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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

Stefano Mirti’s

facebook wall

https://www.facebook.com/stefano.mirti.3

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東京駅 (Tokyo Station)

One of the nice things of a short trip to Tokyo is to

have the chance to meet Andreas Schneider. I had

the great honor to work with him when I was theresome ten years ago. He is always busy with new

things, projects, inventions. For instance here you

have a still of the "design factors" wheel. More

about it at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/... In the next days I will reporton the work he did refurbishing his house (a quite

stunning achievement).

Schneider is always busy

doing nice things.

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有楽町 Yurakucho

Another interesting stop while exploring Tokyo, it

was the main Muji store in Yurakucho. I was very

curious to get there because I knew there is one

Muji house to see. Went there, saw the house, got

inside. Not really impressive. Not bad, but out of

Muji you would expect something truly special. Of

course if you ask Kengo Kuma to design it, most

likely you won't reach any relevant result... Boop.

Anyway, here is the link where you can get to see

more: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

I also went to visit a Muji

house. Not so bad, but also,

not so good...

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広島市

I didn't like so much this Metabolist exhibition, but

I have to say that there were several excellent

projects I never seen before. Like this one bySeiichi Shirai, a proposal for a Temple of Atomic

Catastrophe (1955). More on this at: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/...

Fantastic (Never-Built)

Hiroshima Memorial

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1965,六本木

The best thing in the Metabolist exhibition were

those cardboard stools by Riki Watanabe. Simple,

nice, perfectly working. More about Watanabethings at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

Nice Cardboard Stool, Riki

Watanabe

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上野恩賜公園

I have to admit I really like Le Corbusier. Every

time I have the chance to get in one of his building

is always a special emotion. The Western ArtMuseum in Tokyo, it makes no exception. It was

built 50 years ago, but the more it grows older the

better it becomes. Like it was some fancy French

wine.

Here the link to see some more images: http:

//www.facebook.com/media/set/…

At this other link you find more infos, drawings,

and all you need: http://architecturalmoleskine.blogspot.com/.../le...

LC always rules (even some

50 years later).

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Schneider's House

Now in Bangkok, reorganizing thoughts, ideas,

folders and the like.

Going through the images taken in Tokyo in

December. One of the nicest things we did there

was to spend a whole afternoon with Alessandro

Scandurra at Andreas' house.

He found this old house nearby the Sumida river

and he did a whole refurbishing. The final result is

one of the nicest houses I've seen in Tokyo, ever.

Boooom.

Bravo Andreas, here the link where you can see

more images of the house: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

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Shinjuku-ku, Japan

In a Tokyo trip, you can't miss a stop at the sex

shop. Japaneses are really creative and ingenious.

These Tenga eggs are a fantastic invention (onlyJaps could invent such a thing). As Karl Kraus

famously said: "Intercourse with a woman is

sometimes a satisfactory substitute for

masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to

make it work". More about Tenga eggs at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

Eggs (Indeed, Very Special

Ones)

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Chūō, Tokyo

I walk the line...

Isn't she lovely? The blue line I mean... Going

around Tokyo a lot of fashionable gals. The nice

thing of commuting around is that you have a lot

of time to look around and to get your camera at

work. More on fashionable Tokyo at: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/…

Here you have the soundtrack...: http://www.

youtube.com/watch?

v=xAC0vuL3A3c&f eature=fvwrel