So this has been on my mind for the past couple of years, and now there’s a web series coming soon. Very cool.
Author: Michael Janairo
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Haiku movie reviews, July 2015
Jurassic World (2015)
The brothers bore me
Their aunt, though, and those high heels?
Dinosaurs watch out!Vengeance (2009)
Gangsters sneak around
Gunfire erupts in Macau
A dad’s mind is lostInside Out (2015)
In internal realms
Feelings — not gods — vie to rule
This is mainstream fare? -
Pittsburgh, La Hutte Royal, and The Mattress Factory
An art day in Pittsburgh.
First stop, La Hutte Royal, an art installation inside a house in the Troy Hill Neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The installation is by the German artist Thorsten Brinkmann, and the home is owned by the art collector Evan Mirapaul, who commissioned the installation.
The living room of La Hutte Royal (with my brother pointing out an album cover). 
A narrow passageway on the mysterious second floor of La Hutte Royal. 
One of the few spaces on the second floor where you can stand, after crawling around, with my spouse and brother. Lunch
Everything is pretty close in Pittsburgh, but getting from Troy Hill to Bloomfield for lunch meant driving down Rialto Street, which my brother said was like a roller coaster. Our destination wasn’t far, though.
Pittsburgh lunch at Tessaro’s in the Bloomfield neighborhood (the place is known for hamburgers cooked over a wood-fired grill). The Mattress Factory
The Mattress Factory is a museum, artist-in-residence, and educational complex in multiple buildings in the historic Mexican War Streets area of the North Side of Pittsburgh.
A view of the downtown Pittsburgh skyline from The Mattress Factory in the North Side neighborhood. 
Ryder Henry’s “Diaspora” at The Mattress Factory. 
Ryder Henry’s “Diaspora” at The Mattress Factory. 
Ryder Henry’s “Diaspora” at The Mattress Factory. 
John Pena’s “Word Balloon” at The Mattress Factory. 
Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Dots Mirrored Room” at The Mattress Factory, with my brother at right and spouse at left. 
Yayoi Kusama’s “Repetitive Vision” at The Mattress Factory, with my brother. -
Haiku movie reviews, June 2015
Love and Mercy (2015)
Living on the edge
Brian Wilson hears so much
Joy in creationBrooklyn Castle (2012)
Junior high chess champs
Won’t be outplayed by budgets
These kids: They got gameMad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Big engines go roar
Lots of crazy stuff blows up
— Women rule the dayGone Girl (2014)
He said or she said
It’s from someone’s point of view
— UnreliableSpy (2015)
McCarthy goes Bond
Nobody does it better
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Highlights from the Met Museum, Pierre Huyghe’s Roof Garden Commission
Pierre Huyghe’s Roof Garden Commission at the Met Museum in NYC. 
Pierre Huyghe’s Roof Garden Commission at the Met Museum in NYC. -
Highlights of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971, at MoMA in NYC
It ends when its covered with leaves
It ends when the leaves whither
It ends when it turns to ash
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Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015 
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015 
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015
