Isozaki's ideas and drawings (if they aren't the same) about the air city are also really amazing. where they included in the show? I first saw them at Archilab, and was really blown away.
"...or how modern civilization was all about doing naked socialist-fascist callisthenics with your comrades."
I'm shocked to hear that you don't sound like much of a fan of rajio taiso (brief YouTube clip here). You've written about the flight to Japan before. For me, that moment when I drop my guard and start exercising along to the video with the rest of the plane (somewhere over Khabarovsk or similar) is when I realise I'm effectively in Japan already.
it's interesting the way the ideas of metabolism have morphed into those of say atelier bow-wow (a true metabolism, though they woldn't call it so, stripped of all modernist ill).
metabolism's effect in japan has really been double edged.
the kurokawa osaka sony building apparently's been renovated recently while the nakagin capsule tower, the ultimate historical landmark of the movement, is rotting away, regardless of the fact that its design concepts are finally starting to be sensibly used all over the place.
yes, and 90s. thank heavens it's over, well not quite but give me Shiodome or Roppo0ngi hills anytime over the Tokyo metropolitan buildings and the like - the old metabolists lost the plot once the bubble started. there's a serious facelift going on in tokyo (and i don't mean omotesando hills etc) so all this pomo 80s 90s stuff is slowly becoming just a background layer, what's popping up is light structures and space.
do you ever, even for a brief second, feel any guilt for not really pullling your own weight in this world? For being a professional "gallery rat"? Do you ever feel guilty that you're leisuring on the back of other people's labor?
Does anybody really pull their own weight anymore? I suspect the percentage of citizens of the developed world that work in with real, physical goods is very small.
Are you a lumberjack? Do you mine? I suspect you don't. You're posting anonymous comments on livejournal. At least if you signed your name you could pull your own discursive weight.
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I'm shocked to hear that you don't sound like much of a fan of rajio taiso (brief YouTube clip here). You've written about the flight to Japan before. For me, that moment when I drop my guard and start exercising along to the video with the rest of the plane (somewhere over Khabarovsk or similar) is when I realise I'm effectively in Japan already.
Come on, Nick, itch-nee-san...
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come on I want youtube links to "naked socialist-fascist callisthenics"
something along these lines ...
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metabolism's effect in japan has really been double edged.
the kurokawa osaka sony building apparently's been renovated recently while the nakagin capsule tower, the ultimate historical landmark of the movement, is rotting away, regardless of the fact that its design concepts are finally starting to be sensibly used all over the place.
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He's also made a ton of great records. He's a professional musician. Give the guy a break.
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Are you a lumberjack? Do you mine? I suspect you don't. You're posting anonymous comments on livejournal. At least if you signed your name you could pull your own discursive weight.
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