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It seems I checked out two exhibit-type things last month. \u00c2\u00a0One was the temporary Japan Media Arts Festival, the other was the Studio Ghibli museum.<\/p>\n

The Ghibli museum had just what I like to see in museums – thoughtful, clever details in little places. \u00c2\u00a0(That’s exactly what I like about California Adventures, by the way). \u00c2\u00a0From the manhole covers, to little anthropomorphic dustballs poking out of corners, to little endless tunnels, or perfectly polished (dangerous) mirrors at dead end hallways, this cozy museum was quite entertaining. \u00c2\u00a0There was even a life sized Catbus (from totoro) that was full of kids. \u00c2\u00a0Of course, there were sketches and film gizmos galore, but I really enjoyed just seeing how they’d put the place together, and what clever things had been put where. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The place was swarming with families and kids though – despite a cap on the number of visitors per day (tickets have to be reserved months in advance, via a very awkward convenience store automated kiosk. \u00c2\u00a0I think the difficulty of the reservation system is actually part of the threshold to filter people from being able to visit.)\u00c2\u00a0The museum has a strict policy of no photos while indoors, which was actually a little liberating. \u00c2\u00a0Since I couldn’t take any photos, it made my experience and the stuff I was looking at just a little more special, exclusive, and expirable. \u00c2\u00a0 Ah yes – but this photo of a robot from Laputa (he’s friendly) was on the roof, which was outside, so everyone took pictures with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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The Japan Media Arts event, on the other hand, wasn’t quite as delightful. \u00c2\u00a0It was free, and therefore packed with people. \u00c2\u00a0There were awards for the tenori-on<\/a>, a funky electronic music maker, an anime short which won an Oscar two weeks later, manga, and “exhibitions” (translate: artsy, borderline inaccessible stuff). \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nLa Maison en Petites Cubes<\/a> from dorsumi<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the exhibits with a little more potential had people fishing in a pond, by using internet-enabled cellphones. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a really clear explanation anywhere (or it was buried in people). We were staring at an engaging, slightly ugly (but endearing in that new technology sort of way), screen with colorful, named fish floating by. She entered her name into the phone, but her fish never came by :( Turns out we should have been looking at the floor, which had a projection of the pond and fishing poles, so that we could CATCH a fish, which would then adopt her name. Oops. Well, it had promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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