And all of a sudden you find yourself in Tokyo, where you can't blow your nose in public but it's perfectly normal to read pornstyle manga in the subway. Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for culture-turbulences. In a week time, we visited artists, designers, companies and research-labs. Definite highlight was Maywa Denki , the friendly artist/designer/performer and inventor of the nonsense machines. During the week he welcomed us in his workshop, showed us around and explained a lot on how he worked. A few days later, we saw his amazing music-machine performance. If there would be a Nobel Prize for poetic craziness, he'd be my nominee.
Other visits were to the Philip Starck of Japan: Naoto Fukasawa, the Computer Science Lab of Sony and the Sony's design Lab. The last two were a bit disappointing in the way they were still so technology-focused and their lack of vision on the relevancy of those technologies. Although even noticing that can be very inspiring. Furthermore, we explored the city at day and night, leaving us with enough crazy impressions to think about for a while: impressions of maid café's, geek town and lovehotels.

Hey Tuur,

As true loving local parents, we admire your travelling and learning proces...
Hope we can meet again very soon to discuss your next project as I think it might need some parental advisory...
With love,

B&W