Tokyo-1990 / 20年前の東京 (2010 Exhibition Video)

2010年に使った銀座展示会1990年の動画。平成2年の東京。

The main video I used for my June 2010 Ginza exhibition / installation entitled "Tokyo-1990 / 20年前の東京".

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

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• Tokyo
• 1990
• 20年前
• 東京
• Exhibition
• Video
• street
• scenes
• Lyle
• videos
• 平成
• 2年

[StarDr0ps]

37:56 I was thinking the same thing! It is a little creepy down there. Anyway, I just finished watching the whole video. I love when people smile when you take video of them. :) Anyway, I was wondering, have you ever gone back to any of these places to see how they look now?

[lylehsaxon]

@StarDr0ps That old former hotel was destroyed not long after I took that and there is now a high-rise apartment building there. The basement of that place was seriously scary! People smiling for the camera - yeah - this was before YouTube and cell phones, so people generally liked having their pictures taken. Ebisu is really different now! Most of the places I've gone back to, although some have changed so radically it's hard to believe their actually the same place! - LHS

[lylehsaxon]

@lylehsaxon "believe their actually" -> believe they're actually...

[grig60]

Pretty cool. Wonder what people were thinking seeing you walk with a video camera? They seem indifferent.

[lylehsaxon]

@grig60 Well, this was pre-Internet (from the standpoint of the general population anyway) and pre-cell phone, so I think people didn't think much about it. Plus people here have traditionally probably taken more pictures per person than anyone other group of people on the planet, so they understood the urge to record pictures... I think. - LHS

[OctopusTokyo]

Thanks for putting this online, I just watched through the whole film fascinated to see what places which mean a lot to me now looked like 20 odd years ago. As the above poster said, you still get the occasional feeling of the Showa era poking through, and though Tokyo has the same basic form now as it did then, it feels a lot more polished.

On the other hand I have the feeling the difference between Tokyo 1970 and 1990 would be much more pronounced than 1990-2010.

[lylehsaxon]

@OctopusTokyo That may be true (that 70-90 was a bigger change than 90-10). Probably the biggest difference would be the air. In 1970, from pictures I've seen, Tokyo had a much worse smog problem than it does now. For the buildings, it would depend on the area. Actually, I noticed a pretty rapid change between 1984 and 1990, so I keep wishing I'd had a video camera to use in 1984. I think 70-84 wouldn't be so different... maybe. But Tokyo never stops changing! - LHS

[0918masaya]

俺が生まれる四年前だ～

なんか懐かしい雰囲気だな～

[lylehsaxon]

@shu910 そうなんです！ テレビのドラマとか映画は、あのごろ皆がワイワイしていたのよう­なイメージを作るが、当時銀行マンぐらいは、本当にワイワイした­かも知らないけど、普通の人間は違う。 言えるのは、現在の六本木ヒルズとかがあのごろ計画した。 その意味で、現在は確かに経済は悪いが、町は、バブルよりも、ピ­カピカですよ。 昭和時代と言うと、平成は始まったばかりなので、なんでも突然変­わる訳ないですようね。

[shu910]

この頃はバブルで日本が元気だったとかよく言われていますが、そ­れほど豊かなようには見えませんね。あちこちに昭和の匂いが残っ­ている感じですね。

ちなみに1990年は私が生まれた年です。