APARTMENT LIFE BY MIEKE VERBIJLEN

APARTMENT LIFE BY MIEKE VERBIJLEN

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

All above photos copyright mieke verbijlen. Used with her permission.

Some of the first images I saw this morning were Mieke's photographs that have been newly added to her website. I am so inspired by her work and feel so happy to be able to start a day feeling like this. Love how Mieke captures moments and lights in her friends' apartments, how she captures "real life" through her lens. Thank you Mieke for the inspiration, as always!

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今日は朝からmiekeの写真にたくさんニンマリさせられ、インスピレーションをもらいました。mieke verbijlenはベルギーのアントワープで活躍する若いフォトグラファー。友達のアパートを撮影した彼女の写真シリーズが私は大好きです。「ありのまま」の生活と空間を切りとった彼女の写真は、やさしくあたたかくシュール、そしてウィットに富んでいて見るもののの心をぐっと掴むのですね。ちょっと散らかったデスクや、山積みになった洗濯物さえ絵になってしまうって、いいなあ。
mieke verbijlen

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HANNA TŌ JUKKA

HANNA TŌ JUKKA

Saturday, 4 August 2012

One afternoon during the rainy season, I had the pleasure of meeting the lovely Hanna and Jukka from Finland.
I had known Hanna from this exhibition I went to 2 years ago at biotope (it was in Gakugeidaigaku then but now moved) which Hanna had with another amazing illustrator Hana Akiyama called "Hana to Hanna". Though I didn't get to meet Hanna then, I had been a fan of her works since so I was very happy to meet up with her and Jukka whom we'd known each other on instagram! We had a nice lunch at my favourite cafe ikanika.

Hanna brought me a treat from Finland, the cute packaged lollies AND one of her gorgeous prints AND a set of beautiful post cards!! How lucky am I??? If you are in Japan you can now buy her post cards from Gallerie Doux Dimanche in Aoyama or in Jiyugaoka or from their online shop here so please check it out!
I had also bought this sweet tea towel of Hanna's from NAPA books, which I LOVE!

Kiitos Hanna and Jukka :-)


P.S. You may have noticed but I have a "new face" for my blog now (as well as for my shop blog) :) Also I now have a facebook page where I share what I hope to be useful information on Tokyo, about shops, cafes and exhibitions etc., so please join me here also! Arigato :)

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Mogu Takahashi Exhibitions

Mogu Takahashi Exhibitions

Monday, 22 August 2011

I received such a lovely surprise in the mail earlier this month. It was from a cute talented artist Mogu Takahashi, along with the invitations for her up coming 2 solo exhibitions in Tokyo she included a very special little gift - the sweetest handmade clay tag that has my shop name on it!!!! Now it's my shop sign, sooooooo cute isn't it??

One of Mogu-chan's exhibitions is starting tomorrow, at a sweet Nakameguro cafe drol. And another one will be at the galerie doux dimanche in Aoyama starting from 30th August. So if you will be in Tokyo in the next few weeks, be sure to check her cutest world in real life! And the Omotesando Koffee which I blogged about in the last post is really close from the doux dimanche so you can visit the 2 in the same day :)

Mogu-chan apparently caught a terrible cold on the day before her exhibition starts, but I really hope she will be better real soon by tomorrow!! がんばってもぐちゃん！！

And this is her new product she also sent to me - note cards with her cute camera illustration! (which I think is going to be added to her online shop soon?)

Mogu Takahashi Solo Exhibition "KAWAII UGLY - SAN"
23rd August − 12th September
12:00 - 20:00 (L.O 19:30)
at Cafe drole * about 5 min from Nakameguro ( the 2nd station from Shibuya)

Mogu Takahashi Solo Exhibition "MUZU MUZU ZUKO - SHITSU"
30th August − 11th September
12:00 - 20:00 (close: Monday)
Opening: Friday 2nd Sep, 18:00 --
at Galerie Doux Dimanche

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Thursday.

Thursday.

Thursday, 28 April 2011

Sunny and Summery Thursday with Hello Sandwich having a nice lunch at favourite cafe, buying charity artwork, lovely walk with non-stop instagraming, working together back at my apartment. Such a jolly afternoon it was.

The artwork I bought is by a Swiss artist called Mirjam Joss. I googled her name but not much was found. Does anyone know anything about her? I want to tell her that I really love what I got.

Also bought some help japan badges from the cafe ohanaya (they do a couple of charity drinks too), and some help japan project post cards from gellerie doux dimanche by SOLEDAD and AT-SWIM-TWO-BIRDS (her original artwork was also exhibited and it was so beautiful! wish i could afford it......)!!!

You can see all the artworks that were donated from all over the world here!

I hope everyone's Thursday has been and will be lovely too!
And Happy Golden Week to those who are in Japan :)

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ROLLS TOHOKU

ROLLS TOHOKU

Friday, 15 April 2011

All images are from ROLLS TOHOKU.

I'm sure many of you have seen enough devastating imagery of the Tohoku disaster and I never meant to post any sad images here. But these, I simply could not help sharing. These are all taken by the people in the worst damaged areas, mostly by children who have lost their houses and their possessions. These are from their everyday life, a few weeks after the disaster.

A Japanese photographer Aichi Hirano went into the earthquake & tsunami-hit areas around Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture carrying lots of instant cameras with him. He handed the cameras to the people in the evacuation centres and asked them to photograph what they see, what they want to record or remember, people around them, the ones they love, or just anything they want to photograph. And he asked them to enjoy it as much as they can.

ROLLS TOHOKU 3/31 - 4/3 is the project Hirano set up, to showcase photographs of the disaster-stricken areas by the victims themselves to tell the world what's really there and the people's thoughts and views other than what have been brought to us through media hoping that people who thought and felt something from seeing these photographs will act to help for the recovery in the way and through what they can/want/believe, and most importantly "to continue doing it for as long as possible".

Most faces seen in the ROLLS TOHOKU are with smiles. They are not the sad photographs but are filled with lights of hope.
All so amazingly beautiful.

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