Tokyo Stock Exchange Bubbles, Literally
Hey, I’m Jefe, a mate of Juha’s. We happen to hang around the same parts of Auckland’s underbelly, and after we found out we could ride bikes and drink together we became friends. If you’ll indulge, please allow me to guestblog.
OK, so a good friend lives in Tokyo. For the past couple of years he’s been blowing bubbles, building bubble-blowing gear, experimenting with solution viscosity, figuring out how to go larger and longer.
The other day, 29 September, 2008, when global financial markets were going ape shit and the sky was falling and the USA was socializing itself for patriotism, he and I were emailing and he was like, ha, I’m going to go down to the Tokyo Stock Exchange to blow some bubbles. I was like, cool, you’re the Bubble King of Shibuya, send some snaps.
Next day I got this email:
“Came out of Nihonbashi Station and met a very genki 75 year old homeless man, spoke perfect English, lives out of cyber cafes, took me to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. I gave him my camera and he took about 50 snaps. The other guy is Peter, another friend, does crazy art projects, parties, skipped out on a business meeting to go make bubbles at the TSE…”
October 1st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
some bubbles are so large that we don`t realize that they are bubbles at all, but eventually
all bubbles pop, and the fine mist falls upon us whether we realized it in that instant or not..
such was the day yesterday in nihonbashi, home of the tokyo stock exchange. no visible signs of turbulence outside the building while the biggest ever global asset bubble has popped, leaving soot to fall upon us all for the foreseeable future..
if you want to invest, invest in your mind, invest in your relationships, invest only in truth.
no u turn needed