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teamLab, Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers © teamLab

TOKYO, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Approximately 100,000 people from overseas visited teamLab Planets in Toyosu, Tokyo, between December 9, 2022 and January 9, 2023. (*1)
Of the visitors across one month, around 60% , or 1 in 2 visitors, were non-residents visiting Japan (*1), and the number of visitors from overseas has tripled compared to the same month in 2019 (before COVID-19).

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Furthermore, according to a survey conducted by the museum, about 70% of the visitors from overseas knew about the museum before considering their trip to Japan, and there was a trend of the museum being one of the main purposes to visit Tokyo. (*2)

*1 From the official website tickets purchaser data (survey period: December 9, 2022 – January 9, 2023)
*2 From the visitor survey data (survey period: December 17, 2022 – January 10, 2023)

We will continue to provide people around the world an experience based on teamLab Planets’ concept, “Immerse your Body, and with Others, Become One with the World”.

From Wednesday, March 1, 2023 to Sunday, April 30, 2023, two works, Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers and Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People – Infinity, will feature cherry blossoms that bloom across the space, on view during the spring season only.

Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers, an artwork in which flowers bloom and change with the passage of time, and the universe of life spreads across the space, will be filled with cherry blossoms during this limited period. In the work Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People – Infinity, visitors walk in water and koi swim on the surface of the infinitely expanding water. When the koi collide with people, they turn into cherry blossoms and scatter.

[Works that will feature cherry blossoms]
Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers
teamLab, 2016-2018, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Artwork: https://planets.teamlab.art/tokyo/ew/fitfuof/
Video: https://youtu.be/FzJ5svgIueQ

A seasonal year of flowers bloom and change with time, life spreads out into the universe.
Lie down or sit still in the space and eventually your body floats and you dissolve into the artwork.

Flowers grow, bud, bloom, and in time, the petals fall, and the flowers wither and die. The cycle of birth and death continues for perpetuity.
The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the artwork in real time. As a whole, it is continuously changing, and previous visual states are never replicated. The universe at this moment in time can never be seen again.

Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People – Infinity
teamLab, 2016-2018, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Artwork: https://planets.teamlab.art/tokyo/ew/koi_and_people/
Video: https://youtu.be/SsRNptTOniw

Koi swim on the surface of water that stretches out into infinity. People can walk into the water.

The movement of the koi is influenced by the presence of people in the water and also other koi. When the fish collide with people they turn into flowers and scatter. Throughout the year, the flowers that bloom will change along with the seasons.

The trajectory of the koi is determined by the presence of people and these trajectories trace lines on the surface of the water.

The work is rendered in real time by a computer program. It is neither prerecorded nor on loop. The interaction between the viewer and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork. Previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur.

[Enjoy vegan ramen in an art space]
Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo, a vegan ramen restaurant from Kyoto, opened in October 2021 on the same premises as teamLab Planets. Diners can enjoy ramen in teamLab’s Reversible Rotation – Non-Objective Space artwork space, as well as the Table of Sky and Fire and One Stroke Bench outside of the restaurant. Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo also has vegan ice cream and various teas that are only available in Tokyo. The restaurant can be visited without entry to teamLab Planets.

Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo: https://vegan-uzu.com/pages/uzu-tokyo

[teamLab Planets TOKYO]

teamLab, Floating Flower Garden; Flowers and I are of the Same Root, the Garden and I are One © teamLab

teamLab Planets is a museum where you walk through water, and a garden where you become one with the flowers. There are four massive exhibition spaces and two gardens.

By immersing your entire body with other people in these massive artworks, the boundary between the body and the artwork dissolves. The self, others, and the world become continuous, and we explore a new relationship without boundaries between ourselves and the world.

Enter barefoot, immerse your body with others in the artwork spaces, and become one with the world.

[Exhibition details]
teamLab Planets TOKYO
Location: teamLab Planets TOKYO, 6-1-16 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo

[Opening hours]
January – April
Monday – Friday 10:00 – 20:00
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 9:00 – 21:00
*March 20 (Mon), March 22 (Wed) – March 24 (Fri) 9:00 – 21:00
*March 25 (Sat) – April 2 (Sun) 9:00 – 22:00
*April 29 (Sat), April 30 (Sun) 9:00 – 22:00
*Last entry 1 hour before closing

[Closed]
February 9 (Thu), March 2 (Thu), April 13 (Thu)

*Opening hours are subject to change. Please check the official website for the latest details.

Official website: https://planets.teamlab.art/tokyo/
teamLab Planets Highlight Video: https://youtu.be/oiQoe9Ow9o0
*teamLab Planets will be open in Toyosu, Tokyo until the end of 2023.

[Tickets]
Adult: 3,200 JPY
Junior high and high school students: 2,000 JPY
Children (4 to 12 years old): 1,000 JPY
3 years old and under: Free
Disability discount: 1,600 JPY

*From Saturday, April 1, 2023: ticket prices for weekends, public holidays, and dates with extended opening hours will change to the prices below.
Adult: 3,500 JPY
Junior high and high school students: 2,300 JPY
Children (4 to 12 years old): 1,300 JPY
3 years old and under: Free
Disability discount: 1,900 JPY

teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM Ticket Store: https://teamlabplanets.dmm.com

[Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19]
Please check the link below for details on the infection prevention measures implemented at teamLab Planets: https://teamlabplanets.dmm.com/covid-19

[Official HP/Social Media]
Official website: https://planets.teamlab.art/tokyo/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teamlab.planets/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TL.Planets/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/teamLabPlanets
#teamLabPlanets

[Food & Shop]
Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo: https://vegan-uzu.com/pages/uzu-tokyo
teamLab Flower Shop & Art
*Please check the official website for opening hours
*Closed on the same days as teamLab Planets
[Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (applicable to Food & Shop)]
・Implementation of regular cleaning and disinfection
・Seat disinfection after each customer
・Hand disinfection upon entry
・Restrictions on the number of people in the space
・Ensuring sufficient space between seats
・Employees wear masks
・Removal of tabletop items
・Temperature measurement

[Press kit]
https://goo.gl/tQXMLm

[PLANETS Co., Ltd.]
Established in 2017. Operates and manages the facilities of teamLab Planets TOKYO.
Location: Tokyo Nihonbashi Tower 10F, 2-7-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Takumi Nomoto

[teamLab]
teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab exhibitions have been held in cities worldwide, including New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Melbourne among others. teamLab museums and large-scale permanent exhibitions include teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless Shanghai, teamLab SuperNature Macao, and teamLab Massless Beijing, with more to open in cities including Abu Dhabi, Hamburg, Jeddah, and Utrecht.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Asia Society Museum, New York; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Amos Rex, Helsinki.

Website: https://www.teamlab.art/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/teamlab/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teamLab.inc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/teamLab_net
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/teamLabART

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Contact

[Inquiries regarding releases and interviews]
PLANETS Co., Ltd. Public Relations Department
E-mail: pr-info@planets.art
Interview: https://forms.gle/fAtnDKLpQKFME6XR9

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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Bernama) — Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, the world’s largest barbecue restaurant has unveiled a limited time offer, the Loaded Nacho Cheese Sausage, available beginning Feb 6.

From Feb 6 to April 30, the popular barbecue restaurant is taking a meaty, smoky, cheesy plate of nachos and combining it with its Legit. Texas. Barbecue. ™ to make the Loaded Nacho Cheese Kielbasa Sausage.

According to a statement, this indulgent sausage features Dickey’s premium, pit-smoked sausage stuffed with taco-seasoned beef, tortilla chips, and jalapeño beans with cheddar and pepper jack cheeses.

Chief executive officer of Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc, Laura Rea Dickey said the company was thrilled to introduce this new hand-crafted sausage in time for the big game.

“Dickey’s award-winning Kielbasa sausages are small batch, artesian sausages made exclusively by Dickeys for Dickey’s barbecue. We are sure the new Loaded Nacho Cheese Sausage will be a legendary winner.

“With the Super Bowl right around the corner, our newest addition is sure to be a crowd-pleasing favourite that’s perfect for a game day spread. Don’t miss out as the Loaded Nacho Cheese Kielbasa Sausage will only be available now through April,” she added.

The Dallas-based, family-run barbecue franchise has 550 locations across the United States and eight other countries.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Bernama) — Singapore-based tech startup Metadream’s recently launched next-gen social app Bondee, offers diverse and trendy avatars as well as novel interactive features.

According to Metadream in a statement, last week, Bondee was ranked as the #1 free app in the App Store.

“Founded by investors from the United States (US) and Australia, Metadream acquired the intellectual property rights of the app True.ly in May 2022 and made a creative and international transformation and gradually launched the app worldwide by the end of 2022,” it said.

In addition to Japan and South Korea as the product, R&D, and operational bases, there are three independent data centres in Singapore, Japan, and the US that were set up to ensure the safe use of products and meet the data security requirements of regional markets.

Metadream also plans to set up regional operation centres in Thailand, the Philippines, and other countries to meet the immediate demands of local users.

In Bondee, users can create trendy avatars and keep their friends posted on what they are up to, while also being able to express themselves freely by sharing their mood and status.

The social app also allows users to personalise their space, visit friends, and post comments as if they were actually living with them.

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‘World’s Most Famous Building’ Celebrates the Year of the Rabbit with Tower Lighting Ceremony, Musical Performance, Food Pop Ups, and Festive Displays on Observatory and in Fifth Avenue Windows

NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — The Empire State Building today kicked off celebrations for Lunar New Year with a tower lighting ceremony and music performance; festive pop-up with NYC food vendor Sheng Mary Bakery; a corner display on the building’s iconic 86^th Floor Observatory; and reveal of the Fifth Avenue Lobby window installation to honor the Chinese zodiac’s Year of the Rabbit.

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“We are pleased to continue our annual Lunar New Year celebration and spread good fortune to the Chinese community here in the United States, in China, and around the world,” said Jean-Yves Ghazi, president of the Empire State Building Observatory. “Lunar New Year is the perfect time for Chinese visitors to take in New York City’s best views and discover our reimagined Observatory Experience and its immersive exhibits as they celebrate this joyous holiday.”

For the first time since 2020, the Empire State Building held an in-person lighting ceremony to celebrate Chinese New Year and the Spring Festival alongside the Chinese Consul General of New York. The ceremony concluded with a traditional performance in the Observatory lobby.

ESB’s iconic Fifth Avenue Lobby windows were unveiled to feature dynamic imagery that celebrate the Chinese zodiac’s Year of the Rabbit, with the animal’s silhouette among colorful landscapes of Chinese lanterns, flowers, and trees, on display until Feb. 15. A dimensional corner photo display now graces the northwest corner of the 86^th Floor Observatory deck, with lanterns, blossoms and floral urns in a gold arch. Flushing’s Sheng Mary Bakery will reside on the building’s 86^th Floor to offer traditional Chinese treats to guests from Jan. 20–29 from open to 3 pm.

Tonight, New Yorkers can look skyward to see the Empire State Building’s world-famous tower lights lit up in red to honor Lunar New Year.

More information about the Empire State Building’s tower lights can be found online.

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_{“Beauty is about holistic wellness. We’ve researched the benefits of nutritional supplements for more than 15 years. Consumers not only want to look good—they want to feel good. Beauty starts from the inside out, and our latest research helps inform us on the future of nutritionals,” said Dr. Lucy Gildea, Chief Innovation Officer, Product & Science at Mary Kay. (Credit: Mary Kay Inc.)}

DALLAS, Jan 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Mary Kay Inc., a global leader in skin care innovation and nutritional science, recently investigated the benefits of a botanical leaf extract when included in nutritional drinks containing protein, fat, and fiber. The findings, which the Mary Kay Global Nutrition Research & Innovation team shared at the American Society for Nutrition’s Annual Conference, could have a significant impact on our understanding of botanical leaf extract rich in polysaccharides, flavonoids, alkaloids, and 1-deoxynojirimycin and other active components to lower glucose response and improve satiety in consumers.

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“Beauty is about holistic wellness,” said Dr. Lucy Gildea, Chief Innovation Officer, Product & Science at Mary Kay. “We’ve researched the benefits of nutritional supplements for more than 15 years. Consumers not only want to look good—they want to feel good. Beauty starts from the inside out, and our latest research helps inform us on the future of nutritionals.”

According to research by Mary Kay, the consumption of nutritional drinks with this extract produced a significantly lower postprandial glucose response compared to consumption of drinks without it. The data also indicated that this extract supports “low Glycemic Index” properties. In addition, subjects who consumed the drink also reported improved satiety.

“This is just one example of the amazing research and efforts of Mary Kay scientists,” said Jen Alfrey, Senior Director of Global Nutrition at Mary Kay. “Investigating ways to enhance health, increase wellness, and improve beauty through nutrition is a priority for the team.”

The research revealed is just the latest effort by Mary Kay to reinforce the brand’s long-standing commitment to advancing skin health, research and development, and nutrition. Mary Kay holds more than 1,600 patents for products, technologies, and packaging designs in its global portfolio.

About Mary Kay

One of the original glass ceiling breakers, Mary Kay Ash founded her dream beauty company in 1963 with one goal: enriching women’s lives. That dream has blossomed into a multibillion-dollar company with millions of independent sales force members in nearly 40 countries. As an entrepreneurship development company, Mary Kay is committed to empowering women on their journey to economic independence through education, mentorship, advocacy, networking, and innovation. Mary Kay is dedicated to investing in the science behind beauty and manufacturing cutting-edge skincare, color cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and fragrances. Mary Kay believes in enriching lives today for a sustainable tomorrow, partnering with organizations from around the world focusing on promoting business excellence, supporting cancer research, advancing gender equality, protecting survivors from domestic abuse, beautifying our communities, and encouraging children to follow their dreams. Learn more at marykayglobal.com, find us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or follow us on Twitter.

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Contact

Mary Kay Inc. Corporate Communications
marykay.com/newsroom
972.687.5332 or media@mkcorp.com

Source : Mary Kay Inc.

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