Held each year, anyone can take part and exhibit, perform and sell as long as the work is original.
I spent a blissful afternoon wandering the stalls laden with the fruit of other people's creativity and feeling rather bland in comparision.
Clothes, postcards, trees, toys, jewellery, horseheads, miniatures, music, stickers, princesses, photography, theatre, film - it was all there.
One of my favourites were the chess figures. This is how chess is supposed to be played -
A mean king...
with an even meaner queen....
and a wicked pawn...
Something I noticed was people are comfortable with dressing up for all sorts of reasons...
promoting rock horror metal bands like Shiroyamai...
selling mobile phone straps....
performing a play...
and errmm...even when having a beer...
There was also an eclectic mix of random installations, gadgets and odd things including...
strange and rather disturbing pictures of cats...
retro games..
a tree exhibition...
some fun people...
who make these toys...
plus an international presence courtesy of Singapore. This girl makes cool paper earrings and ring and exhibits at MAAD.
InSECT on the outside stage...
miniature animation sets...
I was asked if I wanted to be a princess but graciously declined...
and finally artists just doing their thing...
3 comments:
I have a very clear image in my head of you and Shiralee playing chess with those creatures.
I'm sure I'm predicting the future.
Having just read through your entire blog thus far in about 2 minutes y head is full of very entertaining and mixed up imagery, mostly of you navigating Japan by sniff :)
Go Cinta!
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