The Who came to Tokyo ! at Budokan

2008-11-19 zutaka

My first memory to have the Who is the live tour album, ‘Who’s last’, 1984. I saw that cover photo of buring the union jack and thought very cool. There is a record shop near Chiba station, where I grew up, 25 miles away from Tokyo, and that record shop sold lots of british records. Saturday afternoon, I quite often was there, and just looking for the analog records cover photos. I don’t have enough money to buy one record every week. and I couldn’t buy Who’s last, because that was double records……

After high school, I got some CD of the Who, through friends or bought one and watched the Quadrophonia.. I like the British rock in my teens, and so did my friends. I had no
friends to share the love for the british rocks in high school days,
but there were lots in college.chose Brighton for the summer English study program. I stayed one month at a member of the 10CC house, who was living there.

then, The Who came to Tokyo ! they came four years back, but it was for the festival, this is the first time for them to be here as the tour…

I went to the Monday gig at Budokan, and that was fabirous. Mr.Townsent guitar was tight and Roger’s voice was brilliant. Budokan is ten thousand capacity arena, much better expierience than Tokyo Dome that has fifty thousand capa. Stones, Bono, Bowie…the big name plays the big arena,,,, so was very lucky to see The Who’s gig at such a just-fit place. It was the first time to see live show at Budokan since Tom Petty in the mid 90’s. at that time, the clipping noise was hunging around a hole.

anyway, when the intro of Baba O’reily started, I shed tears. I couldn’t help. Baba O’Reily expierience was much more fabrious even than Stones, who is my favorite. It reminds me of the Michel Gun Elephant at Atlanta. I am not big fun of them, but I was moved the fact that Japanese rock band coming around the gig tour in the States where they have no fame. I felt their sprit of keeping move on.

The Who makes me overflowing tears, but not Stones. I guess the reason for that rely deeply on the diffrence of their rylics and music style. I like stones rock frame of the american blues and country mixture. Who is not like that, their music remains the great britain green grass hills long under the grey sky and the New Castle dizzy protest. That young straight Mods rythm beat me. Stones has rolling, but Who is shaking.

After the show, I listen the CD of Baba, but not so good as live show… nothing is better than going live show.

The audience there was relatively old gen. skewed, assumingly having waited this first who live here sinve the teenage waste land. The guy sitting nex to me surely bought a ticket from my friend at the previous show on Sunday, Saitama arena, who was supposed to come with me this night. He is totally normal salary man no one would think him of rock fun. Budokan was filled with guy in normal in daytime, but still ‘need to fight’ fire in mind. The neighbour guy got MD and recorded the live. I finger-whistled quite often so that I can recgnize in case I got the bootleg.

Nov. 17, 2008 Budokan Set list

SE: Jean Genie (Bowie)

Can’t Explain
The Seeker
Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
Fragments
Who Are You
Behind Blue Eyes
Relay
Sister Disco
Baba O’Riley
Eminence Front
5:15
Love Reign O’er Me
Won’t Get Fooled Again
My Generation
Naked Eye

Encore:
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
Sparks
See Me Feel Me
Tea and Theatre

Flower

Lotus Sumi-e Paiting

2008-10-07 zutaka 2件のコメント

Hi, there,

.Have you seen lotus before??

The lotus is really huge and elegant flower. It is tall and its leaves are big as well.
It
is until the first of August that the lotus bloom on the surface. There
are lotus full over the water on the lake in Ueno, Tokyo.
Most of
the lotus sumi-e drawing is depicted by the line. but I wanted to draw
this flower’s meteculaous shading with one stroke. work well??

tips:

the petal is reall big and round deep. You need to depict it with the ratio of front part and back part.

The pistil part would be better drawn the most black. and hairs surrounded.
here’s what I saw in the summer:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sumi-e/2…

おすすめサイト, 水墨画とは

水墨画のFlash動画できた

2008-09-30 zutaka 1件のコメント

格好よい？！浜野あゆみさん作。

おすすめサイト, 水墨画とは

水墨画　蓮

2008-09-23 zutaka コメントする

蓮の花を見る機会ってあまりないですね。お寺とか、名所も微妙に都内から離れているところ。。朝早く行かないと。。思うとなかなかいけません。

上野公園の不忍池は蓮の花観察に絶好の場所です。蓮の花と葉で、池が覆われていて、水面は見えません。冬行くのとすっかり景色が変わっていて、びっくりです。

水墨画の蓮の絵は、たいてい線描きになってます。これはつまらない・・・日本式の水墨画にグッとくるのは、一筆で濃淡と形を描くところ。彫刻が石からなにかを削り取るのと同じく、紙から一筆でなにかを削り取るところだと思います。私も蓮の絵を線描きでなく描きたいと思いました。

蓮の花、葉っぱも・・・とても大きいです。古代の風景、始祖鳥とかが舞っていた時代の植物はこんな感じかなと思います。古代の風景、厚みと大きさが紙から浮かびあがるまで・・・一番難しいのは、こちら側に向いている花びら。何回描いても完成がありません。

結局、何回も描くうちに、向こう側の花びらは、省略してしまいました。。どうでしょう。

English

Shrimp Ink Drawing

2008-06-30 zutaka

I like shrimp much as food. Shrimp soup, shrimp tempura, shrimp fried rice. It would cost more if you want to add shrimp on a normal fried rice, but I would choose to have shrimp in it.

When I was in Texas, I liked boiled chili crawfish(w/t beer), crawfish looked like shrimp, but it was the first time for me to eat crawfish.

■Tips:

Head: The brush needs to lie, and the top of brush will depict the top of head.

Body: first big later smaller

Tail: Press the hair of brush to make it flat and wipe water out of the brush a little. The hair of top flat of brush will express the notch of tail

Eye,feet: Brush must shape tight and black ink needed

Barbels: Brush -> the same as eye

English, Sumi-e Drawing Video

Bodhidharma Sumi-E　Drawing

2008-06-02 zutaka 2件のコメント

I was believing Bodhidharma was Japanese. Because I played a game called "dharma-san" a lot. This is said "tag" in my dictionary. (as always no idea for the right words) anyway, everybody knows a tag called dharma-san ga koronda. and lots of designed dharma figure coloured red are here. even I loved to have a "dharma box lunch" at Takasaki station which was on the way to the country house. It futures the dhrma face(see the link). So my image of dharma is from this box lunch and thought evry kind person like a priest in the cinema.

The real bodhidharma was not like today’s deformed one. He was very stubborn and severe. He was from India, so he got large eyes and long nose. I was surprised at Hakuin or Sesshu bodhidharma paintings because they have very severe dharma san.

Tips:

1. Front neckband is the key to draw the tradional asian figure wearing kimono style clothes. I made the hard line first which was inspired by the Hakuin’s line and Sesshu’s cave rock line.

2. First, light black (more water than usual) is on the eyebrow, then before getting dry fully, put more black stroke added. So you can get some depth, profound expression.

English, Sumi-e Drawing Video

Mount Fuji Sumi Drawing

2008-06-01 zutaka 1件のコメント

I was reading an art design article who are brushing thier clothes and she said, "I want to wear a dress drawn mountain Fuji." wow

anyway, Mt.Fuji can be seen from most of Tokyo and its surpurve like Chiba or Saitama. Since Tokyo is vegy vast flat land near the sea, I am not like seeing mountains everyday. So I don’t have any natural respect for the mountain rather than sea or river…

We can find the word "Fuji" in many Japanese. The popular TV station is called "Fuji TV", lots of "Fuji-mi", meaning "see Fuji" (Fuji-mi Zaka -> the hill where you can see mt.Fuji),… I can think our ancesters have loved mt.Fuji.

I once climbed to the top of there to see the sun rise. After two hour way, the bus arrived at the half point to the top. It was around six o’clock in the evening. a walking thru the night until midnight. The sun rise from the top was exciting view. more than that I still remember the fun jumping down walk on the back way.

Tips:

1. Draw the mountains around Mt.Fuji. Mt. Fuji from Tokyo is seen like this. These mountains locate in Hakone area where good hot springs is. To draw mountans, you need lay the brush and move side, so that the thick sumi ink on the top of the brush can depict the ridge line and can express the vague cloud hiding part

2. The angle of mountain Fuji is needed to exaggerate so that anyone can understand what you draw. Start with thin line and at the middle of the ridge, push the brush and throw it down. The shaft of the brush and the line direction goes toward the same way whereas the surrounding mountains are drawn by the side slide.

3. The shade of the hill: first light move and push, then run.

please see the video and feel free to ask about darwing sumi-E