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Month: June 2006

  • Hanakengo!

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    I’m not quite sure who Hanakengo are and what they do, except that they’re two Japanese girls, they were at Design Festa last month, and are now in Montreal and were recently featured on the cover of THE MONTREAL MIRROR, one of the city’s weekly guides. They’re white, sparkly and have zip-up genitals, they dress-up…

  • Combini Life

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    Want to know what you can find in Japan’s convenience stores? The Konbini Life blog has got you covered, with its writer chronicling everything he buys in them.

  • This Week in Magazines

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    Just in time for summer, BRUTUS (596) presents its guide to “Ice Cream & Summer Treats.” You get plenty of lists featuring all the best Japanese entries in various sweets categories (fruit-based, popsicles, traditional tastes, etc.) as well as special rankings and polls. It’s quite exhaustive, and they even include a list of Muji’s 12…

  • No More Neon?

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    My wife has been wanting a Neon pretty much ever since I got mine, and every time she’s asked around when at stores they’ve always come up with the same reply: currently sold out, or available only to new subscribers (but the former much more frequently than the latter). As her old phone is in…

  • Cow Books Image in Time

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    I finally got a hold of this week’s issue of TIME, that has the piece I wrote on Cow Books (“Brain Fodder“), and was surprised to see they ended up printing photos I had sent them. When I saw the piece online it didn’t include any images, so I just figured they had run the…

  • The Whispering of the Gods

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    Midnight Eye reviews Tatsushi Omori’s controversial film THE WHISPERING OF THE GODS, which was released last year independently from Japan’s distribution system to avoid censorship problems.

  • 21_21

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    PingMag has a fun piece up on the upcoming 21_21 Design Sight — a dream design project that brings together such luminaries as Issey Miyake, Taku Satoh, Naoto Fukasawa, and Tadao Ando. The logo, designed by Satoh, is now up on the project’s official site, ready to be played with (see what people are doing…

  • Oh! Mikey Night

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    Patrick brings news of an “Oh! Mikey Night” (well, series of nights, as it’s happening throughout July) where they will be screening some of the more adult-oriented episodes of the cult series. More info on Patrick’s Agenda. Speaking of OH! MIKEY, I saw bits from the new American adaptation, and I can tell you that…

  • Bandai Museum to Move

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    Remember the Bandai Museum I visited recently (see Flick photoset here)? Seems like it’s about to move into a new facility. Gunota reports Bandai Museum has announced it will close its Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture on August 31st. Bandai will open a brand new cultural facility, “Toytown Bandai Museum”, next year at Mibu, Tochigi Prefecture. Meanwhile,…

  • David Choe Jail Art

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    A couple of years ago, American comic artist David Choe was jailed in Tokyo for punching an undercover cop, and here is a gallery of the art he created while in solitary confinement, using whatever material he could get his hands on.