Jul 25

地獄のよう、真夏のうだるように暑さに負け、のどがカラカラのに安心しろ。東京の夜はアル中のためのキャンディーストアみたい、渇きを潤せるトコは山ほどある。

特に、ここ。

しかし大人の飲めるリフレッシュメントだけではなく、ロココロが集まっている美味しい非行はあらゆる種類の色。だから皆がついにここに遊びにくる。

まるで飛んで火に入る夏の虫みたい。

The sweltering Summer days and warm evenings parch your throat.

Looking for something to quench that? No worries. Tokyo’s got you covered in spades.

IATN’s regular haunt down at Center-gai’s end will keep your head spinning all night; if not from the copious amounts of adult beverages you manage to stuff down your pipe, then from the sheer randomness of it all. The endless parade of DJs cramming into the booth for 30-minute sets, to flashes of partial nudity— typically in the form of a newly-minted salaryman, to the dart-throwing-in-between-dancers, to Sabertooth-grade hairiness, to mating rituals galore. I just sit back and observe.

Moths to the flame, I say.

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Jun 20

18

ジュウハチ。
米国の文化には、大人の年だ。
その通り、これからMPのセットはもう子供遊びから抜けて、大人的な深い芸術を狙っています。

うて。

Mooo~Party, you turn in #18 this evening.
In America, it’s the number associated with legal sex, smoking, and eligibility for imprisonment in one of our MANY fine penal institutions.
From the looks of the set, looks like you’re on your way there already… :\

Cheers.

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Jun 13

麻布のコンクリートの下であるWAREHOUSE 702から、ロンドン・コーリングの電子的な働き音が流れる。ここで世界的に名高いDJのMonika KruseJaime DoomZombie NationRitonJoJo de Freq、さらに最近の2周年パーティーに参戦したLayo & Bushwacka!もお前の目の前に出した。ミニマルに音的な奴隷のような東京の夜の人々に対するため、LCが東京で今まで2年間ずっと新しい味の経験を作ってやってあげている。

このイベントで”LCは2歳になった。赤ちゃんのように、もうハイハイすることをやめて、自分の力で立って明るい将来へダッシュ!

LCの伝説は始まったばっかりだから、東京の夜に遊んでる人。。。。覚悟。

Booming from deep within Warehouse 702, and busting its ass to grace Tokyo danceaholics and electro fiends with the likes of Monica Kruse, Riton, JoJo de Freq, Zombie Nation, and most recently, Layo & Bushwacka!, LC consistently dares you to think outside the Minimal box and get out on the dancefloor. Having cemented itself into Kansai’s Clubbing Lore, LC has brought the Electro Circus to Edo and is leaving a trails of exhausted bodies in its wake.

London Calling has now entered into its Terrible Twos, and plans to run all. over. you.

Happy Birthday.

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Jun 3

想像入ってないパーティーフォトグラファーの写真集を掲載する雑誌にもううんざいだ。デジタルやフィルム、結婚式やイメージ乱交パーティー(例:ミッドタウンのどこでも)、キャノン5Dマーク2やホルガや使い捨てやつを使っても。「良い写真」及び「芸術」はこんなことと関係ねぇだろう。おい、そこ「写真家」。しっかりしろ!その時間を止める一眼空気取り込み物を握るまえにちゃんと作戦しろ。

しないなら、相手に永遠になれず。

この下記の61枚の証拠で十分にわかるはず。

以上

I’m growing tired of seeing magazines feature “party photographers” whose shots, the ones that aren’t completely out of focus, are simply a endless parade of the rehashed and recycled. “Yeah baby, lick your lips like that. That’s *sooo* sexy”, or “Hey, you’ll look soooo much cooler if I shoot you with this polaroid! It won’t matter if it looks like shit…. in fact, the worse it looks, the more *vintage* it is, yeah?”. And my all time favorite, the half-baked partygoer throwing up the peace sign while sticking out their tongue or flashing a bit of tit. Ooooh, that’s *so* rave/mod/punk/whocares.

Kill me now.

People, it doesn’t matter if you shoot film or digital, if you’re covering a Bar Mitzvah or an underground s&m tranny party, if you’re packing a holga, plastic throw-away, or 5D Mk.II. There’s no excuse for your shots to be just as blasé and vapid as, let’s be honest here, some of the subjects you’re pointing that lens at.

Here are 61 reminders why, as long as you keep putting your mind in neutral while you hold that time-freezing image capture device, you will never be able to touch us.

Now wake up and get to fucking work.

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May 2

In hand, this glass eye.
Waiting to steal emotions
from a safe distance.

恥ずかしさ
そして抑制
も脱げよう

 

 

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Apr 16

下北沢のコンクリートの下に、今日のこの俺の誕生日に、楽器を振り回している激しいママルズと楽しんでいる酒乱の日本人及びノルウェー人、まるでコヨーテアグリー風テーブルダンス、三つの老舗のパーティーの侑儞っていう状況に朝まで俺が囲まれた。

なんて仕事だ。

I spent my 30th birthday hidden away in a basement-level live house in Shimokitazawa surrounded by raging Mammals wielding instruments, drunken Japanese and Norwegian hordes, table dancers, a joining of forces of three venerable Tokyo late-night parties, and carbonated soju in a can.

… and I was at *work*.

nice.

 

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Mar 23

もう六ヶ月「MOOO」に取り組んでいるけど、まだまだ新たな味にするパーティーだぜ。毎度。

他のイベントやパーティーより、俺とこのアル中ロック爆発との歴史は無敵だ。きっと。

気分の情熱の温度は冗談じゃねぇぞ。

スタッフはエロエロお前らもエロエロ。俺はエロ王

この場所の情報を広めろ。

内緒は必要。。。ではない。

以上。

Six months in and the shit never gets tired.

No other party in Tokyo can claim as much history with me as Rock no Cocoro & Mooo~Party. And I am always amazed at just how different every set turns out to be, though the venue remains the same. If you’re stumbling about Shibuya on a Saturday night when this party is raging, you owe it to yourself to make yourself known. I’ll make you (in)Famous. Promise.

This is me watching you watching me watch you. Over and out.

 

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Mar 18

2月の「地球最後」を乗り切れたから、生き延びたパーティーピーポーはまた新たな音楽的なヤクに触手を伸ばしていた、ロンドン・コーリング風に。

てめぇらを愛しすぎるロンドン・コーリングは君たちのに合わせて、イギリスのDJスペシャリスト、リトン(仏蘭西語の俗語で「ヘンリー」って意味する)を食卓に出した。悪くないだろう?さらにタカミさんの再びパフォーマンス、ロンドンコーリングのレジデント達DJ MUNOZやCARSTENSENもリトンの援軍DJとしてダンスフロアをロックした。あとLCのVJでDAVID ROY+東京の進歩的なアートシーンの寵児、SHANTELL MARTINも、美的感性の能力で皆の目を満足させた。

んで俺?いや、別に見張っただけ。(恥)

そんじゃ。

パトリック a.k.a. パト(ポルトガル語のスラングで「ホモ」って意味する)

Having weathered Doomsday back in February, the surviving hordes were salivating for another dose of all night mayhem, London Calling style.

LC once again loves you bastards too much, and pulled out the stops to let Sir Henry a.k.a. Henry Smithson a.k.a. RITON (that’d be Franco slang for “Henry”, comprendre?) make love to your eardrums with a little bit of night music for a few hours this past Saturday night. Exuding an infectious amount of energy while managing the decks with the care and confidence of the seasoned professional he is, Riton’s Japan debut left an indelible mark upon the danceaholic Tokyoites, for which I seriously doubt that’ll be the last we see of him in our neck of the woods. Also cutting a swath across the dancefloor was Takami, back after popular demand from strutting his stuff at Doomsday, as well as London Calling’s own Mike Munoz and James Carstensen. LC’s VJ, David Roy (in Tokyo!) satiated your eyeballs’ need for satisfaction, and the brilliant Shantell Martin tattooed herself all over you with her live drawing antics.

Me? I just watch shit.

peace.

- Patrick a.k.a. Pato (that’d be Portuguese slang for “Homosexual”, ya heard?)

 

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Feb 22

今日アメリカのアカデミー賞で、「毎月渋谷である入場無料パーティー(朝まで安全に暴れるバー)映画賞」を受賞したのは。。。

Mooo~Party、ロックのこころ!おめでとうございます!

下の写真集は映画からの一こま。

MOOO~PARTY、万歳

And the Oscar for “Best Monthly Party in Shibuya (Where You Can Booze Around Without Fear of Getting Molested By Some Douchebag in a Collard Shirt)” goes to…..

MOOO~PARTY @ ROCK NO COCORO!

Congrats to all the winners (that would be you).

p.s. How do you have a *monthly* party and celebrate the 1 Year Anniversary with its FOURTEENTH installment? Moreover, how do you get away with throwing one of the most consistent, lively, *friendly*, boozified all-night small scale parties in the heart of Shibuya and not charge a cover?

Truly, the mysteries of life are amazing.

p.p.s. Fake Tits in the Bar.

 

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Feb 17

去年、混みすぎたメトロポリスのGLITTERBALL HALLOWEEN PARTYの後、スタッフがイベントの計画を考え直して、大パーティーにもっと合ってる広いイベント場所「NO NAME」が決まった。(ありがとう!)写真家のこの俺の目の前、こんな喧しい感じのいい飲み放題(おい、コロナ!)パーティーを撮るのはなかなか楽しかった。セクシーな天使、美味しそうな夢魔たち、花売り、DJが打つトラックセレクションに合わせるドラマーおよびトランペットのライブ出演、食べ放題、入れ墨や、ポールダンサー達も!

やるな、メトロポ。

So after last year’s crush of humanity that was Metropolis‘ Glitterball Halloween Party, Metoropo decided to flex some event planning muscle and chose No Name’s multi-tiered, cavernous maw for this year’s Valentine’s Day festivities. I caught the first half (7-Midnight) of this all-night affair and it definitely was a feast for the ocular sockets. Scantily clad angels, demonic succubi, flower vendors, live drummers and trumpeters, free food, DJs for days, Sir Inksalot, and pole dancers made sure everyone had a good time.

Oh, and an open bar (Hey, Corona!) helps as well.

Word.

 

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