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At the weekend I went to the National Museum of Art in Osaka to see an exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto entitled “The History of History“. If you’re interested this is what the museum looks like (I don’t know why it has rabbit ears):
And here is a close up entitled “Girl Eating a Sandwich”.
But anyway, back [...]

There’s a fresh post up on Deep Kyoto tonight of tasty cafe & bakery Le Petit Mec.  I’ll be posting something else French a little further down too, but for now here’s a picture of a Japanese otaku as drawn by one of my 1st year girls last week:

I guess お宅 (otaku) is usually translated [...]

Today on Deep Kyoto, there is a fresh post on the delightful Shizuku cafe.
I just spent the day traipsing round town looking for a new sofa bed, failing to find one, getting frustrated by the dawdling crowds (why does everyone but me dawdle?) and upon going home ordering this little beauty from amazon.co.jp instead. Praise [...]

Mikey Lambe’s Liver is Saved
My very favoritest bar in the whole wide world, Small Town Talk, is closing down this Saturday. Devastated. However, on a brighter note it does perhaps mean that we won’t be afflicted with sights like this anymore:

I actually have a short video of Masuda dancing and shaking his meat and two [...]

There’s a fresh review up on Deep Kyoto tonight of my very very 一番好きな favoritest bar in the whole wide world: Small Town Talk. There’s a very high possibility that it will close before the end of the year so enjoy it while you can.
Here’s a short reminder from Mario Alfonso about next week’s event [...]

Waiting for my friend last night, and having nothing better to do, I rooted through my bag and pulled out this little pocket sized book of words and pictures 嘘をつけばよかった by local artist Ashida Mellow and the poet Esu Toyohara.
I picked this up in Neutron Cafe last weekend on the same friend’s recommendation. Now [...]

I picked up a little book of postcards in Neutron Cafe last Sunday. They are by local artist Mellow Ashida and wordsmith Esu Toyohara and this one in particular took my fancy:

馬鹿とピュアは – 違う

Stupidity and innocence – are not the same thing

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I popped by Florent Maussion’s exhibition at the Yamaso Art Gallery in Higashiyama today. Wow! He’s really good. I’m not sure what impressed me more, the paintings or the prices! Florent is an artist who spends half his time in France and half in Kyoto. I’d like to say he’s a friend but we don’t [...]

There’s a cafe/art gallery called りほう not two minutes walk from my house, that does very good coffee and we went there today and had a look at the latest exhibition: 植物と硝子と – “With Greenery, With Glass”. Here are some pictures. I like how these pieces work with the lighting and shadows and how the [...]

These are a couple of photos I took today, which I’m not entirely satisfied with, but I think you can see what I’m stretching for…

Lovely day today. Perfect weather for a picnic in a park and kicking a ball around. So we went to an art exhibition. But we had good reason. It was [...]