XOCHIMILCO (Southern Mexico City)

XOCHIMILCO (Southern Mexico City) foto: @_ithaka_ [][][] An ancient (pre-Aztec) series of canals between man made agricultural islands in the middle of a large lake. For about the last hundred years it has also been the zone of an incredible folklorish activity...riding up and down the canals in Trajineras (gondola barges). Basically you show up with with 10-15 of your best friends and...rent a barge and an gondolier and Go. Other smaller barges arrive with by your side with home-cooked meals and drinks...even Mariachis come floating by to serenade you. 

Takashi Murakami At Mars Gallery - 1992

Takashi Murakami photographed in Shibuya-Ku - Tokyo, Japan 

by Ithaka Darin Pappas in 1992.

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Takashi Murakami (村上 隆 Murakami Takashi^?, born February 1, 1962) is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. He coined the termsuperflat, which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society.