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Month: August 2007

  • HYPTYO

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    HYPTYO, the site that gives plenty of “Primo Tokyo Info” in the form of event recommendations is now in beta and open to everyone. It was previously mostly a private mailing list, but now the site is live, and is accompanied by a blog as well.

  • 8mm Shooting at Night

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    My friend Denis Goguen loves his 8mm cameras, and he keeps buying new ones. He recently built a small timer that would let him shoot with a time delay, and so the other night we walked around Ikebukuro and did some shooting. I’ve posted a few more photos after the jump, and you can see…

  • Climbing at Mont-Bell

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    With all the mountain trekking I’ve been doing of late, I had to update my gear, and bought quite a few things at the Mont-Bell flagship store in Shibuya. As you can see, you can even practice some climbing in the store.

  • Minami-Ikebukuro Park at Night

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    You all know how much I love hanging out at Minami-Ikebukuro park, and here’s another shot, taken at night, from the perspective of where I always sit. What you see way beyond is Ikebukuro station, which is just 1-2 minutes away. I always grab beers from the convenience store before going, and tonight I was…

  • Hiking on Karamatsudake

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    I actually do make it out of the city every once in a while, and last week we did 3 outings for some mountain treks, first up north in Oze, then on Mitake-san (still officially within the boundaries of Tokyo-to), and finally this past weekend on Karamatsudake, near the city of Nagano. I’ve put up…

  • Start Drawing

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    StartDrawing.org is billed as “the Asia drawing portal,” and covers illustrative work from all over the region. Readers of this site will probably be particularly interested in the “Japan” category, but take the time to browse through the other countries, or just subscribe to the site’s feed. Pictured in this post are pieces from Innocentgirl…

  • Uroko-House

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    Paul Baron is moving this fall into a new apartment. Why should you care? To get a bit of privacy inside the open studio space, he enlisted the help of architects Point, who then came up with the Uroko-House (uroko means fish scale). The structure, which comes of looking like some sort of igloo, will…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    TITLE (91) presents what makes a “Good Read for Samurai-Business,” so we get a round-up of classic Japanese samurai fiction that supposedly instill lessons on the way to do business. There’s also a giant feature on 24, to go with the release of the 6th season here on DVD, and the magazine even includes a…

  • Collect.apply Update

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    Hal Udell of Kyoto-based Collect.apply just updated me on a few new happenings for the unit. First, an exhibition of ink works that will be held at THE GREEN cafe in Kyoto, August 27 to September 16. Hal is also involved in the upcoming “Ima-Karada” show for IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences)…

  • EU-Japan Design Competition 2007

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    The deadline for submissions is almost up (August 31), but if you’re a young Japanese designer, you maybe want to consider the EU-Japan Design Competition 2007. The theme is “environment.”