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Month: May 2008

  • Hiroyuki Nishimura Featured in Wired

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    Lisa Takayama writes a feature for Wired on Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel (he’s also behind the Nico Nico Douga site). It’s in the June issue, but you can also read it online here.

  • PingMag: Cocca

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    PingMag interviews Nanami Maejima of the shop Cocca in Daikanyama, purveyor of beautiful printed fabrics.

  • PingMag: Chin Music Press

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    Well look who gets some nice attention over at PingMag! The latest piece on the site is an interview with Chin Music Press‘ Craig Mod and Bruce Rutledge.

  • Design Gallery

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    I also stopped by the Design Gallery at Matsuya Ginza. The current show, “Matsuya and Good Design: Its Activities and the Japan Design Committee,” includes a look at the gallery’s past exhibitions and items that have been featured in the adjacent Design Collection retail space. That wall you see in the photo is covered in…

  • Bishin Jumonji

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    I stopped by the Guardian Garden gallery the other day in Ginza to catch the Bishin Jumonji exhibition (ends today). The show there is actually an extension of the show on at Creation Gallery G8, and that’s the one I preferred.

  • Travel Cafe

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    I found myself in Kasumigaseki the other day, and needed a cafe to rest for a bit, and ended up in this branch of the Travel Cafe chain. Can’t say that it’s particularly special as far as cafes go, but the toast with ham and cheese I had was quite decent. The coffee? I couldn’t…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    This week’s Tokyo post for MoCo Loco covers Takumi’s Plug Pin, some new additions to I’mD‘s RETTO bathroom accessories, and Takeshi Miyakawa’s Fractal Drawers.

  • Living Small in the Big City

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    National Geographic has a video report up, “Tokyo: Living Small in the Big City,” featuring Atelier Tekuto‘s Penguin House. Via Dezain.net.

  • Cafe in Shinjuku

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    I was digging through recent photos, and found these of a really nice cafe in Shinjuku I went to last month. It was my friend Max who brought me there, and I can’t remember the name, but it’s on the fifth floor of a building, somewhere between the station and Kabukicho. Speaking of cafes, my…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 21

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    We had a smaller group at this month’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 21), but it still made for a pleasant gathering. Talk revolved around a few specific projects this time, and thanks to James for his harrowing account of his work on a reality series currently being shot in Tokyo. The next edition will be…