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Month: February 2007

  • My Private Tokyo: Nakameguro

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    Remember that “My Private Tokyo” corner I did on Nakameguro for the NHK World TV show TOKYO EYE? I’ve finally gotten around to putting up the segment on YouTube. This is the first time I’ve done something like this, so be gentle.

  • Soon Appearing in Pen

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    A writer and a photographer from PEN magazine dropped by Cafe Pause yesterday to do a short interview with me and take some photos that should appear in an upcoming issue (out in April I think). Looks like they will also mention PauseTalk. It’s part of a feature on Tokyo favorites, and it seems that…

  • J-Select Shows You How to Blog

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    I get quoted — along with Patrick and Sonia — in the current issue of J-SELECT (Vol. 54 No. 2) in a piece on blogging. It’s sort of funny that the three of us who were contacted for the article all happen to be Canadian.

  • Governor Kisho Kurokawa

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    When he’s not busy designing massive art centers — that would be the National Art Center, Tokyo — architect Kisho Kurokawa is dabbling in politics, with a run in the next Tokyo gubernatorial race.

  • Recycling Uniqlo

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    Uniqlo gets a conscience. Shoppers at the popular Uniqlo clothing chain will soon be able to drop off their used Uniqlo-brand clothes to be shipped to refugee camps or reprocessed for industrial use. Read the entire THE JAPAN TIMES article here.

  • Automated PechaKucha Night Presentations

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    Quick, you have a presentation at PechaKucha Night and haven’t had time to prepare. What to do? Oh, just head over to Delicious.salted.com, which will create a PKN-formatted (20 slides) presentation from your last twenty Del.ico.us bookmarks.

  • Shigeru Ban Interview

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    You’ll find a video interview on YouTube done by Designboom with architect Shigeru Ban.

  • Nagi Noda + Osamu Tezuka Collaboration T-Shirt at Uniqlo

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    I stopped by the Uniqlo flagship store in Ginza yesterday — the one designed by KDa — and picked up the t-shirt you see pictured above for my wife (they only have them for women), a collaboration tee between Nagi Noda and Osamu Tezuka. It’s a page from Tezuka’s PRINCESS KNIGHT (RIBBON NO KISHI) manga,…