photoshigenic 14 translation 01-2009
This is a little out of order but that's ok. Including myself, everyone must be curious about Shige's adventures in NY with Koyama so here it is. And it's quite entertaining to boot!
photoshigenic 14 -- Wink Up Jan 2009
Credit goes out to all those who sent me the article (if you want a specific shout out just comment)
If you're curious, the first photo is on 42nd St, the second is in Times Square (obviously) a couple blocks away from Central Park, if I'm not mistaken. :D
-- the very last night is...
I think people already know this but I, Kato Shigeaki, went with Koyama Keiichiro to NY. I had time off so I decided to go overseas and bought a ticket to NY, but by accident Koyama wanted to go as well, so we ended up going together. What kind of miracle is this? Suddenly I've got a bad feeling... Well since the two of us hurriedly decided to stay in NY for 5 nights and 7 days, we didn't reserve a hotel room, and there was only one room available with one king size bed. ...very awkward indeed. In the middle we made a separating post, and even though each of us slept on the edge of the bed, on the third night, when I woke up we were sleeping with our feet close together. On the fourth night Koyama was half awake and he put his left hand on my right hand. Bit by bit it's rising from the bottom of our body to the top... On the fifth and last night, I cannot say that we slept completely separate from each other.
-- photoshigenic 14
The other day when he went to New York, Shige developed an appreciation for modern art at an art museum. Because of that, with his eyes awakened by the art, in the studio (at his own discretion) he held an exhibition of Tegoshi's artwork, enthusiastically appreciating it. Every month, the painting's style always leaves an impact from every direction, perhaps he is one of the modern impressionists...
Polaroid: Painter Tegoshi's artwork (the first one I'm not sure what it is and the second one means whale)
Art is difficult. In MoMA
-- 3hour or 1day?
In Koyama's high hopes, we went to a outlet in a NY suburb. Over there, they have stocked numerous amounts of brand named clothing that you can buy, and to look around the whole place would probably take one whole day. But the outlet that I went to, there are people who believe that 3 hours is enough to become familiar with the place. I didn't know where I was going, and since I couldn't read the time, I left in the morning and rode on the bus for at least an hour, and got to the outlet at 11:30am. The two of us took our time looking and circling the place and bought two or three things, and when we finished looking it was 2:30 in the afternoon. We did a perfect 3 hours of shopping and then went to go back by bus, but it just left five minutes beforehand. The next bus wouldn't come for another hour and half... Are you serious? We were lost and we didn't know what to do to kill time. Finally the bus came and we went to board it but there was a long line to get on. ...What the hell? We got on the next bus and departed at 4:30 in the afternoon. After a traffic jam we finally got back to Times Square at 6:30pm. ...Everyone. An outlet takes up one whole day so you should make sure you have plenty of time on your hands.
There are SO many things I can say:
Shige must've visited the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)... which I'm beating myself in the head for because I was considering visiting the MoMA during the time that he was in NY. Oh wells. And when Shige refers to an "outlet" I am assuming he means a shopping mall, because what an outlet is in America is different from what he is describing. Outlets normally are giant warehouses that sell a wide variety of goods from one manufacturer-- for instance, Nike Outlet Stores sell everything ever made by Nike. If I had to guess, Shige probably went to the Palisades Mall (or possible Woodbury Commons!) b/c it's located in upstate NY and is quite large. And he probably didn't know that rush hour in NY is from 4-7 which is why it takes forever to get anywhere... add to that the fact that public transportation is NEVER on time in America compared to Japan, which is almost always on time.
Nevertheless it still pains me to think that he was so close yet so far... yet again. I guess I'll just have to get used to it. D:
photoshigenic 14 -- Wink Up Jan 2009
Credit goes out to all those who sent me the article (if you want a specific shout out just comment)
If you're curious, the first photo is on 42nd St, the second is in Times Square (obviously) a couple blocks away from Central Park, if I'm not mistaken. :D
-- the very last night is...
I think people already know this but I, Kato Shigeaki, went with Koyama Keiichiro to NY. I had time off so I decided to go overseas and bought a ticket to NY, but by accident Koyama wanted to go as well, so we ended up going together. What kind of miracle is this? Suddenly I've got a bad feeling... Well since the two of us hurriedly decided to stay in NY for 5 nights and 7 days, we didn't reserve a hotel room, and there was only one room available with one king size bed. ...very awkward indeed. In the middle we made a separating post, and even though each of us slept on the edge of the bed, on the third night, when I woke up we were sleeping with our feet close together. On the fourth night Koyama was half awake and he put his left hand on my right hand. Bit by bit it's rising from the bottom of our body to the top... On the fifth and last night, I cannot say that we slept completely separate from each other.
-- photoshigenic 14
The other day when he went to New York, Shige developed an appreciation for modern art at an art museum. Because of that, with his eyes awakened by the art, in the studio (at his own discretion) he held an exhibition of Tegoshi's artwork, enthusiastically appreciating it. Every month, the painting's style always leaves an impact from every direction, perhaps he is one of the modern impressionists...
Polaroid: Painter Tegoshi's artwork (the first one I'm not sure what it is and the second one means whale)
Art is difficult. In MoMA
-- 3hour or 1day?
In Koyama's high hopes, we went to a outlet in a NY suburb. Over there, they have stocked numerous amounts of brand named clothing that you can buy, and to look around the whole place would probably take one whole day. But the outlet that I went to, there are people who believe that 3 hours is enough to become familiar with the place. I didn't know where I was going, and since I couldn't read the time, I left in the morning and rode on the bus for at least an hour, and got to the outlet at 11:30am. The two of us took our time looking and circling the place and bought two or three things, and when we finished looking it was 2:30 in the afternoon. We did a perfect 3 hours of shopping and then went to go back by bus, but it just left five minutes beforehand. The next bus wouldn't come for another hour and half... Are you serious? We were lost and we didn't know what to do to kill time. Finally the bus came and we went to board it but there was a long line to get on. ...What the hell? We got on the next bus and departed at 4:30 in the afternoon. After a traffic jam we finally got back to Times Square at 6:30pm. ...Everyone. An outlet takes up one whole day so you should make sure you have plenty of time on your hands.
There are SO many things I can say:
Shige must've visited the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)... which I'm beating myself in the head for because I was considering visiting the MoMA during the time that he was in NY. Oh wells. And when Shige refers to an "outlet" I am assuming he means a shopping mall, because what an outlet is in America is different from what he is describing. Outlets normally are giant warehouses that sell a wide variety of goods from one manufacturer-- for instance, Nike Outlet Stores sell everything ever made by Nike. If I had to guess, Shige probably went to the Palisades Mall (or possible Woodbury Commons!) b/c it's located in upstate NY and is quite large. And he probably didn't know that rush hour in NY is from 4-7 which is why it takes forever to get anywhere... add to that the fact that public transportation is NEVER on time in America compared to Japan, which is almost always on time.
Nevertheless it still pains me to think that he was so close yet so far... yet again. I guess I'll just have to get used to it. D: