Yesterday we concurred that we’d both love a bowl of udon as our big meal of the day. We sat in comfy chairs in the National Art Center and googled for udon restaurants in the area. TsuruTonTan popped up and was only an 11 minute walk away. Google maps led us to the location and…
Day: April 30, 2025
Nice idea if you could afford it
Part of the Rippongi Art Triangle, a twelve minute walk from the Mori Art Museum, is The National Art Center in Tokyo. The big exhibit was “Living Modernity” which featured models of houses built by 20th century architects that were the fantasies which, when built, changed the ideal structure of the home environment. Functional, linear, and…
Robotic security
At the National Art Center, this robot rolled along, stopping as it passed people to wink its lights. Maybe take a sniff looking for illegal substances or weapons. Its head swiveled continuously and I suppose it was producing a continuous live stream feed to whomever was monitoring the cameras. Or, maybe it had no need for…
Machine Love
Our first foray into the gigaplex that is Tokyo was for the Mori Art Museum located on the 53rd floor of the Mori building in the Roppongi neighborhood. We realized today that in Tokyo, we had to be a little more clever with Google maps. Or maybe Google maps needs to get more clever. Tokyo…
Digital dreams
I don’t know if anyone has had the chance to catch the third episode of the 7th season of Black Mirror (“Hotel Reverie”) where the digital world merges with the real world in a remake of a movie, but that is sort of what the theme was to “Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary…