Big in Japan

i am just coming out of todays seminar. you know this every wednesday meeting. professor sekiguchi gave an introduction to meditation. first he explained about papillons and the human bodz and brain. and we started to do some meditation exercises. wow never imagined that something like this is possible at a university. bravo. for some people it might sound crazy and weird, but i think sekiguchi is totally right introducing meditation to students as an opportunity to get your head free minded and to create something new or finding solutions when you are stuck.
actually it also fitted quite well into my current situation, because i am a bit worried or frustrated about my project and my output. and this also leads to some homesickness, but at the same time i feel some pressure as well because my residency will end soon.

studio 1 meetings are really in a very relaxed environment. i like it.

preparation to meditation…

the girls really need this… japan is very flat. every now and then you can find some mt fuji but other than that….

i loooove it! woooooooooooooms. so powerful. so manly. harrharr.

thank you milo for the post. also in ogaki we have a bike storage system. :-) on the south side of the station there is a house where you can put your bikes guarded by two nice men… every now and then they also put the bikes in a straight row to save some space…

1st floor of the house…. never ending bikes

2nd floor…. still never ending. sometimes it’s really hard to find a place.

on the northside of the station there is another place to put your bike. also millions of bikes. images will follow.

My family came and we had some very nice and intense time. It was so much fun to go here and there, taking the shinkansen every day, relaxing at hoshi onsen, hamamatsu beach, 21st century museum kanazawa, kyoto two times, eating good dinner and of course going to karaoke with leonie :-)

find it :-)

i think my family had a big cultural shock in tokyo. same like i had. same like everybody has i think. now they are in the plane back to austria and on one hand i wish i would be with them on the other hand i am worried to have only 3 weeks left here…

these guys were soooo funny. they were talking only in rythm – freestyle rap conversation. and some girls close to them were really impressed. hihihi

all pictures taken in a timeframe of 5 minutes and 14 seconds. amazing how many different uniforms you see. i mean i skipped all the school uniforms i saw. just the staff that i passed on the way to the metro.

uli…. do you still need a megaphon?

close to the office is a very nice area of tokyo. the first time i thought okay maybe living in tokyo is possible. i found some nice shops and caffes… somebody going to tokyo should def. look for a hotel there!!! i guess also for going out it is a good place.

hihi nice…. a beauty saloon…

hide from futurelab told me i should visit his office in tokyo, what i did. the office is in a nice district of tokyo in ikejiri – west of shibuya. well a company rented a old high school and is renting classrooms to other companies. a lot of them related to media and art.

this is hides friend taizo, who introduced me there. really nice guy. unfortunately i came late and he had to leave early so we didnt meet for sooo long, but maybe next time.

and his small office

i met shiho from lessrain she is very nice ad invited me for having a drink in the night, but i had to leave tokyo. next time in tokyo i definetly will go there again to have some more time there….