Month: February 2004

  • Matt Fraction

    Matt Fraction, one of the founders of too-cool-for-school design house MK12 (check the site for tons of cool works), as well as a comic creator (LAST OF THE INDEPENDANTS) is in Tokyo to participate in various panels, one of them this coming Tuesday night at the Ginza Apple Store (along with Lobo founder Mateus de…

  • Kon Satoshi's Paranoia Agent

    I just watched the first episode of Kon Satoshi’s (PERFECT BLUE, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, TOKYO GODFATHERS) new series, his first stab at TV, PARANOIA AGENT, and is it ever good. Like his films, the realism of the environments is always at the forefront (even for MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, he’s quite precise about the various film eras he…

  • Nakano Broadway

    Boing Boing has a post up about a feature on Nakano Broadway at the Tokyo Q site. It’s basically an otaku heaven. I’ve been there a few times, and ended up picking up a few things. Patrick was here last night for a sukiyaki dinner at my place, and he had brought some meat from…

  • Winksite

    I’ve recently become aware of WINKsite, a service that lets you create sites for mobile phones, moblog, and lots of other things. I’ve been wanting to create a version of this site that would be accessible on mobile phones for a while now, and this seems like a quick and easy way to do it.…

  • Kusama Yayoi

    From THE JAPAN TIMES: Visitors wander through “Kusamatrix” by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during a media preview in Tokyo on Friday. This is the new exhibition at Roppongi Hill’s Mori Art Museum.

  • Shots in Tokyo and Mirrorball Japan

    The latest RES Alert newsletter included info on the following two events happening in the Tokyo area, one of them this weekend. SHOTS IN TOKYO Ex’Realm Cafe & Gallery Harajuku Jingumae 1-12-6, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 February 7-8th, 2004 (Sat-Sun), 13.00- 21.00 In advance of a Japan feature in the upcoming Spring issue of the UK-based…

  • Xbox in Japan = Desperate

    If you buy a special edition DEAD OR ALIVE Xbox next month, you’ll get “an extra-special bonus — a dakimakura, or “hugging pillow,” that features a life-size, front-and-back print of teenage character Kasumi in a skimpy bikini.” Read the Wired News article to find out more about the Xbox’s target audience in Japan.

  • Cleaning

    A cleaning machine. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.