Month: August 2006

  • Japan Arcades Still Booming

    This week’s issue of NEWSWEEK has a piece on the popularity of arcades in Japan, mixed in with some social commentary on the disaffected youth that play the games.

  • Mikey the Star Man

    More Mikey goodness from Patrick!

  • The King of Games

    Oh man, I am so in love with all the tees from The King of Games — a brand that creates cool remixes of Nintendo properties — and I am so getting the 20th anniversary Legend of Zelda tee!

  • Alexander Gelman Exhibition

    As of today I’m on holidays, and one of the things I look forward to seeing this week is the new show at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, “THE ALEXANDER GELMAN EXHIBITION: NEW YORK CONNECTION” (until August 28). Gelman himself will give a talk on August 24 (18:30-20:00) at the gallery.

  • Order Poppas Early

    Chin Music Press is about to release their first novel, LAST OF THE RED HOT POPPAS, and from this post on the CMP blog, it looks like another terrific release. They’ve just launched a site for the book, and are now taking pre-orders.

  • Aqua for Sale

    When I ran this image from Yuki on the site a while back it got a lot of good feedback, and it’s good to see that she’s decided to sell prints of it. Update (16/10/16): The image is no longer available.

  • WDW

    A new WDW tee collection on display at Beams Street in Ikebukuro.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

    Leica Ginza Onitsuka Tiger Tokyo Paper Sky Visits Akihabara Tokyo Underground You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Photo of the Week

    This new “Photo of the Week” in METROPOLIS is by Katsuyoshi Ueno, of the the Yasukuni Shrine’s Mitama Festival. Update (16/10/16): The image is no longer available.

  • Technical Help

    I have a little technical question, hoping some WordPress wiz can help me with. Is there a way to remove all signs of commenting on WP “pages” (not to be confused with regular posts). I know you can turn of commenting on them, but you still get something like this: Comments No comments yet. Sorry,…