Month: March 2005

  • Radio OK Fred 04

    Radio OK Fred 04 is now up!

  • The Latest Gas

    The latest from Gas. The next Gas Book (19) is on Jun Takahashi (designer behind the Undercover fashion brand) and Madsaki. Out March 28. They are producing Undercurrent, a clothing brand that collaborates with various musicians. The first series is by Mooog Yamamoto (Buffalo Daughter), Pardon Kimura, and MAGDRON (M.A.G.M.A.) Hello Gas Art has some…

  • Zoren & Johan Exhibition

    Currently at Depot: Fashion pages inspired by ancient intelligence in southamerican, from tokyo based photographer duo zoren gold & minori murakami. They’ll show you around 10 new artworks. Johan will show you 1 new artwork and some past works. 【ZOREN & MINORI profile】 German photographer zoren gold and japanese graphic artist minori murakami started their…

  • Diamond Project

    Julia Barnes of the Nakaochiai Gallery sends in the following: THANK YOU ART DAY Wed 9 MARCH 9am-12pm NAKAOCHIAI Gallery will be serving COLDSTOP herb tea and giving away photographs to the 54 participants of the DIAMOND PROJECT taken by SAN FRANCISCO based artist CLINT TANIGUCHI. (www.39art.com for further events) The participants were asked to…

  • Darsh

    Digiki (along with Monsieur Darsh) has just released the Darsh single “Cash,” which you can download here. Have at it!

  • TSiG Blog

    The TSiG Blog is back! The Tokyo side is still on hiatus, but the Swedish side is up and running. The picture above is from a post on the Kouichi Okamoto exhibition, “One Week & Three Items.”

  • Tokyo Bookstores

    While I’m clearing up some notes, here are a couple of bookstores I keep wanting to check out. Hacknet Pictured above, this bookstore is in Daikanyama. They’re also behind the book sections at Sign and Claska, and have a couple of shops in Osaka. 1-30-10 West Ebisu Utrecht Another attractive bookshop in the vicinity. 2-1-1-2F…

  • A Few Magazine Notes

    Earlier this week I was at Junkudo (the big bookstore in Ikebukuro) for my regular magazine browsing session, and I took some notes for possible posts (or things I wanted to get more info on), but never got around to writing them. I’ll do that now, just to put it out there, and for later…

  • Sakuraya

    The Ikebukuro branch of the Sakuraya electronics chain, opposite the east exit of the station.

  • Taxis

    A few taxis, waiting in front of Ikebukuro station.