Month: February 2006

  • This Week in Magazines

    The latest issue of IDEA (315) features a rather nice gallery of drawings by Aquirax Uno, an artist I wasn’t familiar with at all. BRUTUS (588) sets out to learn from geniuses (“Meet the Geniuses”) in a feature that I found to be a bit too arbitrary. The latest PEN (170) is all about design…

  • Aoyama Book Center

    The Aoyama Book Center cares about good Japanese design, and you should too!

  • Curious QP

    I love that Patrick continues to search the city for signs of QP. His latest moblog find (what you see here) is a bit of a strange one (found in Minami-Asagaya). Update: And while on the topic of street tags, Patricks points us to CBCNET‘s photolog, TANK.

  • Missing Pages

    I mentioned the works of Tokyo-based Canadian video artist Jerome Olivier a while back, and he lets me know that his 24-minute short film, “Missing Pages (amended version),” an interesting motion/photo mix that he describes as “fotomation,” is now completed. You can view the opening 7 minutes on his site.

  • Signal to Noise

    Luc Meier of Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland, sends word of the upcoming “Signal to Noise – Audio Swiss Japan” tour, to hit a few cities in Japan (Tokyo, Yamaguchi, Kyoto, Osaka, and Nagoya) in March (3-17), and bringing together avant-guard electronic artists Guenter Mueller, Jason Kahn, Norbert Moeslang, Tomas Korber, and Christian…

  • The Twisted Genius of Momus

    Momus gets a write-up (registration required after a week) in today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES, courtesy of Martin Webb — and I can assure you that Martin looks just as good in real life as he does in that picture Momus put up.

  • Magazines at Cafe Pause

    I was talking with the owner of Cafe Pause earlier tonight, and convinced him that it would be a good idea to have some nice magazines at the cafe for customers to browse. So we headed down to Junkudo, and I selected the latest issues of the following 16 magazines, which are now on display…

  • Tokyo Blog #1

    David (or Mr. Makuremu) just let me know that a Google search for “tokyo blog” reveals my site at the top spot. Yeah, I’m #1!