I could say something very cynical about commercialism, Christmas, and Disney. Like how it’s no coincidence that the awesomest Christmas lights and displays pop up in the poshest shopping districts and usually bookend high-end department stores. Or how the lights attract shoppers to the stores like moths to the flame. BUT! Since I have a little more than a week left here, I’m inclined to be grateful and downright child-like in my appreciation for all things SHINY and MERRY and BRIGGHHHHHHHT!
EXHIBIT A: Ebisu Garden Place (brought to you by Baccarat crystal)
it was rainy and cold but it made this cool foggy effect on my camera!
up close and personal with the baccarat crystal chandelier. really felt like a moth over here!
as you can see lot of nutcases like me who braved the rain for this
the christmas tree and chandelier were on opposite ends of each other. shininess all around. the rain had such a pretty effect
...like the song Fields of Gold!!! i like the eva cassidy AND sting version...beautiful song!
"...you can tell the sun in his jealous sky, when we walked in fields of golddd...." or walked in fields of concrete with endless shopping options! (check out mitsukoshi, huge dept. store in nihon, on the left! and the "baccarat eternal lights" lol)
EXHIBIT B: Omotesando Hills (brought to you by Disney and Swarovski)
i saw this carriage and was like, 'this girl looks like she's waiting to go to the ball..."
and then i went inside! OMG someday my prince will come indeed....it was all disney-ed out! disney conditioning runs deep. carriage cues outside etc.
magical shopping moments...look the whole mall complex was synchronized with lights! i was impressed in spite of myself and my disney-ambivalence.
changing colors and playing disney christmas songs and classics like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
i was grinning like dopey and even shut off my ipod to listen to the disney songs blasting throughout the whole mall and every single store. most stores even had disney "limited edition" things for their brand...crazy.
fields of gold again
close-up of the mickey heads...so pretty
close-up of the top of the tree...of course tinker bell is the star!!
can you see the security guard by all the picture-takers?
i spy jafar's silhouette!
hope you enjoyed the pics and half-hearted/quasi-political commentary! I will probably be binge-posting in the next few days because there’s just SO much I want to write about, got a backlog of like at least three posts running…if anyone’s even reading this hehe. And PS below are picture addendums to my last last post with the really pretty illuminations…those illuminations were made possible in part by Citizen watches…funny yeah!
this was at the entrance of the "time flows"...and you can see the illumination on the water to the right.
and they had a huge clock illumination with their logo on it. hehehehe. "TIME TIME TIME, see what's become of me, while I looked around for my possibilities...! I was so hard to please..But look around, leaves are brown, And the sky is a HAZY SHADE OF WINTER!"
love from meeeeee the baby moth
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