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Funny People Seen at Hyper Japan Fair, London

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Funny people seen around the Hyper Japan fair, London Tobacco Dock Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

IPPUDO Ramen Japanese Restaurant in Canary Wharf

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This restaurant serves some excellent "ramen" and other very good Japanese dishes. Service is very good and prompt. When we visited we started having a very good impression from the first second. It was full of Japanese and other Asian guests. This is a very good sign. Should you enter an Italian restaurant, for example, and see around not a single Italian or South European, then it would be a good idea to leave before ordering anything. My ramen with an extra poached egg was superlative. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 And here is the copy of the bill:

Psychotic Window by Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton

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Here are some photos of the windows displayed  in September and October 2012  in various cities  by shops selling Louis Vuitton products.  In my humble opinion, these windows are psychotic, packed full of sexual references and plainly pornographic, but  they are also interesting to watch. If the tentacles above and the colourful flowers below are not strong references to the male and female sexual organs, then I do not know what they are.  It also seems t he red colour everywhere  can be nothing else but blood. The designer of all these mess was Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese "Pop" artist. Some references can be found at these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/index.html http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/YayoiKusama The obsession for representing her own image among tentacles and other very easy to decrypt sexual references is found elsewhere in many works by this artist ...