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
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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.