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Month: August 2007

  • TENORI-ON in the UK

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    Remember the TENORI-ON, that electronic music creation device designed by Toshio Iwai for Yamaha? I actually featured it in the very first edition of my “On Design” column for THE JAPAN TIMES 2 years ago, and now comes word that it will finally go on sale in the UK on September 4. No plans on…

  • The Analog Girl at Cafe Pause

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    Here are a few shots (the rest after the jump) of the performance by Singapore’s The Analog Girl at Cafe Pause, this past Friday (August 17). I also recorded video of a few tracks, but unfortunately the completed file ended up being too big (1.7GB), and caused problems when I tried to transfer it. Thanks…

  • Not Tokyo in Classic Style

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    Tokyo-based Alin Huma releases a new PDF booklet, this time a “a set of postcards from the not-tokyo in classic style (of a student of walker evans who didn’t quite rebel against the master).” Direct download here.

  • Happening in Tokyo

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    Kiiiiiii will perform this Tuesday (August 21) at Club Quattro in Shibuya to celebrate the release of their first album, AL & BUM (you can preview the album here). Guests will include Cubismo Grafico Five! The show starts at 18:15, with entry at 2800 yen (includes a drink). This year’s edition of the Good Design…

  • Compost Vase

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    Tokyo-based Canadian designer Chris Kirby, who’s a regular at PauseTalk, gets a mention on the Yanko Design blog for his Compost Vase.

  • PingMag: Manga Translator

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    PingMag interviews Simona Pini, an Italian who has been translating manga in Italian and English for 15 years, including some very popular series like BLEACH and NANA.

  • In Full X-Color

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    Pictured above is just a portion of a massive panorama Patrick Benny shot at Mito station in Ibaraki. As he explains in this post, it’s located at the south exit of the station, and was done legally for an exhibition in 2005 (“X-COLOR,” which he also checked out). You can view the entire thing here.

  • Review of The Anime Encyclopedia

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    Patrick Macias reviews THE ANIME ENCYCLOPEDIA: A GUIDE TO JAPANESE ANIMATION SINCE 1917 in today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES. You can read it online here.

  • Points: 8-Bit Cafe and 16 Shots

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    Jason DeGroot has just launched a new series of game-related videos for GameVideos.com called POINTS. The first episode (#00) is up and covers two great videogame-related bars in Shinjuku, 8-Bit Cafe and 16 Shots. You can read more about them here. The episode also appears as part of this week’s NOT THE 1UP SHOW (12).

  • Ghost Hound

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    Why are you going to want to keep an eye out for the upcoming anime series GHOST HOUND? It’s from Production I.G and Masamune Shirow (GHOST IN THE SHELL), and to be directed by Ryutaro Nakamura (SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN). Have a look at the these 2 trailers: here and here. The series will debut October…