Kjell Hahn

floor down.
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mr. watanabe from jomon shimbun newspaper (biggest newspaper in gunma) interviewed me about the exhibition today. we had a nice conversation.. i think he understood what i was trying to say… it got me excited about doing tom thumb again. i just wish it wasnt so hard to convince people that it would be in their best interest to participate more.
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tomorrow Neba and i are starting to build a wood-fired oni castle for the exhibition. we’ll also decide what to do about a possible mikoshi (poryable shrine)… we talked about building one last week, but it might be an insane amount of work to get it done in time.. normally it takes years and 10s of thousands of dollars to make one.

studio very close to ready.
2nd floor walls and ceilings are done so i can start to lay down the flooring.
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this weekend i received oni ten submissions from John Dix and Pip Brant.
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yesterday fuyuko and i bicycled up sakurayama mountain, stopping along the river several times to swim.

finally put together a video of the Onishi Matsuri from a few weeks back. its been a while.
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i am probably going to stop using u-tube and continue with vimeo… that is if i make another video in the next 6 months.
(if you go to the vimeo site you can download the full 400 mb file until august 1st)

Music festival in the small town of Onishi, Japan in Gunma Prefecture. Video taken by Kjell Hahn.

neba, a potter friend of mine, came over the other day and showed us some raku bowls he had just made that afternoon…
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on august 1st and 2nd he’ll be back in onishi to fire a giant oni sculpture for the ONi TEN exhibition. we might also start building a mikoshi or portable shrine for the opening party.
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off work the next 5 weeks.
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doing a whole lotta nothing.
onishi river swimming

festival done.
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a few things–>
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i opened up this blog for people to register and submit content. this means you can post images, videos, links or whatever. only if it is incredibly offensive will i remove it. i just wanted to try that and see what happens, if anything.
so click on REGISTER on the top left, make an account and post why you are more important than me.
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i’m trying a few different things with the ONi TEN part of the site still. I was going to make it a forum but coulndt find a japanese one and thought it would be too complicated for some people to use anyway. pleaze be patient and keep checking the site for updates.
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here are pictures from a very long weekend.

we’ve been dragging a shrine around all weekend. didnt get much done in the studio but got to walk around in the middle of the street drinking continuously for 48 hours, screaming at the top of my lungs while little old ladies looked on with approving smiles.
perfectly acceptable behavior at the time.

well, the festival started.
no diaper, but im not sure if i want to make a habit if wearing my new outfit.

i was testing microsoft’s bing search engine today since an article in the NY times claimed it was superior to google in some ways. i didnt find anything special about it but i ran across the school newspaper i worked at in college, The Monitor and to my surprise found out they digitally archived ALL of their issues….
I looked through several of them, read some of Paz and Co’s rants but am still looking for Jimmy’s infamous interview regarding the university president.
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im making a japanese version of this blog dedicated to out upcoming ONI TEN exhibition. (thanks jimmy)

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this weekend there is a big traditional music festival here in Onishi. the guys pulling the mikoshi shrine have been forcing alcohol on me 24 hours a day and i they might make me wear a japanese diaper for the procession today…. i dont think im going to get much done in the studio.

i really thought there would be more than one comment on the last post… oh well.
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fuyuko’s tea ceremony continues until next weekend. many people came again this week and she was nice enough to plug the ONI TEN exhibition. More and more people keep offering to contribute.
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my landlord gave me some garlic.
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