A man poses with whale wall art at Sunshine 60 observation deck at Ikebukuro Sunshine City in Tokyo. The exhibition of trick art includes gorillas, peacocks and many other motifs. The exhibition continues through Feb 29. Admission is 620 yen for adults, 460 yen for elementary and junior high school children, 310 yen for children over 4 and 500 yen for seniors over 65.
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Gurukun
I've seen an exhibition like this before. Pretty mindboggling! Awesome!
some14some
Thanks JT for showing these pictures online and saving my Yen 620 !
WilliB
I am pretty sure I visited the same exhibition at Sunshine already years ago with my kid. Neat, but it does not seem like news to me.
nath
Whats new is you can smell the cooked animals with soy sauce or ponzu seasonings. This is 4D art.
NetNinja
They have this in Odaiba as well.
paulinusa
Surprised that they allow him to touch it.
TSRnow
I've seen the Trick Art Museum in Takao. It's pretty fun taking pictures like this one. Especially for kids.
my2sense
Kids and seniors free and 500 yen for adults. I know I know I'm crazy and this is Japan.
Foxie
The whale doesn't look too impressed somehow.
cactusJack
Is he taking a bite out of the fin?
Ivan Coughanoffalot
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh? Oishii so da naaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
smithinjapan
Hope it lasts... these kind of things are often the target of kids who go a little wild and try to hang off them.
Ayler
Takes no small amount of skill tp paint false perspective like that. Impressive for kids and adults
MaboDofuIsSpicy
I think so too Ivan.
cleo
It's tromp l'oeil art. There are no bits for kids to hang off or for the man to adjust. It's all just painted on the flat wall.
Laguna
Cetacean settee, sea-tortoise side table - 最高!
Badge213
There's a trick art museum out in Takao tokyo across from the train station, very similar stuff, blows the mind ha.
anglootaku
Is Greenpeace going to move it's protest there too?
DenTok2009
Guess no chalk art here in this land of anime. Miss that.
MaboDofuIsSpicy
Me too DenTok2009
Have you ever really seen it live? It is fabulous.
skipbeat
Have never seen anything like it before. The arts looks cool. Is the whale's head sticking out, or is the painting painted to give it that effect?
DenTok2009
skipbeat, better go on a sidewalk art tour! You are missing out! If you can't get to the states (practically every city seems to sponsor a sidewalk artfest), then check out the trick art museum at Sunshine 60. Good to know the museum allows photography. It'll be a fun, touristy thing to do.
choiwaruoyaji
"Come along with me, nice whale. I have some friends on the Nishin Maru who are waiting to meet you... "
DenTok2009
MaboDofuIsSpicy, I've gone to sidewalk artfests. It's great summer fun!
http://danieldiaztecles.blogspot.com/
http://danieldiaztecles.blogspot.com/It's amazing, in Valencia (Spain) I have never seen a show like this. Children will have a blast.
imakara
Badge213, yes u a right. I have been there in 2009.
mctavish
It's for scientific purposes.