have 35min. for shopping if everything goes well. I asked Basilis in Amaliada to phone this shop to open early as possible. I went there 8:15 before breakfast just in case he got our message. Yes, shop was opened and waiting for me! This is the nice young owner of the shop in the photoraph with me.(HK) |
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Fasinating collection of the marble tools!!! Better than the acheological museum! Impossible get them in Japan. I tried to squeese my wallet until last penny to get almost all of the tools. I went back to the hotel and had a happiest breakfast in my life. Suitecase weigh over 31kg at the airport... |
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| Sunday, 9th July, "Partheon" |
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Started early to visit the Parthenon in Acropolis in Athens. Now still under the restoration. What's amazing about Parthenon is not only that size and perfection, but the location where it is built. The size of this kind of large ancient building is not only Todaiji temple in Kyoto, but barbeck in Lebanon is hundred times bigger and misterious. |
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But the Acropolis has certainly magical enchantment of the place, viewing all around Athens and Agen Sea beyond. Just breathtaking. (HK) |
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completely restored beautiful Ancient Agora. |
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After suvenior shopping in the centre of Athens, I suddenly realised my digital camera's memory is full now after taking 500 shots in Acropolis, so I turned back to the hotel once and downloaded all images to empty the card. After a bit of lunch break, I went to Marisool travel office which japanese master organised my hotel in Athens, paid the ill and he kindly exchanged the japanese yen to euro for tommorow's big tool shopping. |
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Now I must go to the Acheological museum! I looked around for two good hours. I was too late to buty the catalogue. Amazing sculpture collections!! I'm now big fun of greek sculptures more than Roman's. Then went to the restaurant to have some kebab, ana back to the hotel to watch final game of world cup.
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Agamemnon's mask and Statue of kicrades island. |
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Emily is playing in the group piano concert in Iwate. |
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Sean playing,too. |
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Emily and her best friend Nana. |
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| Saturday, 8th July, "Set On and Off to Athens" |
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The last day. I was waiting the maschines and people to set my sculpture since 9 O'clock, but nobody turned out until 11 O'clock. Anyway, this is greece. But even Apostolis and Basilis came nobody seems to me that nothing is really arranged for today! They told me the problem now they have is that the drill, to drill holes for the pins, is locked in the toolshed with the key inside! They send a man to city office to get a spare key, but today is holliday, everything works slow, if it works. But as you see, piece is now set in the squre happily!! |
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This sculpture will be set on the proper base, which will be made next month. |
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Saying good-bye to everybody, to the Symposium people and Axilleon. Back into hotel, and quickly had a shower and changed and put suitcase back of the Takis's car, picked up Maria and drove down to Athens at 2:30. |
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arrived in Athens at 6 O'clock in the evening. Got into the hotel and phones home. I can use my cell phone here. Relaxed and watch the world cup football match. |
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| Friday, 7th July, "Last Supper" |
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Last touch to my sculpture and having a last dinner with sculptors lot. Towards weekends many wives came to join the party.(HK) |
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| Thursday, 6th July, "Sculptors" |
| Almost completed my piece in the morning. Afternoon I went to see the Sculpture symposium site at the closed driving school near my working site. It took only 10 minuetes to walk. They are working with ine assistant each. |
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Dionysos and achilles. Dearest Dionysos is making a love statue according to greek mythology. Achilles is planning to go to art school in Edinburgh next year. |
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Christov and Pan, They are father and son. A ship-like herp shape sculpture, they are making. |
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Rokos and George. Very friendly Rokos from the first the time we met.George used to have a japanese girlfriend! |
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I can never remember his name, sorry. He looked very dificult person, because he does not speak any english but greek. But after we ate meals he looks happy and smiling. |
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Christov and Odysseas. He is going to paint his abstruct piece in black and gold. |
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Papayannis and Costas. He is the only one who has been in japan for the wymposium somewhere in Yamaguchi. |
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Geroge is now gack in Athen. It is always exciting to be in asculpture symposium. Symposium is my "HOME". (HK) |
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| Tuesday, 4th July, "Symposium" |
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Some Greek sculptors arrived in Achillion. They are going to work out here for over a month. The word "Symposion" means "Drinking Party" in Greek originaly from here, which Carl Plantle used for the sculpture project he started in Austria in 1959. (HK) |
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| Monday, 3rd July, "Stand" |
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More marbles arrived. I tried to stand my puece.(HK) |
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| Sunday, 2nd July, "Parchi(Harbour) Festival" |
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Harvour Fest. Greek country music concert and fireworks and a lot of fish! I went there with Apostolis , Janicha and Papagenos, their friend. It sounded amazing, I mean, if someone who never familiar with japansese modern culture, listened to the japanese Enka, the folk popular song, for the first time, it must sound like this to me!! Somehow slow and out of beat, so it sounds like a sea sick almost to me. Getting drunk. Many people at the back of the concert place, dancing happily together just like Anthony Quinn. Papagenos took us to the fancy restaurant along the beach, called Loca. He always smoke giant size Havana cigar just look like a gang boss. He is very succesfull after he moved to Canada and started new bussines We are enjoying Cogniac. This restaurant has very nice grill menus. I went to bed at three.(HK) |
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| Saturday, 1st July, "Dream" |
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At lunch I had Musaka and fried flat fish with Uzo. My body at last get used to the climate and olive oils here after three weeks. I was invited to the party in the evening at Mr.Liosis house for his name day party. One nice youg lower Mikis, took me to the night club, called Calua. Huge place and a lot of people!! He is almost look like a club owner and he knows everybody in town there. He took me around and introduced to me many nice guys and girls.
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