Then head to the carnival-like Dotonbori area and wander beneath fun-house decorations — giant crab, blowfish, dragons — while snacking on takoyaki (fried balls of octopus).
Art and science are colliding – simultaneously, albeit in different forms – all over the world, and beneath the fun (or funny, or beautiful, or simple) exterior, it feels that something important is going on.
But the funk beneath the fun is no joke.
The dark undercurrents beneath the fun and games is only thinly disguised, of course.
Their mission statement is filled with words that invite daydreams, "Symbiosis intends to facilitate peak experiences through a synaesthesia of art, music, transformational learning, and sustainable living integrated into an unparalleled extravaganza of fun beneath the starry skies".
That beneath all those fun pints and Jamie Oliver kitchen utensils runs a kind of force.
Beneath all the fun and frolic, they're capable of redemption and affection, as Chekhov's people were.
Speaking of grasshoppers Keats says: "...he has never down with his delights, for when tired out with fun, he rests beneath some pleasant weed".
He and five fellow gearheads, including an engineer and a lawyer who likes going into the desert to shoot computers for fun, were huddled beneath the dying hulk of the vehicle, a 1997 Geo Tracker, in a nondescript warehouse.
Yet, spend some time getting to know Peek, unlocking its finger signs and flat symbols, and the interface transforms — or rather unfolds, revealing hidden depths of fun and functionality beneath an intentionally minimalist exterior.
It indicates that beneath Javerbaum's notions of fun simmers an outlook on life that would gratify Norman Vincent Peale and his tubthumping for positive thinking.
