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Melbourne. Tokyo. Media.
Attempting to read Akutagawa's Rashomon.
So many facets.

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In the vicinity of the Japanese Imperial Palace, Tokyo.
Towards the left is Nagatacho, the home of the Diet, the Japanese National Parliament.
(Diet is a German word.)
Towards the right, the famed shopping precinct of Ginza.
@michaelveitch_official by @davidthomsonrome

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2 months ago

Tokyo-ga.
Garden City Plaza at Azabudai Hills, the new three-tower development in Tokyo.
On the subway train, passing the new station at nearby Toranomon Hills, you can see the luxury T-Court food court below.
The best engineering, civic and urban design in the world.
@sebaganeumann by @davidthomsonrome

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3 months ago

The second half of the mural.
Painted in Sydney one week ago.
@officialjudithlucy by @davidthomsonrome

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4 months ago

Touring in Melbourne in 2027.
I have always been wary of pop groups making political songs, sounding naff, but The Lebanon is an exception.
The Human League changed their style, with a driving elongated guitar riff. by @davidthomsonrome

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4 months ago

I had read all of Truman Capote's works, except Breakfast at Tiffany's.
A master work.
The subtlety and musicality of the language.
The refinement and poise.
Now the literary dust has settled, one can safely say Capote was America's greatest author of the second half of the 20th Century.
A prodigy.
A moral voice and persona.
Gone too soon, however, the works are immortal.
At the U.N. plaza apartments.
@nicolekidman by @davidthomsonrome

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4 months ago

Probably the greatest small art gallery on earth.
Certainly, its location is second to none.
The Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice.
Umberto Boccioni.
Dynamism of a Speeding Horse and Houses.
1915.
Dinamismo di un cavallo in corsa + case.
"Umberto Boccioni turned to sculpture in 1912 after publishing his manifesto on the subject on April 11 of that year. The Futurist aesthetic platform as articulated in this document advocates the use of various materials in a single work, the rejection of closed form, and the suggestion of the interpenetration of form and the environment through the device of intersecting planes. Here Boccioni assembled wood, cardboard, and metal, with painted areas showing a Futurist handling of planes influenced by the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Boccioni, like Raymond Duchamp-Villon, made studies of horses from nature before developing the motif into a nonspecific symbol of the modern age. Here he used the horse to demonstrate his observation that the nature of vision produces the illusion of a fusing of forms: when the distance between a galloping horse and a stationary house is visually imperceptible, horse and house appear to merge into a single changing form. Sculptures such as the present example are concerned with the apparent compression of space as an object traverses it, and with the nature of the object’s redefinition by that space."
@nicolekidman by @davidthomsonrome

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5 months ago

Visit to the Sydney Opera House.
The Opera Australia production of "Turandot".
With the famous "Nessun Dorma" aria.
Disappointed that OA chose to recast the setting, ignoring the awe and majesty of the Chinese Imperial Court, the Middle Kingdom.
Meantime... "Under the Moonlight, the Serious Moonlight... "
David Bowie, of course, lived in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, amid his last great creative burst.
Nearby, the famous Sebel Town House of the 1980s would have hedonistic stories to regale.
"There's no smoke without fire... "
@thelloydcole by @davidthomsonrome

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7 months ago

MJ - the Musical.
MJ's creative genius transcends the constructs and definitions of "Race" and "Identity".
Universal. by @davidthomsonrome

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8 months ago

Madonna and Child with Saint John by Raphael.
One of the very great works.
Known as Madonna of the Chair.
Madonna della Seggiola.
In the Saturn Room of the Palatine Gallery at the Pizzi Palace in Florence.
The mixture of emotions.
John's deference and loyalty, the foreboding of human cruelty.
@sriwhana by @davidthomsonrome

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10 months ago

Two geniuses.
America's greatest artist and Australia's greatest singer. by @davidthomsonrome

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a year ago

All good things must come to an end.
And so it is with the eighth season of Spiral ("Engrenages").
France's greatest crime and police drama.
@koolshenofficiel by @davidthomsonrome

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a year ago

Who's Bad - the Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience at The Palms at Crown in Melbourne, Australia.
The "outsider" becomes the central artist of our time, foundational.
Superbly led by Talib Abu.
"Stranger in Moscow."
I was wandering in the rain
Mask of life, feelin' insane
Swift and sudden fall from grace
Sunny days seem far away
Kremlin's shadow belittlin' me
Stalin's tomb won't let me be
On and on and on it came
Wish the rain would just let me be
How does it feel? (How does it feel?)
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
When you're alone
And you're cold inside
@bohonegrow by @davidthomsonrome

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a year ago