Before I take off for the weekend I just wanted to welcome Modernica as a new sponsor to Spoon & Tamago. They have a great website that is chock-full of droolworthy furniture. They even offer direct shipping to Japan! Click on the link to the right to get free tax & shipping!

All right, that’s it, I’ve seen it all. Just watch the video. You will be thoroughly entertained. You would think a nation with such kinky fetishes would have a much higher birth rate.

And still trying to figure out what you’re doing today? Head over to the Highline Ballroom on 16th Street (Manhattan) for the Air Sex World Championships!

Have a splendid weekend!

(thanks Albert)

A nice shot of a work by the Gutai Group at the Venice Biennale, courtesy of the New York Times. Gutai was a post-war art movement that originated in the 1950s. In that sense they share a lot of characteristics with the Butoh dance movement. The prevalent theme encompassing Gutai is the beauty of decay, as well as the process of destruction.

The sandbox is such as artifact of the past. Growing up in Tokyo I remember spending many hours with my Dad playing in the sand. I remember the gravity of the sand, the warmth – and subsequent chill – of the sand as well as the devastating effects a bucket of water can have on a exquisitely built sand castle.