Art & Cars

DESIGN WEEK AND MOTOR SHOW

Dave only had a couple of weeks left in Japan, and we were struggling with no income but we stil wanted to hang out with him as much as possible. Dave, Sophi and Cam went to the Tokyo Design Week on Thursday in Aoyama Ichhome where there were displays from about 50 different designers from all around the world, there were loads of exhibits from Scandanavian people, as there seems to always be these days. There was some amazing stuff there, and some strange things also. There was another section to the exhibition, which was dedicated to people who were selling their items, some things were very cool.

A chandelier made from shoes and toys and who-knows-what else!

Can you read it?

Trendy telephone bags

On Friday Dave and Cam made their way to the Tokyo Motor Show at Makuhari Messe, in Chiba. It was the 40^th Anniversary so we were expecting big things, and I have to say that they did not disappoint. There were 3 huge buildings the size of the Horden Pavillion just for the sedans, then they had another huge building for motor-cycles and utility vehicles, and finally another huge building for simulators and people to explain what everything was. I was so big that we couldn't even get around to see it all in one day. Japanese car makers are at the top of their game, but I have to say, some of the designs for the new hybrid eco-friendly cars are absolute crap. (See below for proof of this claim!)

Awesome new Suzuki road bike

This was the sickest car at the show by far, the new Mazda (it will never hit the streets though)

They have really life-like manequins in Tokyo

Nice, a 14 year girl strutting her stuff (apparently she is promoting the car!)

The Tokyo Show shits on the Sydney one. It is, without exageration, about 10 times as large and I think they get around 100000 people through every day for 2 weeks.

Ute of the future

Crap eco-friendly designed cars (and a bus to carry them around in)

Have no idea what this is

Apart from that, we have been really busy at our new jobs, and only taking off 1 day a week, and it not a weekend, so there is not much time for much else. It is also starting to get quite cold here, so we are preparing ourselves for the winter ahead by eating lots of McDonalds to get our fat stores up.