30 seconds of Tokyo

We had such a good time. I made like 2000 photo's. I should've made more movieclips, because this hardly gives a good impression of Tokyo. But I made and posted the clip anyway, because you can't be at the office spending 2 hours on a clip and NOT post it. So here goes. And by the way, yes something is wrong with the size of the screen. Whatever. I'm not a film maker. I just like to post stuff.

Thank you Michiko!

Jeez. We had a really really really great time in Tokamachi. Really. After we slept off our hangover we visited some amazing artworks of the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennal. We went to a spa where I really relaxed, a long with like 40 other asian brothers from a lot of other mothers. At least people know who MO - RO is now. We had Korean BBQ dinner with the lovely Michiko, who was our guiding light the past couple of days. The energy and time she put in. The amount of patience she mustered. Arigato gosai mas, TANAKA san! And now people are still not asleep. Tomorrow we're off to Tokyo. LET's GO!

Warning

This is a slideshow containing 348 photo's. We had a great time rehearsing, hanging out, jamming, performing and partying. These are just my pics. We made like 1000 that day, because this day killed! I really can't say too much about it, because it was amazing in many different ways. I mean:

- this one guy worked three weeks on the stage
- only to see his creation washed away in the most heavy rain in ages
- the festival was planned on the last day of the rain season, so I guess rain felt like shining one more time
- Caprice, Rianne, Moro, Michael, TooTall, Gina, Kid Sublime, Guitar man, Cuban-Japanese girl jammed till the sun broke through... MAGIC
- twenty very VERY stoked dancers working it
- people crawling over the floor because of that one drink too much
- the traditional tea ceremony and the geisha girls confessing they preferred beer and sake
- and...
- and...

Day Three

Here's a belated peek at our activities for day three. Most of us can't sleep at night due to different time zones, so day three started off kind of slow. I woke up at 2 pm and I was an early bird, if you get what I'm saying. But from then on we did a lot of stuff. We filmed some intro-shots in kimono's (or at least we'd like to think the hotel bath robes we kind of stole are kimono's). We had dinner at a really good Ramen place. Caprice did a workshop with four local artists which was cool. Then we were off to the festival site, where we rehearsed with the dancers. Here goes:

Sweet

So yesterday we met up with the SHISHEI dancers. SHISHEI is actually the name of this group's sensei. The dancers have been working hard on their dances to our songs. This is the first time the two of those came together. This is like the raw basics. In the next couple of days this will be smoothed out for the show. Though it looks pretty cool to me already.

Tijd en energie

Kijk. Dat bedoel ik nou. Een nieuwe workshopmaster die er zin in heeft. Jawel, we hebben een nieuwe workshop en een nieuwe workshopmaster. Check dit: je kunt nu leren columns schrijven. Niet meteen afhaken nu, hear me out. Schijnt dat je met het schrijven over je eigen dingen gewoon geld kan maken. Columns schrijven doet. En James Worthy is de MVP op dat gebied. Ik zeg het nog een keer: check dit.

Rock n Roll

Dan dan domo! There you go: 12 hour flight, 5 hour bus ride, beer, sake and a party in 24 hours without breaking a sweat. No that's a lie. I sweated a lot, especially during the turbulence in the air. But: we made it over Siberia safe and sound. We even had our first party, which was very cool. Traditional dance and song. A lot of cool people. I don't know how rock n rollers live their life, but my guess it feels kind of like today.

Putting in work!

I wanted to keep you guys posted about the progress we're making. Look at these guys. They're putting in work! Sweating even! Keep that up. And for all of you in Amsterdam: Come and see our show sunday 26th at 15.00 in the Vondelpark Openluchttheater. It's gonna be good!

And look, I've discovered all these fancy video-transitions and fades. So corny, but I couldn't resist using them!

the Movement Movement

Dude, ik zie dat ik gewoon nul foto's/filmpjes heb gepost van de Movement Movement. Wachteffe dan. Een van die groepen die optrad was ENERG!C. En die dames waren tof!

Off the Wall

Menno is een aardige gast die bij ons de workshop VJ'ing doet. Zelf is hij DVDJ bij Off the Wall. Heel toepasselijk hadden ze afgelopen vrijdag een MJ Tribute in Paradiso. Ik vroeg: "was dat tof?" Hij zei: "we hadden een kippenvelmomentje toen we 'we are the world' opzetten", maar je kunt dat checken op youtube. Ok. Check dat hiero.