Wish they all could be Cafe Soso girls

[imomus]

Yuki Murakami's photos of girls in the Cafe Soso, Sapporo, Hokkaido, posted on the Shift Magazine site, are much more inspiring than anything to be seen on the streets of Tokyo right now, or at least the photos on Tokyo Street Style.



This is probably because of Yuki's eye, and the fact that Cafe Soso is a highly targeted place, a magnet for people interested in visual creativity. Apart from being a great cafe with great music, it's also a bookshop, a design magazine and a lending library specialised in art, architecture and design.



I also find the Cafe Soso girls much nicer looking and nicer looking than the snooty, furry, tailored, high-heeled, over-made-up models currently to be seen at London Fashion Week. You know, how many animals died for you and just how bored are you to be here?

Comments

[klasensjo.livejournal.com]

Never heard anything about your lecture yesterday. I can just see the japanese students looking at each other afterwards: "Gee, got to get a Ph.D. in this. Ariel Pink is good fun and so is professor Momus..."

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I didn't play the Ariel Pink video, I just talked about Cage, Eno, Off Site, Oblaat, Varese, Duchamp, Brecht, Shklovsky. And I sang one of my songs, 'Multiplying Love', and analysed another, 'Oskar Tennis Champion', explaining that the background sounds were recorded by artist Momoyo Toremitsu in workshops in Sumida. It then devolved into a discussion of Max/MSP. One of the students had made his own object-oriented music program and was thinking of using Max instead because his wasn't good enough.