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Month: March 2005

  • The Neverending Cold

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    Would you believe I have another cold? This is the fourth time I get a cold in 2005. This time it’s a cough, which is just what I needed to accompany my lovely kafunsho (pollen allergy) symptoms — this year marks the first time I’m affected. The fun never stops.

  • Wired Japan

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    There used to be a Japanese version of the magazine WIRED, with its own editorial content, and Oyayubizoku offers up a desktop montage (pictured above) of some of its original covers. For those of you who are both fans of Wired and fans of Japan, I’m posting a desktop I made years ago after coming…

  • Kenzo Tange

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    The architect Kenzo Tange died today. The picture above, by Lil, is of one of his designs, the United Nations University in Aoyama.

  • Comments Problem

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    There was a problem with leaving comments on the site, but it should be fixed now. It’s related to me trying to import all my old MT moblog posts into my main feed, and for some reason it’s not wanting to do it properly (although I’ve done it in the past with no problems on…

  • Omotesando

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    The current ad display on Omotesando.

  • Shirokuma

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    SHIROKUMA is a beautiful flash-based online photographic magazine, and today marks the start of their first gallery exhibition, “Idle Network.” This is Shirokuma’s first gallery exhibition, after over two years on the scene as an online photographic magazine (http://srkm.org). The expressive power of photography was always a topic of concern to us, since photos easily…

  • Akira Exhibition 2005

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    Julia Barnes sends in this bit of info on the upcoming show of artist AKIRA at her Nakaochiai Gallery. Tokyo-based artist AKIRA presents his latest series of oil on canvas and board take on an imaginary world made only of blocks and numerous human figures. The landscape situates the artist in a stream of time,…

  • Shift 100

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    I’m late on this, but the 100th issue of online design magazine SHIFT is up. While you’re there, be sure to enter the draw to win some work by cover artists of the previous issues.

  • The Cube Screen Savers

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    Get thee to the Cube WIRED site (it promotes Nissan’s Cube van) and find a free download of a rather nice screen saver by Groovisions (and 3 other Japanese creators, with some more to be added later). The site has them for both Windows and Mac users, and also features an interview and profile of…

  • New TSiG Blogger: Yuki!

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    The Tokyo Style in Gothenburg (TSiG) blog now has a new blogger on the Tokyo side. Yuki, who has her own rockin’ blog over at Kissui.net, is also an editor at Tokyo Art Beat (TAB), and it’s great to have her aboard. I’m glad to see the TSiG joint hopping again!