Month: December 2005

  • & Design

    During Tokyo Design Week, one of the booths at 100% Design that I quite liked but have failed to mention was by the design collective known as & Design. A reader recently me sent a link to their site, and it reminded me that I really need to write something about them. In the meantime,…

  • As You Were

    Back in the day, I used to do a little ezine called GEISHA, and one them was a guest issue, which included a contribution by James P. Wong. He’s just sent me word of a new video he’s put together called “As You Were.” Taped partly in Tokyo, you can watch the video here, and…

  • Idea 314

    Over the past month I’ve taken a break from my regular “This Week in Magazines” series of posts, and I’ll get back to them, but in the meantime let me mention that the new issue of IDEA (314) is out, featuring a look at Emigre. The magazine’s official site has more info, including plenty of…

  • The North Face X Surface to Air

    New Traveling Gas Shop collaboration between The North Face and Surface to Air. More pics and info in this Gas blog entry. Update (16/09/05): The original photo is no longer available.

  • Scooters

    Taken on one of the back streets of Harajuku, not far from the Final Home store.

  • Mario Kart Worldwide

    I’ve been having a blast with MARIO KART DS these past couple of days playing by myself, but oh man, it’s nothing like playing with other people. Today’s meetup was a bit of bust, with only Paul showing up, but we had a killer time playing MARIO KART DS. We tried a few rounds of…

  • Kubrick Meets Website Design

    Learn how to make a website, the PingMag way.

  • IC UC WC

    From Japan Today: Ryuichi Sakamoto, second from right, and experimental electronic music group Raster-Noton perform at the NTT InterCommunication Center to bring attention to the plight of the multimedia museum, which has been threatened with closure by sponsor NTT East. Patrick went to the show, and posted about it. Audrey and Yoshi of OK FRED…

  • Courrier Japon

    Tetsuya Ozaki’s latest OUT OF TOKYO column takes a look at the recently launched COURRIER JAPON magazine.

  • Gas Project Blog

    I never realized there was a bilingual Gas Project blog. Too bad images don’t seem to display properly in their RSS/Atom feeds. Link via Eternal Gaze.