By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:45:10 +0000

We visited Coney Islands Library last week to see the free freak show of curiosities of Takeshi Yamada. (The library no longer opens Saturday this year due to the serious budget cut despite the biggest & most expensive government spending in the history of this country by President Obama with 2.4 trillion dollars and tripled the national debt). His cabinet of curiosities were on the lobbies of both floors and they were really awesome. I especially loved Coney Island brand exotic canned foods, horseshoe crab warrior mask, and mummified witch’s hand with six fingers. One of the librarians there even kindly told us about the show and the Japanese artist who produced this special show there or a few minutes. (I never had this type of nice services at any libraries with art shows.) I visited Yamada’s Freak baby Museum last year at Dreamland Amusement Park. It was awesome. He even gave us a short tour about each freak baby there. I did not know they were made of his own skin then. Awesome! I really hope this show will not close down due to this government’s serious budget cut!

By: sueb262

sueb262 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:17:48 +0000

Wow! That is so interesting! Thanks for this response–I actually merely hoped that someone would know the answer to this; I never imagined that we would get such a full and detailed answer directly from the author’s own writings about his work. I like how he looks at this.

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