I’d been wanted to go see this exhibition by Olafur Eliasson entitled “Take Your Time” at MoMa and P.S.1 and I finally did go see it at MoMa. (I couldn’t go to P.S. 1 and it just ended today…)

It was so interesting – the illusion and the lights and everything in between. You think you would be blind after seeing some of the work because it is just so intense (and cool!) to your eyes, but I was surprised that my eyes were just fine right away.

You can see most of the work from its website, but this exhibition was more like “experience” so you have to be there to really “see” and “feel” the work. It was an awesome exhibition!

Yellow room – everything was yellow, everything was monochrome.

There was a big line…

To see this walls of mirrors installation and you see infinity reflection:

This room was foggy and you see lights creating a cube – was so beautiful:

This wall was creating a reflective, kaleidoscopic effect:

I just couldn’t take pictures of every installations, some were just hard to capture, but I enjoyed it very much!

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It was the cutest movie I’ve seen this year for sure! I loved it – the animation is amazing as you can imagine. It was sooo cute.

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In Okinawa, we rented a private house called “Gushichin” – we drove north for 1.5 to 2 hours from Naha city.

You can see a beach from the property:

Okinawa roof top:

A handmade Seasir (I think):

The backyard – we wanted to BBQ, but the weather didn’t let us…

Papaya tree in the backyard – We cooked it later and it was good:

We took a walk to the beach…

Tropical flowers, of course:

The Gushiken Beach:

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I like these new mugs by Jonathan Adler Utopia series – they are so cute and so affordable!

utopia king/queen mug:

utopia lord/lady mug:

utopia ray/dawn mug:

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You can find Ryukyu Glass everywhere in Okinawa – they are absolutely beautiful hand-blown glasses. There are a lot of places that offer hand-blown experience and you can make your own glass art, and this place we stopped by had one, too, but it was closed when we got there… so just shopped around the store. So pretty!

There are lots of glass creatures – these are the glass seasirs:

They had a lot of different seasirs, too:

These heart ones are so lovely:

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There is a meat and seafood market area (Ichiba) in the arcade from Kokusai Dori in Okinawa and it is just fun looking around everything. You can actually buy seafood and they’ll make sashimi or they’ll cook it and you can eat it right away in upstairs. We tried Ise Ebi and all sorts of fishes (including the blue one!) as sashimi!

They are alive:

How pretty:

Upstairs 1:

Upstairs 2:

Our sashimi boat:

Seaweed soup:

OK, Okinawa people eat so much pork and there was a whole meat market here, too, but after seeing this… we weren’t sure if we wanted to go that way:

They love pork.

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I kept mentioning about it, but I am finally ready to share my trip and here it goes – Okinawa was such a special place! Yes, it is in Japan, but it’s not Japan. It’s so different, they have their own culture, own local food and drink, and their own language. I have never been such places like Okinawa. So special I loved it there so much!!

Naha Airport – “Menso-re Okinawa” (Welcome to Okinawa)

There is a big aquarium tank at the airport:

Street views:

The place we stayed for the first night “Usumiji”:

Kokusai Dori (main street) – lots of stores in this street including tourist stuff, too, of course.

Seasir – they are everywhere in Okinawa, they protect you from bad.

Okinawa Habu-shu!! (Snake liquor)

There are cute stuff, too:

One of few arcades on Kokusai Dori – it’s awesome. They kept the old Japan/Okinawa here:

Sata-andagi – so good!:

Pink treats! (Machikaji):

Fresh produce on the street:

Randomly hanged up snake:

Katsuobushi – Dried bonito place:

To be continued… (it gets better!)

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I get inspired by fonts a lot and tonight was no exception. Just wanted to post about Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ) at typography.com because their site is really great to look at – you can see and learn about fonts, find the fonts, buy the fonts… I especially like the features they have.

“Gotham” page, for example, they have the font’s overview with designs by using the fonts:

(I like the color usage, too)

You can learn about the history (if the font has any):

and you can “test drive” it:

and they have a blog about fonts, too!

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One of my best friends, Linko has designed and built a new loft home with her fiancé by rearranging her parents’ building and they made it so cool that I had to post some photos here. Made me want to own a house! Well, before that, I have to finish up our apartment here… inspired me to finish up for sure!

Bathroom:

Bedroom 1:

Bedroom 2:

Stairs to go to living and dining room:

The wall shelf:

Dining and Living room:

Dining area:

Another view:

Cool plates on the wall:

Side wall space:

One of my favorite parts of her place; there is a river right next to her room!

Kobe Rokko — beautiful at night time:

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I found this artist while I was shopping in Okinawa (I still have so many pictures from Okinawa to post!), her name is Yukino Shimai, she goes by pokke 104 – she is an amazing illustrator, I love her work so much!! I should have grabbed her post cards… but I didn’t… shame on me.

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