Month: May 2007
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After Leon, There Was Zino
Marxy takes a look at ZINO, a new men’s magazine that will look very familiar to readers of LEON (a magazine he covered at the Clast blog a few weeks ago). For all those dirty old Japanese men who are sick of seeing that human chunk of Italian ham Girolamo Panzetta on the cover of…
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Juliana Vol. 5
This month’s edition of Tokyo Fun Party’s “Juliana” (Vol. 5) at Soft is coming up: May 27, 19:00-23:00. The Juliana family (SoccerBoy + KazuNoco + Digiki) welcomes guest DJs MADEMOISELLE YULIA and GALBITCH.
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The Many Views of the Nakagin Capsule Tower
Tokyo-based architect Steve Lidbury sends in this great montage of the Nakagin Capsule Tower. Catch it now before it’s gone!
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Magazines: A Historical Journey
Momus is, no surprise, a magazine pervert, and he communes at the temple in Shimokitazawa known as Dorama. He offers confession for the AIGA online journal.
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The Pakuri of New Order
Marxy covers the latest case of pakuri — “the unprincipled use of creative elements from someone else in a similar context as the original without self-acknowledgment of the borrowing” — from Japan, this time New Order’s new DVD “homage” to photographer Ryuji Miyamoto’s “Tokyo 1995” photo.
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Nakagin Capsule Tower No More
I’m usually fine with Tokyo’s chaotic path of renewal, but this is sad. Kisho Kurokawa’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower is scheduled to be demolished and replaced by a new 14-story tower. The Metabolist capsule building consists of 140 units attached to a central core, articulating the ideology behind the Metabolist movement of the 1960s and…
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This Week at Gridskipper
Souvenir from Tokyo Steve Lidbury’s Retail Tokyo Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno! You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).