A Happy New Year 2012! designs

Happy New Year to all of my friends and acquaintances!
I hope to have a good coming year for you all and to myself for next year!!

I used royalty free CD images and my photo that I took in my area in Osaka Japan.

Kitakagaya Osaka Japan 北加賀屋周辺アートスポット

2011年、10月26日。
北加賀屋周辺にアートスポットがあると聞いたので散歩がてら行ってみた。
工場が沢山あって大きなトラックがたくさん通っていた。
駅から海の方？へ歩いて行った。大阪マラソン前でマラソンコースだと言う看板が出ていた。
少し歩くと、気になっていた、Air 大阪があった。
アカマルシェの時に市内に泊まりたかったので宿泊施設を見ておきたかった。
なんか思っていたのと違ったが、（もっと路地裏にあると思っていた）いい感じだった。
人気がなかったのでノックするのをためらって遠目で写真を撮っただけだった。
う〜ん、でもなんか周辺に遊ぶ所も知り合いも食べる所もわからなかったので、結局あかマルシェの時はいつもの西成に泊まった。

Creative Centerの場所を探した。
場所はわかったが、中からトラックが出て来て、「関係者以外立ち入り禁止」という看板があったので、入っていいかわからなかった。（後で某ぶらり歩き番組も入っていたので、やっぱり勇気を出して入ってみたらいいと、思った。）
結局そとの壁画の写真だけ撮った。

帰りに近くの公園を通ったら、平日なのに草野球らしいグループが昼間から野球をしていた。この街はのんびりしているのか、工場で忙しいのか？そんな感じの場所だった。

そういえば、地下鉄の構内の雰囲気も通路が長くてなんか変だったな。。。
（敏感に感じてしまうので。。）
たまには違う雰囲気の場所に行くのもいいが。。。汗;

AIR Osaka guest house for artists

Sometime I take Alfred Stieglitz like architecture photo.

The place used to be shipyard and now storehouse and NPO art/music spaces.

Fiseta Mexicana in Osaka フィエスタメヒカナ 11_09_17

Fiesta Mexicana in Osaka Japan
It was on 9/17 and vendors and dance, and music and cerebration of Independence with a consul of Mexico from Tokyo. He is new and just arrived from Mexico.
Everybody said, Viva Mexico!! and we (me and my friend) followed...
I was surprised that there are many Mexican citizen living in Kansai area.

We ate Mexican food, but it was raining sometime so we had to stand up and stayed under the building.

Beer vendor

Tacos El Nopal at Zyuso Osaka 十三

Also Mexican good shop from Honmachi Osaka
I went to the actual store.

Big corona baloon

Pinata was cancelled cause by rain, but kids got candies.

A huge Sol balloon!!

That the stool we were sitting...

Marimba Mexican style

She was not a show, but she was one on the visitor, but could not stand dancing with the music. lol

Here is Mr. new Mexican consul reading a greet for Dia de Independencia
Viva Mexico!!

Kyoto Museum11_08_09 京都国立近代美術館、モホイ＝ナジ イン・モーション展

I went to Kyoto contemporary museum.

http://www.momak.go.jp/Japanese/exhibitionArchive/2011/387.html

It was very hot day and I had to stop at the convenience store and eat ice cream. Many tourists were doing the same thing, because there were nice Japanese style benches with a large parasol.
The show was good, but the distance from my house was very far.

Kyoto Tower from Kyoto Station

Heian Jingu shrine torii in the middle of the road.

Reflection of the trii

Trii behind a tree.

design of the Kyoto museum

Furuichi walk あみま古市ウォーク 7/10/2011

I was walking around historic road from Furuichi Kintetsu line station to Fujidera station. It was very hot summer time on July 10th, and I was sweating and drinking a lot of water. I haven been around, but I never walked around this places.

Hakutyou shrine near Furuichi station.

I crossed the signal to Konda Hachiman shrine.

Higashi koya kaidou, old pilgrimage road south east part of Osaka toward Koyasan mountain.

An entrance of Konda Hachiman shrine.

A phoenix is a symbolic animal derived from Chinese myth.

Another monument for East Koya Kaidou road signs. These stones are also from the ancient time.

Otoritsuka Kofun berial mound from about 6 century. 

もじゃハウス！
I love ivy covered houses and buildings!

Old lanterns. It was hard to take photos, because they were at private housing area. I guess it used to be a part of the shrine before.

I liked the rusted sign...

Ok, so there are many sign, car no enter sign, crossing signal, and causion sign and the road sign.  So which sign you will see first?!

I wish I had a gut to ask there why they have the huge bowling pin... I should be some factory.

I took a break at the old emperor Yuryaku grave, sitting down and drinking water. Some local woman was looking who the hell hanging around. It a purely local oriented area, no tourists or not many people around, so they feel insecure.

A little path goes under the railway. So did they make railway first or the path?!

This monument is representing that they used to have a Fujidera baseball stadium near Fujidera station. Right now the team has changed their name and own home stadium at different place. This area has become a university campus.