The sun and the ice sculptures in Ginza

Man, today was a hot day... I went to watch the Dark Knight today at Roppongi Hills (六本木ヒルズ) and made a stop-over at Ginza around noon. It was very humid and hot which is pretty common these days but there was something unexpected - a series of ice sculptures set up in the middle of the street (which is closed for traffic these days). I mean come on, I was feeling like I myself was melting. Thankfully the sculptures had a little help from thin blocks of dry ice put on and around them but I think you can see the water dripping even in this picture. I have no idea how long the sculptures kept up but it couldn't have been very long. Pretty lucky of me to have caught them just around the time they were put up...

On a not-so-related note, The Dark Knight, is a very good, if a tad long, movie. I enjoyed it quite a bit and I think the number of "foreigners" at Roppongi Hills Toho Theater was the highest so far.

Chanel Building in Ginza （銀座）

Ginza is the center of luxurious shopping in Tokyo. Cartier, Tiffany's, Rolex, and Chanel are just a few of the stores on the main shopping street. Within the different displays and lights today I realized that the Chanel Building has a huge (i.e. covering all of the front of the multistorey building) screen. Having passed there more than a few times in the past it is quite a huge thing to miss but they managed to blend it so well with the background that it is very easy to miss if one does not look up. This time I made a small video of it - just 30 seconds long. The whole animation lasts much longer than that but you get the idea... It is one of the most harmonious uses of a screen on a building. The fact that it is in black and white makes it all the easier to blend in with the building.