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Month: March 2007

  • Paper Craft Super Mario

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    Make your own paper craft Super Mario characters! Just in time for SUPER PAPER MARIO, out next month on the Wii, and looking absolutely amazing (hopefully this will get me playing Wii games again). Link via Paper Forest.

  • Design Tide 2007 Launch Party

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    It’s been in my TAB badge for a few days now (in the sidebar), but I should point out that tonight sees an event at SuperDeluxe that will act as a preview to this year’s edition of Design Tide. The night will start off with announcements from the organizers, followed-up with PechaKucha Night-like presentations from…

  • Cosmic Wonder Free Press

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    Cosmic Wonder and Nieves collaborate on the launch of COSMIC WONDER FREE PRESS 1. This is not a free paper though — it can be purchased from Nieves online store. Link via Shift Blog. Update: I’ve been informed that the magazine is free if you pick it up at their stores.

  • Climbing the Frames

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    See that image? It’s from a fitness center in Ebisu called Illoiha, and this is their rock climbing practice wall. Via Tokyomango. Update (16/10/30): The image is no longer available.

  • Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza

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    I get a lot of mail from readers asking me to recommend hotels for a stay in Tokyo, and the only thing I can do is point them to this post. But let me add the Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza, which I just spotted on Gridskipper. Looks quite nice, and rooms start at $111. Read…

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    National Art Center, Tokyo Muji Tokyo Midtown You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • The State of Blogging in Japan: To Clast or Not to Clast

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    Ever since the announcement that Marxy was starting to blog “professionally” for the ad agency where he was already employed, the shit has quite literally hit the fan. Momus’ reaction was quite expected, but I’ve also had to comment and/or defend what Marxy has done in private emails, and I think it’s gotten to a…

  • Stylewise for March 2007

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    Martin Webb’s latest Stylewise column for THE JAPAN TIMES covers, among other things, COSMIC WONDER and MONOCLE.

  • This Week in Magazines

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    Two new magazines this week, starting with a new entry in the design field, DESIGN ADDICT (1). It looks like this one is more of a mook (the next issue is planned for October), but the interior is all magazine. Certain parts of it seem to marry the KU:NEL esthetic (soft photography) with that of…

  • The Post-Bubble Countryside

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    I think Alin can read my mind. For the past month or so I’ve been obsessing over PDF zines after having discovered the PDF-Mags site — it even lead to me bringing up the idea of producing a PauseTalk PDF zine at that last meeting, something I’ll talk about more in detail in a future…