Last day in Tokyo

shot on the last day in Tokyo....

Pig Bottom....Tokyo day care...

Taken by Jason as we walk back, uh, or stumple from the AMPM to my apartment. there is a daycare center (a loud one at that!) where they have these cartoon animal tiles on the driveway....

Grey's Anatomy...

YEAH! T.R. Knight (Dr. O'Malley) is GAY! yup just came out. AND funny enough, from the FIRST episode I ALWAYS thought he was THE cutest guy on that darn show. Not "McDreamy" or, now, "McSteamy"...YUCK. its all about Dr. George O'Malley!!!!! he, or at least his character on the show is just sooo super sweet, quirky with those puppy-dog eyes and cubby cheeks....i HOPE he doesnt do some lame ass Lance Bass bullshit and has some freakin' typical model type boyfriend!

i always wondered why no "tabloid type" TV shows, talk shows or the news NEVER focused on him, but mainly on the others....like Patrick Dempsey. enough with Dempsey already!

T.R. you are HOT!

2 days left...and

here are some images at the end of the closing reception of my exhibiton at Sora Gallery in Tokyo. it was 2 days before i had to leave...i also gave a nerve-wracking lecture with a translator, so it was a bit strange to have to speak about my work in short sentences...still thinking about wanting to live in Japan....for real! i miss ALL my peeps and just wish could live there.....someday...

a TAD of Mito, jus a bitty

AWSOME restraunts...........but a bit of a ride from Tokyo.....

DOUG

My fav/loyal collector in Japan, Shoji-san, an amazing architect, took us out for dinner at a FANTASTIC restraunt and then invited us into his home...Doug was with his trainer at Shoji's apartment. Shoji-san then invited us up to his apartment where he has a great art collection...and some amazing Prouve furniture to boot.....anyhow, it is RARE in Japan for people to invite people/"strangers" into there homes, so it was a GREAT honor. HERE is his new aquisition, Doug, named after ONE of his fav artists, Doug Aitken.....i think Doug should have been named DEAN! maybe the next one...

In Yokohama...

in Yokohama with Jason, Jeffrey and Misa.....went to the Museum, and Chinatown where we had THE BEST Chinese food!!! also visited an old Chinese temple...

Abstraction

okay, so it would take me about a half an hour or so to walk to my nearest train station.....on the way, near my last days, there was this artist who would paint overlooking the river....kinda cool i thought. i wonder now what gallery he shows with, or if he already shows. at any rate i loved his kohones to paint in Waseda let alone IN public. this was probably the closest i got to an artist "studio" throughout my stay in Japan...seriously...AND especially in Waseda! its not the most liberal/art-friendly area in Tokyo.....

FINALLY...#3

Misa, Jeffrey and Kosaku-san took me to Mito (2 hour bus ride outside of Tokyo...)...my dear friend Akira the Hustler was in a group show at the Mito Contemporary Art Center (TRY and get your hands on his book: "A Whore Diary", its AMAZING and super positive and touching..)..... along with Akira there was also work by super star painter, Hideki Kawashima (shows at Tomio Koyama), who i met at the Yokohama Museum where he had a temporary studio in the museum where he was making paintings for a solo there...VERY cool dude.

FINALLY...#2

so my gallerina hottie Sarah came on over to visit me in Tokyo, we had a great time! (we did, right Sarah?) here are images with Sarah at the Shin-Edogawa garden and at the Asakusa Temple tying her fortune to the bars, with my other hottie gallerina Elisa helping us translate our fortunes....you see there are these canisters where you shake, then you tip it over to the small opeing where a stick comes out with a number, then you go to this shelving unit where you take out your paper fortune....this was my last visit at the temple and i got the "worst" fortune (i got the "Best Fortune" on my first visit!)...there are these stations/counters in the temple where you can purchase goodluck items just in case...Elisa helped me after i FREAKED OUT! OH, also after we went to about a hundred stores to look for those Goldfish lanterns (to no avail) wanted sooooo badly we stopped for some noodles. we ended up at this small place where i could NOT stop looking at the cook! he was just so HUNKY and cute!!!! it was hard to finish my meal...i swear i was sooo wanting to take his photo. SO, again thanks to Elisa and Sarah we came up with a scenario...Elisa told him that i was a visitor and wanted to take photos of the chiefs whose quisine i really liked...the meal was decent to tell you the truth, BUTT he was so Uber Sexaaay! if you disagree, F*#k off...hehehe....okay not the BEST angle...still freakin hot

FINALLY ....

so after a month plus...i FINALLY developed 4 rolls of film, some from Japan....here area few...and i SWEAR i have lost a roll or 2...anyhow lets start out with the HOTTIE Nakata taking photos! :-)~~ A man after my own heart!

I LOVE NAKATA!!!

So as many of my Japanese friends know, Hidetoshi Nakata retired from pro soccer (pro soccer right?) AND is buying a penthouse in NY designed by Tadao Ando. He's also a VERY stylish dude....he loves his fashion (i have a pic of him with the Stephen Sprouse/LV bag, which, the only other dude i know that has one is gay). in Tokyo, during the World Cup, there would be articles on him and what designers he was wearing (well, okay the Japanese are pretty obsessed with fashion and style). Now, as you can see by my last entry, i seem to have very bad gaydar...BUT...i think it's just wishful thinking, BUT i did have a few of my Japanese friends who seemed that him being gay wasn't out of the question......but who cares, he's HOT!!!!! i love NAKATA!!! he's been photographed at A LOT of fashion shows/parties. i think its great that style.com/fashion recognizes a hottie Japanese stud. I'm just curious on how he got so super connected with the industry and is hangin' with Astrid Munoz and Anne Watanabe (well she is from Japan..)... he speaks fluent Italian, Japanese and English.....sigh

Survivor, with a twisssst...part 2: revised

DAMN! JP just got voted out...there goes my theory. hmmmm........

Survivor, with a twisssst...part 2

So all the 4 tribes were asked to drop their buffs and combine into 2 tribes, the Raro and Aitu. Brad was chosen as the first person to choose for the Raro tribe of a different race, and who does he choose FIRST....JP! yup. AND tonight, there was a shot of the the Raro tribe sleeping and a quick shot showed Brad and JP sleeping very closely next to eachother. My friend Kurt thinks that he has a feeling that Brad and JP may have and are still boyfriends...is that the twist? lets all stay tuned!

ALSO SOOOOOO glad Monique got the freakin' ANTM boot last night! hated her! AJ ROCKS!!!!