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Month: May 2007

  • Shigeru Ban’s Artek Pavilion

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    MONOCLE has a video up that takes a look at Shigeru Ban’s Artek pavilion, from the recent Milano Salone.

  • Polypunk 18

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    A busy few weeks for Digiki: a bunch of events, a new album, and now a new POLYPUNK (18), available for download now.

  • This Week in Magazines

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    PEN (198) treats us men to a cooking class (that’s what the feature is called, literally “men’s cooking class”), with lots of very tasty recipes, as well as a roundup of a few eat-out ideas. STUDIO VOICE (378) has finally moved beyond its anniversary celebrations and tackles something new, this time with a “Movie Guide…

  • Around JEANSNOW.NET

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    Instead of re-posting stuff around the various sites that occupy the JEANSNOW.NET domain (Cafe Pause, PauseTalk, M31), instead I’ll update you here once a week or so with a post that lists what’s been added. Tonight’s PauseTalk is cancelled, so I’ve posted an update on a few things. Also, I picked up the following magazines…

  • Crust and Dirt in Tokyo

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    The Nakaochia Gallery gets out of its hood and into Apple Store Shibuya for its next event. INSTANT DRAWING MACHINE – Live performance Apple Store, Shibuya Sunday, May 13, 6-7pmFrom 13 May—9 June 2007, the art duo of Crust and Dirt will touch down in Tokyo. This pair will be bringing their science-fiction art to…

  • Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno

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    Patrick‘s new book, JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRL INFERNO, is now on sale. Get it now, or he won’t like you anymore.

  • PauseTalk Cancellation

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    It looks like scheduling the next edition at the tail-end of the Golden Week was not the best of ideas. The May 7 edition of PauseTalk is cancelled, but we’ll be back next month, June 4.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Hitotoki Tokyo Guide You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • TB.Pensar 005

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    What is TB.Pensar? Find out here. It’s Golden Week — or GW, as the cool kids’s call it — the weather’s nice, and as a result my mail correspondence and postings here have suffered. But as you’ve probably noticed, I took the day to catch up on things, hence the 12 new posts today (including…

  • Naked Tokyo: 07 [Portraits]

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    The Naked Tokyo Collective is set to produce the one-day “Naked Tokyo: 07 [Portraits]” exhibition at SuperDeluxe. The Naked Tokyo Collective applies its signature mix of shock and serenity, outrageous tableaux and seductive views, to the art of contemporary portraiture. In considering the theme: Contemporary Portraiture from Tokyo, Naked Tokyo artists were encouraged to explode…