Tokyo Picnic Club’s 80-plus members have dedicated their varied talents to promoting the concept of picnics in a modern context and have claimed the right to picnic as a basic right for the many urban dwellers of Tokyo.
Taking coals to Newcastle? Not if the coal is washed and cleaned and bleached white and delicately sculpted. In fact the whole thing will be so different and well-organized, it will be no picnic in the park I would imagine.
Tokyo Picnic Club, a contemporary Japanese art unit founded in 2002 to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the picnic, has brought its unique take on picnicking in urban environments
This means laying a blue sheet on a concrete path, and then vomiting on it after two quasi-beers.
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Pukey2 at 05:02 PM JST - 16th August
Picnic, as in bringing your food to a park or some other place and eating it with your friends? Sorry, but they've had that in the UK for years.
medievaltimes at 07:56 PM JST - 16th August
What?
nandakandamanda at 09:29 PM JST - 16th August
Taking coals to Newcastle? Not if the coal is washed and cleaned and bleached white and delicately sculpted. In fact the whole thing will be so different and well-organized, it will be no picnic in the park I would imagine.
chibaman at 10:28 PM JST - 16th August
This means laying a blue sheet on a concrete path, and then vomiting on it after two quasi-beers.