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Month: September 2006

  • The Green Man

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    Would you buy the new DS Tingle game from this man? Update: This shot was taken on Saturday, while I was out in Akihabara, but for some reason Flickr wouldn’t post the entry.

  • Jun Takahashi in Nylon for Guys

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    Marxy has a piece on Jun Takahashi (Under Cover) in the latest of NYLON FOR GUYS (Fall 2006). It should be online soon enough.

  • Graphic Wave 2006

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    Yesterday I stopped by the Ginza Graphic Gallery on the first day of the terrific new show they have on, “Graphic Wave 2006” (TAB entry), which covers the works of graphic designers/art directors Masayoshi Kodaira, Naomi Hirabayashi, Manabu Mizuno, and Eiji Yamada. The basement floor plays host to some of their past works, but the…

  • Kami-Robo in Wired

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    My friend Lisa has a write-up on Tomohiro Yasui’s Kami-Robo — which Boing Boing‘s Cory Doctorow mistakenly describes as “a hot new toy line in Japan” — in the latest issue of WIRED. Also, she wrote a piece on the Gundam museum for an upcoming issue of GIANT ROBOT, which we visited together, and it…

  • Rezident 012

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    The Rezidents get physical, as seen through this prototype by Sonia Chow.

  • Shin Tanaka

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    Shin Tanaka has been getting quite a few mentions around the blogosphere of late (including on this site), and leave it to PingMag to score an interview with him.

  • Ping Party

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    PingMag reminds us about their free party/festival tomorrow (Sunday) at Yoyogi park. Looks like they’ll be selling special tees as well!

  • 46-Oku-Nen no Koi

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    THE JAPAN TIMES has an interesting review of Takashi Miike’s latest film, 46-OKU-NEN NO KOI, in which Mark Schilling addresses the changes in the director’s recent works. Admittedly, I haven’t seen any of his recent films, the latest one being IZO, and I was only able to get through half of that.