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Month: January 2005

  • Tea Room Alice

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    Patrick makes it to Tea Room Alice, a maid-themed cafe in Nakano, and lives to blog about it. Too bad he wasn’t allowed to take pictures inside. It’s true that these sort of cafes are popping up a lot, especially in Akihabara. I saw one featured on TV a while back, and the maid outfits…

  • A Tour of Japanese Cooking Magazines

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    I like food, and I like magazines, and this week’s METROPOLIS (565) offers us a tour of a few Japanese food-related magazines, from the shufu (“housewife”) staples of ORANGE PAGE and LETTUCE CLUB to RYORI OUKOUKO (“Cuisine Kingdom”), aimed at people working in the food industry. As is usual with METROPOLIS (and an annoyance), the…

  • Archigram

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    “Archigram” is a new experimental architecture exhibition happening at Art Tower Mito‘s Contemporary Art Gallery. Looks like it’ll make for an excellent complement to the current Mori Art Museum “Archilab” exhibition, which I quite enjoyed. Archigram is the name of a group of experimental British architects active from the 60s to the early 70s, and…

  • Pagyaru

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    Huh? Pagyaru, schoolgirls who hang out on the streets of places like Tokyo’s minor Mecca Shibuya while decked out in stuffed animal suits, are the latest “breed” of trendy teen in Japan, but their burning yearning to be accepted is also making them vulnerable conniving kid capitalists, according to Weekly Playboy (2/1). Pagyaru derive their…

  • iPod x GAS

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    Some very nice iPod accessories from GAS. A bit pricey though. Link via Jesper.

  • How to Give a Good Presentation

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    In his latest OUT OF TOKYO column, Ozaki Tetsuya completely blasts the presentations made by Kaikai Kiki’s Aoshima Chiho and Takano Aya at the “What’s Good Conference” in Hong Kong. Honestly, I have to agree with what he says — if you’re not going to play the game, then best not to go and end…

  • Radio OK Fred in Limbo

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    Bad news for Radio OK Fred. As you know, the two shows that were uploaded haven’t been available for a while now, and it seems like there’s no clear solution to our problem. It’s all about the bandwidth, and the OK FRED server just can’t take it. We have a new show waiting to be…

  • A New Office

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    Momus is making me jealous with his new office.

  • Project the Projectors 04-05

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    Some Tokyo Geidai sponsored events of interest. Did you know that the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music has a department of Inter Media Art? Professors include Fujihata Masaki (who featured in the latest issue of ART iT magazine), however this apparently doesn’t mean that “cutting-edge art” — the department’s Japanese name —…

  • Nagoya Apple Store

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    The 3rd Apple Store in Japan, this time in Nagoya, opens this Saturday. The grand opening date of the Nagoya Sakae (Japan) store–Jan. 22nd –has been posted on Apple’s Japanese language Web page, but (as of 3 a.m.) isn’t mentioned on either the English language version of the store page, or Apple’s main Retail page.…