Date Night: Winter Lights (Part 2 of 2)

Link to Part 1

This Date Night is brought to you by Shiodome and Tokyo Dome.

Shiodome
Unfortunately, we went on one of the holiday days very early in the year, so the really cool display we saw last year wasn't active. Hopefully we'll get a chance to go back and see it before it gets taken down.

Nearby was an archway and a train made of lights, so that's something.

It's a MAGIC FLYING TRAIN made of lights!

Tokyo Dome
Tokyo Dome's theme was a garden party or flowers or something. Less illuminated than last year (they had a pirate ship last year!), but still pretty.

The tree is made of pansies! I don't know what this wizardry is that can keep flowers that healthy in the winter, but I appreciate that they made it happen.

Not just one tree, either.

The courtyard with the fair rides (the still-not-running roller coaster, swings, Ferris wheel, and a couple others) had a couple large color-shifting displays.

Artsy photo brought to you by Husband Man.

Illuminated gazebo is full of happy music and dancing lights.

If it weren't a holiday, those benches would be full of families and couples.

A last look at the plaza before heading home.

Edit: We never did get around to seeing the other illuminations. Maybe next year!

Project in the Works: Threadless Shirt Design

If you have a Threadless account or care to log in via Facebook, please vote for my shirt design, "BLT Nation"! At time of writing, it's up for two more days.

Where did that design come from?
On New Year's Eve, at that magical hour of 4am in which everything is funny, one of our friends mentioned that it's not unreasonable to, on first hearing, think that LGBT is a kind of sandwich. You know, like BLT.

Which leads to the question of what that movement would look like. What would the pride parade be like? Or the flag?

So the next day I designed a flag (below) and the rainbow that was accepted by Threadless (above).

Do I know how to waste my New Year's Day or what?

What is Threadless?
If you're not familiar with Threadless, it's a tee shirt printing company that accepts submissions that the forum community votes on. The ones that score the highest have the best chance of being chosen by the Threadless Powers That Be to be printed.

At time of writing, it's up for two more days.

Click here to vote!


Update: Voting is closed, and I feel like it did pretty well. Not sure what the odds are that it'll get printed, but if it does I'll definitely let you know.