A lazy sunday in Tokyo.

This blog post was writen yesterday, Sunday the 11th of November:

Today I went to the Tokyo Design Festa -vol 36. It was held in the Tokyo Big Sight out in Odaiba, the human made island in Tokyo bay. The history of Odaiba starts in 1853 when six fortres islands were built in Tokyo bay in direct response to Commodore Perry's gunboat diplomacy and the threat to Tokyo from attack by ship. In the 1980's the islands were joined together by creating more human made islands between them. It hosts a bunch of bold architecture from the 90's  including the Fuji TV Center - which looks like it has been made out to  meccano, the Telecom Centre. Also the museum of marintine science which is very literal design and is built as a large six story cruse liner and the Tokyo Big Sight - Tokyo's largest exhibition and convention centre. The Design Festa hosts 10,000 Stalls, it was like 200 Rose street markets side by side. On top of the stalls there was live music and dance performances as well as  a catwalk. Some artist had even got a wall to paint or draw on over the two day event and continued to add to the pieces over the weekend. A fair share of the people how attended the fiesta were dressed up to some extent. At the lower end you had people wearing near normal cloths but  hosting bunny ears or a fake zombie bite on their neck. At the other end of the specrum you had women dressed up in doles clothing ranging from pink a frilly to goth with black lace. Men dresses as samurai or wearing suits with top or bola hats, even a man dressed up as a panda bear with SMD suit on. My favourite was the stem punk costumes expeshaly the ones that incorporated kimonos with steam punk, very cool indeed. 

I was going to spend the afternoon exploring other parts of Odaiba but the rain and cold made it an unpleasant experience. Instead I slowly made my way back to Azabujuban with a detour to a cozy cafe to read a book and write the last of my post cards. The post cards are very unlikely to get to Australia before I do but they have been sent non the less. Keir and I spent the evening chatting while he did work and I went to the laundry mat to do washing a sat down to write this post.