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Month: February 2005

  • One Week & Three Items

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    Jesper is organizing an exhibition for some of the creations of Kouichi Okamoto called “One Week & Three Items” in Gothenburg, Sweden. Here’s some more info: Next Century Modern & Tokyo Style in Gothenburg presents the exhibition One Week & Three Items by Japanese music artist and designer KOUICHI OKAMOTO. Three items are exhibited: 1)…

  • Shopping in Tokyo

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    Momus is back in town, and he has a new audio blog up: “Shopping in Tokyo.” I notice he bought the watch I’ve been eyeing for months now. D’oh.

  • Aoyama Street Art

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    A sign in Aoyama, in front of the Spiral building.

  • Japan Media Arts Festival

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    Been wanting to mention this here for a while now, and I’m finally reminded of it by this REALTOKYO entry: The festival is held for the eighth time this year, and as an art fan I’m again most interested in the Art division. The Grand Prize this year goes to France-based Electronic Shadow, who create…

  • The Feeds

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    I’ve been wanting to use the new “Page” feature of WP 1.5 to list the feeds, but I’m having a slight problem — I think I know why, just need to play around with some stuff. In the meantime, here they are: RSS Atom LiveJournal TB.Grafico (Flickr) Please note that the RSS and Atom feeds…

  • Sticker Post

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    A post with stickers in Aoyama.

  • Cold Elephants

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    Even these little Sato elephants standing in front of a Heiwado pharmacy are cold.

  • Japanese Names Policy

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    I haven’t pointed it out, but you might have noticed that I’ve recently been writing Japanese names in the Western order (family name last). I’ve always preferred to use the Japanese way, since that’s how I encounter most of these names, but as my writings outside of this site need to use the Western way,…

  • Record Shopping in Japan

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    A guide to record shopping in Japan. Link via Gridskipper.

  • KDDI Designing Studio

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    KDDI (the company behind mobile phone provider AU) will be launching the KDDI Designing Studio in Harajuku on March 4, and this will be accompanied by Gas sponsored special events featuring the design collection Tomato. “YOU-ME-WHO?” installation, which will start March 4 (until March 28) A talk session with members of Tomato, on March 6…