Duncan's English Pictionary! • ダンカンと英語であそぶPictionary!

Awesome! Awsome! Awesome! I'm part of the 250 Doors 2010 International Workshop Festival.
そうやねん。何か英語であそぶ人にボードゲーム「Pictionary」をやりましょうよ！時間があれば、是非来て下さい。

内容：人気ボードゲーム「Pictionary」のカスタマイズバージョンを全 部英語でやります! チームメンバーの1 人がお題の言葉を絵に描いて、他のメンバーが答える。当たりのチームが、ボードで進んでゴールに向かって突進! コミュニケーションを中心とした楽しいゲーム。誰でも使える英語なので、誰でも参加できます。

日時：2010年8月4日 13:00
場所：中央公会堂/展示室
対象：制限なし
持ち物：ノー ト、辞書(簡単なもの)
材料費、レンタル費：なし
ワークショップコーディネータ：【AIR大阪 recommend 】

申し込みはここです！

Miroco Machiko, "Yamanoiede" • ミロコマチコ、「やまのいえで」

I got one of those once-a-year type awesome jobs earlier this year. You know? The jobs that are SATISFYING, FUN and generally AWESOME. This job was to translate the picturebook Yamanoiede • やまのいえで (The Mountain That Ran Away), by the awesome Miroco Machiko.

ちょっとまえなぁ、あのたまの仕事を受け取りました。してる？満足、楽しくてホンマにスッゲ〜な仕事。偉大なミロコマチコの絵本「やまのいえで」を英訳するしごとでした。

Itohen published the book under their own independent publishing label Kite Press, and asked me to do the translations. I met Miroco Machiko at the official release exhbition at Itohen back in April. She's wonderful, brimming with energy. Honestly, for ¥840 "The Mountain that Ran Away" is a steal.

Itohenさんが「Kite Press」のラベルで出版した本で僕にやくをおねがいした。Itohenで正式とした開催展示（4月）でミロコマチコさんを出会いことになりました。素敵な人であふれんばかりの力。正直に言うったら、¥840で「やまのいえで」はタダ同然だ。

Currently, Miroco and Naoya Fujimoto (Burnt Blue) are having a dual exhibition at Gallery Tambourin Gallery in Tokyo.
ミロコマチコさんと藤本直也（Burnt Blue）が東京の「Tambourin Gallery」で開催することとないました。

みてみて！

Café Yuddy, Okamoto (Kobe) • カフェ ユーディ、岡本（神戸）

Here's an interesting thing. Delivering FLAG to Itohen one afternoon, Sumiya San introduced me to his wife, who happened to be having a break there at the time. She said she was working in a cafe in Kobe that served up tea.

これ面白い。ある日、FLAGをItohenさんの方へ配達した時、角谷さんがそこで休憩していた奥さんを紹介しました。神戸にあるカフェーでお茶の店で働いてるって言いました。

My wife loves tea, and Cafe Yuddy turned out to be a great place for a date on Sunday. Highly recommended if you're headed to Okamoto (JR Settsumotoyama or Hankyu Okamoto Stations). There's plenty of other things to see in the area as well!

僕の奥さんがお茶大好きでカフェ・ユーディは日曜日のデートでほんまに完璧でした。岡本（阪急岡本駅 / JR摂津本山駅）へ行くつもりあれば、おすすめでございます。その場所で他にたくさん見るものあります！

Cafe Yuddy
〒658-0072 神戸市東灘区岡本1-4-3 坂井ビル3F
岡本駅から徒歩2分 / 摂津本山駅から徒歩1分
TEL : 078-411-7228

Open : 11:30〜22:00 (日曜日は (Sun) 11:30〜20:00)
Closed: 第2火曜定休 (Second Tuesday and Regular Holidays)

Parallel Perspectives • パラレル パースペクティブ

Last night I went to the opening party of Parallel Perspectives, a solo exhibition of Australian Artist Lyn Derrick at JARFO in Kyoto.

昨日、リン・デリック「パラレル・パースペクティブ」の個人展を立ち寄りました。京都のJARFOさんで初日パーティーをやってました。

Lyn Derrick started her degree in Fine art at the Brisbane Institute of Art at the age of 52, and in this exhibition, we're lucky enough to see paintings, sculpture and installation, which is above and beyond what I expected. Her paintings are especially wonderful, bringing back memories of wonderful Australian beaches.

リンさんはオーストラリアのブリズベン・インスティチュート・オブ・アートで52歳の時勉強を始まりました。この展示で絵・彫刻（金属加工術）・インスタレーションを見えます。僕の期待よりはば広かった。とっても不思議でした。特に彼女の絵はすばらしかった。オーストラリアのビーチを思い出した。

Running until the 31st of July!
７月３１日まで開催！

My Coudai Nakamura Mushroom • 僕の中村晃大キノコ

A new addition to the garden!
庭に新しい追加！

In Winter, I went to gallery 6C to see Coudai Nakamura's exhibition. While there, he taught me how to paint his original faces, and so I became a Nakamura doppelganger • 本人の分身. It was good fun.

今年の冬、ギャラリー6Cへ立ち寄って中村晃大の展示を見た。そこにいる間中村のオリジナル顔の書き方を丁寧におっしゃっていただいて、中村さんの本人の分身になりました。楽しかった。

中村さん、ありがとう！

What's goin' down, July 2010 • 何が起こってんの、2010年7月

Well, I've been a tad bit lazy, skipping the action packed month of June. Not to worry, I'm back and meaner than ever with stuff for July.

Must Sees
It's Art Osaka 2010 this month! The greatest art fair in Kansai will be held at the Dojima Hotel on the 10th and 11th (12:00~19:00). There are 47 rooms to see, with 23 solo exhibitions. 4 floors of the hotel booked solid. It's our FLAGged Event this issue for FLAG 005. ￥1,000 for a 1 day pass.
http://www.artosaka.jp/

Other Recommends
Hirotsune TASHIMA's solo exhibition @ Yoshiako Inoue Gallery (July 7~31)
Shigeo FUKUDA's Visual Jumping @ ddd gallery (July 13~Sep 4)

Keep an eye on these information sites:
Thought I'd do a bit of a spotlight on Konohana-ku this time. I guess because rents cheap, all these creative places are popping up down there.
Konohana Media—http://medias.sitemix.jp/
Buzzing with events and proactive community based art.
Baikado—http://www.baikado.org/
A nice artist in resident program.
Kurome Garou—http://kuromegarou.seesaa.net/
The coolest underground gallery and event, live space in Konohanaku.

What's goin' down, May 2010 • 何が起こってんの、2010年5月

Have a great Golden Week everyone! Rock those exhibitions galleries people! Woot!

Must Sees
Got some hot stuff this month.

You're a fool if you don't make the ART FAIR KYOTO @ The Hotel Montery!
33 galleries including YOD Gallery, Gallery Out of Place, Neutron, Muzz Program Space and stacks of others. If you present you entrance ticket, you'll get a ¥2,000 discount on any art you are interested in buying.

There are 2 FLAGGED exhibitions you MUST see. The first is Junko ISHIRO, "Darkness and White Shadow" @ Gallery Hosokawa. The 'white shadow' refers to the parts of the canvas she has left unpainted on purpose. Paintings that call back memories. The other exhibition is "Pearls" by Tomoko INAGAKI @ The Third Gallery Aya. INAGAKI has been in Germany for the past year, and this is the result. Her previous exhibitions, especially her installations, have been STUNNING. Hard to sell I imagine, but STUNNING. See them both!

Other Recommends
22 Pieces of Surfactant @ CASO
Creative Moments @ SoHo Gallery (May 25th~June 13th) FLAGGED
Junko ISHIRO "Darkness and White Shadow" @ Gallery Hosokawa (May.17~Jun.12) FLAGGED
Tomoko INAGAKI "Pearls" @ The Third Gallery Aya (May.7~22) FLAGGED
Keisuke JINBA @ 2kw Gallery (May.3~15)
BeBe Re:S, Shunsuke ITO & Naoki HAYASE - LIVE 16th May (16:00 Open) ¥2,000
@ いとう写真 http://re-s.jp/beberes
Art Fair ULTRA KYOTO @ The Sugimoto House, tangible cultural properties of Kyoto-city (May.15+16, 11:00~19:00), ¥3,000

Keep an eye on these information sites:
Follow us at FLAG on twitter:
http://twitter.com/FLAG_Osaka
Goto San powers this thing. He's awesome, absolutely pumping out information from Osaka.

Tsunagari D Delicious Bookmarks
http://delicious.com/TsunagariD/TsunagariD
My Personal Mix bag of everything I come across. You have been warned.