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Month: October 2006

  • Tokyo Design Week According to Jean Snow

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    How’s that for a post title? Quite a few of you have been emailing me asking for tips, suggestions, and recommendations regarding the upcoming Tokyo Design Week (November 1-5, for the most part) — you know, that big-ass celebration of design that brings together the combined forces of Tokyo Designer’s Week, 100% Design Tokyo, Design…

  • Retired Weapons Calendar 2007

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    Again this year, the Retired Weapons project is producing a beautiful calendar that includes the sort of imagery you’d expect to see from them. These are made-to-order, and the deadline for orders is November 25, with the calendar itself selling for 3000 yen.

  • Chris Duncan Installation

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    Nakaochiai Gallery‘s Julia sent me this image (courtesy of Ashley Rawlings) of the current Chris Duncan exhibition, “Playing Fields.” Truly a striking installation. Here’s a link to a review of the show from THE JAPAN TIMES.

  • PingMag Vs. Dr. Nakamats

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    PingMag interviews the one and only Dr. Nakamats — if you’ve never heard of him, prepared to be wowed by this excentric genius.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Tokyo International Film Festival 2006 Burton Tokyo You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Chaotic Circus

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    See Kaoru Tsunoda‘s “Chaotic Circus” installation in action (link to video). Via Core77.

  • Tokyo International Film Festival 2006

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    THE JAPAN TIMES looks at this year’s edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, which opens tomorrow (October 21). Update: A report on the opening day.

  • No Lumines Live in Japan?

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    Where the hell is LUMINES LIVE? The Xbox Live Arcade game has been available for download since Wednesday, but it’s still not available in the XBLA download section every time I check (which is ridiculously often). I want my LUMINES LIVE! I even picked up some Microsoft Points from the combini earlier in the week…

  • Ian Lynam Site Update

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    Tokyo-based graphic designer Ian Lynam has revamped his site — plenty of lovely things to peruse. Also, if you weren’t aware, he’s been contributing regularly to PingMag over the past year, his latest piece being on the graffiti zine LOST, and the LA graffiti scene in general.

  • New Metal Death Vol. 1

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    Even more gig news for tonight, this time from my man Takashi, Mr. Tokyo Fun Party himself. He says that the Electric Eel Shock, “probably THE best heavy metal band of our ear,” are playing, and that it’s very rare for them to play in Japan. Catch the gig at Zher The Zoo in Yoyogi…