True Stories
True Story 10: My first exhibition
After all these years, I finally held my first exhibition.
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I am not sure if wearing a G-string qualifies as naked, but lets not be that picky today.
Title: Preparation for naked sushi.
Photo Code: 20050616084 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Naked. Sushi. On banana leaves. But somehow I took only pictures instead of eating something.
Title: Naked Sushi.
Photo Code: 20050616098 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
The other sushi girl got instantly hired as a new cover girl for the Player magazine.
Title: Naked Sushi.
Photo Code: 20050616101 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
And there they are, the hungry people enjoying some special presented sushi.
Title: Naked Sushi.
Photo Code: 20050616106 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
It seems to tickle. I should try myself. But who would like to eat from my slightly inflated belly?
Title: Naked Sushi.
Photo Code: 20050616110 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
80 guests in the VIP room lost all interest in my art works and ate instead.
Title: Naked Sushi at the party.
Photo Code: 20050616117 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
The manager of the Player magazine could not get enough and obviously never learned to eat with chopsticks...
Title: Yum, yum!
Photo Code: 20050616125 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
...while Jane stopped bodypainting and instead filmed the sushi girl with the night shot function of her camera.
Title: Naked Sushi.
Photo Code: 20050616128 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Naked Sushi, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Since I organized the body painting performance, I could not take pictures of everything, so fast forward and there you go, the performance starts in front of about 400 people in the basement of the club.
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616143 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
While Kaori was dancing on the counter, Kelly covered her with big chunks of vaseline.
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616158 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616168 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616179 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616180 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616185 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
...and dancing, while I had to hold some fans back, who wanted to join the fun.
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616192 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Somehow we forgot to cover the bar counter and at first it just looked like this.
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616193 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
The crowd, here presented by my buddy Chris obviously enjoyed the show.
Title: The audience at a bodypainting performance.
Photo Code: 20050616200 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Audience, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Finally Jane and Kelly started the messy part of the show...
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616201 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
...and Ken could not stop taking pictures!
Title: The audience at a bodypainting performance.
Photo Code: 20050616203 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
I know that Jane enjoyed especially this part.
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616223 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
And Kelly liked to be all messed up.
Title: Kelly, the body painter.
Photo Code: 20050616225 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
In the end, Kaori looked like this...
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616237 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
...and this, while the audience was cheering.
Title: Bodypainting Performance.
Photo Code: 20050616241 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Body Painting, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
The performance ended and we urgently tried to organize a shower for fantastic Kaori. Plus we somehow had to clean the battlefield.
Title: The dirty counter.
Photo Code: 20050616250 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Counter, Party, Exhibition, Photos, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Finishing the cleaning, I finally could just enjoy the party, the great feedback to my pictures and some surprising gender issues, which shall not be revealed. Uhm, at least not all.
Title: Girls kissing.
Photo Code: 20050616252 (Please use this Photo Code for Inquiries)
Keywords: Kissing Girls, Party, Exhibition, Club Pipers, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
That was it, my first exhibition. It was fun and I guess I should do this again.
A special thanks goes to Russel and the Player team for the opportunity, to my lovely fiance Ako for helping me with everything, to Jane, Kelly and Kaori for the cool performance, to Aki helping me with organisation, to the 2 sushi girls for being so brave, to the Club Pipers team for the assistance and hospitality, to all guests of the party and to all my friends who could make it or not and the ones I could not bring in anymore, because my guestlist was already way too full.
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