The "Why did you come here?" Question... (still intermission)

With the assistance of technology that gives a person access to virtually all of their pop 'culture' - the ability to recall just about anything that was ever printed or shown on a screen or a monitor is startling. And this all happened while I wasn't really paying attention.

So, why Japan? For a moment, I'll pretend to have an answer other than the honest truth (I haven't a clue).

Think Eiko Ishioka, not as a designer now living in New York, but the Eiko Ishioka that had a coffee table book published in 1990, "Eiko by Eiko", featuring most of her work for Parco.

She is/was connected with Kazumi Kurigami (a name I'd swear I'd never heard of 72 hours before this post).

He's responsible for something 

like the following 

31 seconds 

of 

seduction

And if you are still up for it 

for at least 

another 90 seconds 

or so, 

here's 

Fay Dunaway 

consuming an egg

I'll never be able to watch anyone eat an egg, ever again.

In my mind, the Land of the Rising Sun was not full of the uber-kitsch. None of the women would dare wear their high school uniform and call it sexy. There were women here once (and maybe even now). But things have changed....

Ishioka's sense of what she saw, with people like Kurigami, were broadcasting something from here that I'd swear I've never encountered. 

Anyway...