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3/17/11

COMPACT AID! -The Charity Auction for the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Japan

Hello All

I would like to have a charity auction for the recent and ongoing disaster in Japan.
It was and continues to be a truly horrifying disaster–really sad & scary. The Tohoku region, and even Tokyo continues to sway from residual quakes.

I have been feeling as if I can't do anything to help out here in Tokyo. I’ve been limited to watching the news and looking at Twitter and Facebook for news updates. In all honesty, this is too much disaster for me.

Prayers and thoughts are good, but to directly help the disaster areas, I think cash donations will work best and I need your help.

During the worst of the earthquake and for two days afterwards, neither cell phones nor landlines worked, leaving many to rely on the Internet and smart phones, which were most helpful for using Twitter to communicate...

So, for this charity auction, we will be selling 'wallpapers' for computers and cell phones rather than traditional fine art media.

We will hold the auction at Cultivate, where my illustration exhibition is being shown.
An additional auction will be held on the Cultivate website after the live event with new images.

Auction will start at 3:00pm on March 19th, 2011 at Cultivate in Tokyo.

Also, will be Ustream on the here< http://bit.ly/vincentradioust >
support by Vincent Radio

I sincerely hope you can make it!

Thank you!

x

participant:

Hanayo/ Tenko/Aki Goto/Nick Relph/Brian Degraw (GANG GANG DANCE)/Zoren Gold & Minori (MI-ZO)/Tomoo Gokita/ Hitoshi Odajima/ Kentaro Minoura/ Shintaro Sakamoto (ex.Yura Yura Teikoku)/Will Sweeney (ZONGAMIN)/Susumu Mukai (ZONGAMIN)/LET DOWN

All proceeds will be donated to the Japan Red Cross Society
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/index.html

6/30/10

Michael Clark Dance Troupe with the Fall

2/11/10

Antony and the Ohnos

We went to go see the Antony & the Ohnos performance at Sogetsu Hall last night.

My expectations were pretty high. The convergence of Antony; the butoh dancers Kazuo Ohno (who is 103-years-old and only appeared in video form) and his son Yoshito Ohno; and Sogetsu Hall, where some of the most important avant-garde artists of the 1960s, including Yoko Ono, Takehisa Kosugi, Teiji Ito, Merce Cunningham and John Cage have performed, sounded like a once in a lifetime event.

Our seats were on the stage, behind the piano, which meant we didn't see the show as it was meant to be seen. Instead, we were treated to what I thought were moments of intense intimacy, afforded by our proximity to the performers. I watched Antony as he smilingly watched the projected images of Kazuo Ohno sucking on a pig's nipple. I also saw quivers in Yoshito Ohno's body and how he continued to dance off stage, out of the audience's sight.

By the time Antony performed "Hope There's Someone" as his encore, I was nearly in tears.