The next thing we have to do.
Sort through the picked up trash.
Arranging important trash in the room, 2 men work over their plans for a book.

Illustration: Tomoki Kurokawa

I try to check inside the garbage bag.
Well-known illustrator’s sketch. Photographer’s failed prints. Geometric diagram. Artist’s sketch. Someone’s yearbook. Colorful cloth. Designer’s notes and drawing. Certain famous actress’s panties (?). An invitation card. Dumped name card. Sort of rare record jacket (empty inside). Nicely smudged board paper. Old portrait? Receipt. Proposal. Writer’s rough draft. Cute wrapping paper. Brochure of a concert. 10 years of new year cards.

Illustration: Tomoki Kurokawa

Trashed outtakes are a gold mine.
“Treasures are inside the waste. “ by Shintaro Katsu dedicated to Maboroshi no Meiban Kaiho Doumei.
Luckily I got a quite old hard disc discarded outside of the well-known architectural office. There might be treasures inside the disc. A condom. I’ll try look through the electric microscope. Kid’s war drawing. There are soldiers drawn cramped on the cut out note. The appearance of the note gives a clue that it’s been 20 years passed.

K “Now we’ve got everything here.”
2 “Tell me, what’s next?”
K “Obviously, we’ll edit.”
2 “Edit how?”
K “Explosive message and enthusiastic collage.”
2 “Can amateurs do it?”
K “Yes, we will do it.”
2 “SDP ?”
K “I already have an idea for the title.”
2 “Ho ho?”
K “As a re-collage of images like gems, the books title will be GEMPEG, which is like GEM + JPEG.”
2 “What’s a JPEG anyway?”
K “I’ll explain to you. It’s a computer terms. A JPEG is a form of image with generally high versatility.”
2 “I don’t get it, but I like it. It’s easy to pronounce, GEMPEG.”
K “GEMPEG”

Illustration: Tomoki Kurokawa

2 “Now, how do you make the book?”
K “You mean conceptually?”
2 “Yeah, what’s the message?”
K “Well, it’s something like ‘Throw Away Your Books, Run into the Streets!’”
2 “Even we’re gonna make it from now!?”
K “You’re right. But there are many problems in the world. There is a whole heap of problems, that’s why we will stack books.”
2 “Will messages come forth?”
K “There are messages falling out around.”
2 “Quicky?”
K “Feed Quicky on the message!”
2 “R.I.P. Quicky”
K “No no, let’s get serious.”
2 “WAR IS OVER. IF YOU WANT IT?”
K “Well, are there any wars lately?”
2 “Don’t know.”
K “We don’t watch the news.”

2 “Yeah, do you know what’s been on the war report lately?”
K “I don’t see it in the paper.”
2 “But there might be a war somewhere.”
K “It could be just never reported on TV.”
2 “It could be just unapprised.”
K “Peace is something like an inextricable puzzle ring.”
2 “How argumentative Izumiya is.”
K “Who is Izumiya?”

K “Argumentative performances are rarely accepted. Let’s appeal to their senses.”
2 “Then let’s ware a helmet written with the word ‘SENSITIVE’.”
K “Haha, good idea!”
2 “And I was surprised the other day that at my job no one can get into the restroom without an ID. You know it’s just a bathroom!”
K “And did you wet your underpants?”
2 “A bit… But you can do nothing outside without ID.”

Graphic: Hisashi Okawa

K “I think I’ll go get implanted with an ID soon.”
2 “It’s impossible for Zakuians to get pierced and tattooed physically.”
K “And the rest is computer love.”
2 “Recent trend.”
K “I don’t discriminate.”
2 “You know the idol girl is going out with Nightron 2500.”
K “That’s a lie.”
2 “Yeah, both of their management offices are big.”

Graphic: Hisashi Okawa

K “If you blame on materializing of love, love letters are bad?”
2 “They are papers. But it’s never mind.”
K “First of all, we’re too late to realize the problem for regulations on the paper media.”
2 “There are definitely too many doubts.”
K “You know Kleenex are heavily consumed every night.”
2 “Yeah.”
K “Paper + message. Scary. It’s like SHIH TZU.”

Illustration: Tomoki Kurokawa

K “SHIH TZU is missing since they left bombs on the election campaign posters.”
2 “Oh, they could have been…”