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PauseTalk Tonight
(May 12)
Just a reminder that due to the Golden Week holiday, tonight (May 12) marks this month’s edition of PauseTalk at Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro. Start time is 20:00, as always.
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Art Space Tokyo in The Guardian
(May 12)
ART SPACE TOKYO gets a very nice piece in THE GUARDIAN.
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This Week in Magazines
(May 10)
BRUTUS (639) asks “How do you live?” and reports with a look at the ways people find to make their homes what they are. I tend to be quite fascinated by these peaks into people’s homes (an obsession I share with the way people work as well), and so I love this sort of feature. [...]
PingMag: Yujin
(May 10)
PingMag interviews capsule toy company Yujin. I was amazed to find out they come up with 25 new product ideas a month!
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Omodaka
(May 9)
Video directed by Hiroshi Kizu, featuring dancer Masako Yasumoto. From Warren Ellis’ blog:
OMODAKA is the name of the project developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics. It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory.
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This Week at MoCo Loco
(May 9)
My weekly Tokyo post at MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Takumi’s Mini Chimney AM humidifier, Elecom’s EGG MOUSE, and Tokujin Yoshioka’s Heaven chair.
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New Art Space Tokyo Site Offers Art Maps
(May 8)
Chin Music Press has made a major update to the promotional site for ART SPACE TOKYO, now including a section that will offer the art maps found in the book as downloadable PDFs (a new one every two weeks or so). The maps are absolutely beautiful, and it’s great that they’re offering them for download [...]
Gozi
(May 8)
Tokyo-based fashion designer Gozi has launched a site for both her Gozi label and UMI-1 label.
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Neojaponisme: Insulation
(May 7)
Our latest “Ask an Architect” column with architect Keiji Ashizawa is now up over at Neojaponisme, this time covering the topic of insulation.
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Forty Years From Now
(May 7)
Marxy’s new album, FORTY YEARS FROM NOW, is now out! I personally love it, but don’t take my word for it, go and check out the first single, “Cat vs. Mouse,” that also features vocals from Kiiiiiii’s UT. This post at the META no TAME blog includes links to some of the physical stores that [...]
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