1. The driver is wearing white gloves and a surgical face mask. He looks like an extra in a bioterrorism B movie, but here it's the sartorial norm for those with colds and bad allergies. On the back of his seat, a sign informs us that our driver's hobbies are (1) baseball, (2) fishing, and (3) driving.
2. When blum & poe opened in 1994, the partners sold Cuban cigars out the back of the gallery to help make ends meet.
3. Murakami then turned the tables on the big brand by pulling it into his own oeuvre with a series of paintings that consist of nothing but the multicolor LV pattern. "the vuitton paintings are going to be important later on," declares Poe. "People just don't realize it yet. They look at them as branding and that's boring, but they're as 'superflat' as anything he's done," he says, using Murakami jargon to refer to the way the artists works flatten the distinctions between art and luxury goods, high and popular culture, East and West.
4."when people think of artists studios, they imagine Jackson Pollock dancing around a canvas"
5. Two women had laid the second and third paintings flat on a long trestle table. One sat cross-legged on the floor with her eyes two inches away from the pictures edge. She had a thin round bamboo brush in her left hand and a q-tip tucked into her hair. The other, an artist named rei sato, knelt on the floor, reaplying platinum particles. They were all wearing standard-issue brown plastic sandals and white cotton gloves with the thumbs and foreingers cut out. No one had more the a speck or two of paint on his or her clothes. They worked in silence or in their own iPod worlds. When I asked Sato of there was any room for creativity in the work, she replied, "None at all."
6. While the sega corporation has Sonic the Hedgehog and Nintendo has Super Mario, Kaikai Kiki was named after the mascots that appear on it's letterhead and cultural goods. Kaikai is an anodyne white bunny, while Kiki is a wild three-eyed pink mouse with fangs. Both characters have four ears each, a "human" pair and an "animal" pair, suggesting that the company is all ears.
7. I liked on page 193 when she is brought to the temporary merchindise showroom where she found Mika Yoshitake shuffleing through 20 items of merchandise.
8. The part where she talks about going to murakamis slick headquarters. "it was at least an hours drive, past more rice paddies and light industrial facilities, over a major river and along an elevated highway engulfed in soundproof fencing to the plush neighborhood, not far from the designer stores of roppongi hills. Once there, we ascended to the studio in an elevator. When the doors drew apart, we faced a stainless steel and glass door for which a fingerprint scam and a four digit pin number were required
9. Murakamis answer to her question about what he did not like about the American pop artist. He answers very warholian and goes on to mention and refer to warhol alot. It's interesting to see how they are very similar yet vastly different.
10. "The bomb that landed on Nagasaki was originally destined for the town where takashi's mother lived. He grew up being told, 'if kokura had not been oust that day, you would not e here.'"
11. Lastly I would like to include a few quotes from the last two pages of the chapter.
"Unfuckingbelieveable!"
"it's entertaining as fuck. So entertaining that it may backlash," says Poe. "I just hope it fits on the plane when it's crated. At the moment we've only got two inches of clearance."
"I'm happy with OVAL BUDDAH but thinking to next change. Not ambition. Really pure feeling. Instinct. Next work must be much bigger. Much complicated. That is my brain. "
2. When blum & poe opened in 1994, the partners sold Cuban cigars out the back of the gallery to help make ends meet.
3. Murakami then turned the tables on the big brand by pulling it into his own oeuvre with a series of paintings that consist of nothing but the multicolor LV pattern. "the vuitton paintings are going to be important later on," declares Poe. "People just don't realize it yet. They look at them as branding and that's boring, but they're as 'superflat' as anything he's done," he says, using Murakami jargon to refer to the way the artists works flatten the distinctions between art and luxury goods, high and popular culture, East and West.
4."when people think of artists studios, they imagine Jackson Pollock dancing around a canvas"
5. Two women had laid the second and third paintings flat on a long trestle table. One sat cross-legged on the floor with her eyes two inches away from the pictures edge. She had a thin round bamboo brush in her left hand and a q-tip tucked into her hair. The other, an artist named rei sato, knelt on the floor, reaplying platinum particles. They were all wearing standard-issue brown plastic sandals and white cotton gloves with the thumbs and foreingers cut out. No one had more the a speck or two of paint on his or her clothes. They worked in silence or in their own iPod worlds. When I asked Sato of there was any room for creativity in the work, she replied, "None at all."
6. While the sega corporation has Sonic the Hedgehog and Nintendo has Super Mario, Kaikai Kiki was named after the mascots that appear on it's letterhead and cultural goods. Kaikai is an anodyne white bunny, while Kiki is a wild three-eyed pink mouse with fangs. Both characters have four ears each, a "human" pair and an "animal" pair, suggesting that the company is all ears.
7. I liked on page 193 when she is brought to the temporary merchindise showroom where she found Mika Yoshitake shuffleing through 20 items of merchandise.
8. The part where she talks about going to murakamis slick headquarters. "it was at least an hours drive, past more rice paddies and light industrial facilities, over a major river and along an elevated highway engulfed in soundproof fencing to the plush neighborhood, not far from the designer stores of roppongi hills. Once there, we ascended to the studio in an elevator. When the doors drew apart, we faced a stainless steel and glass door for which a fingerprint scam and a four digit pin number were required
9. Murakamis answer to her question about what he did not like about the American pop artist. He answers very warholian and goes on to mention and refer to warhol alot. It's interesting to see how they are very similar yet vastly different.
10. "The bomb that landed on Nagasaki was originally destined for the town where takashi's mother lived. He grew up being told, 'if kokura had not been oust that day, you would not e here.'"
11. Lastly I would like to include a few quotes from the last two pages of the chapter.
"Unfuckingbelieveable!"
"it's entertaining as fuck. So entertaining that it may backlash," says Poe. "I just hope it fits on the plane when it's crated. At the moment we've only got two inches of clearance."
"I'm happy with OVAL BUDDAH but thinking to next change. Not ambition. Really pure feeling. Instinct. Next work must be much bigger. Much complicated. That is my brain. "
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