Month: September 2008

  • Tokyo Game Boy

    I’ve been enjoying the Full Throttle discussion so much that I’ve decided to start a new sideblog to talk more about games. I figure I’ll probably call it Tokyo Game Boy — based on the Tokyo Boy monicker I’ve been using for years — and I’ll put something up in the coming days. It won’t…

  • Mekas Covers Japan Fashion Week

    Missing out on Tokyo Fashion Week? No worries, since Marxy is checking everything out, and contributing collection reviews to Mekas‘ “Brand Profiles” section. You’ll currently find reports on Fur Fur and Mikio Sakabe, with a dozen more planned.

  • Colette by Katayama

    The Colette store in Paris has just re-opened after being closed for a couple of months while undergoing renovations, and now featuring a completely redone interior by Wonderwall‘s Masamichi Katayama. As you can see from photos over at Freshness, it’s very, well, Katayama-esque, with sneaker and Bape sections that look like what you’d see here.…

  • Saeki Covers Francois

    Kenzo Saeki covers sixties pop star Claude Francois’ “Le lundi au soleil.” Via Boing Boing. Update: Patrick Benny points to a page with even more videos from the same compilation, Clo Clo Made in Japan.

  • Lisa Katayama at Boing Boing

    Her two-week stint is winding down, but I wanted to at least mention once the great job that Lisa’s been doing while guest blogging at Boing Boing these past two weeks. Lots of great Japan-related topics — like this post yesterday on Takehiko Inoue’s Vagabond manga. Of course, you can get the same sort of…

  • Item Idem Blogs, Mutilates Cow

    Item Idem‘s Cyril has started blogging over at the Colette website. What’s he covering? We now know that Item Idem will be participating in this year’s “Cow Parade” in Tokyo — he doesn’t want us to laugh — and previews their contribution: “Untitled (Halved).”

  • First Squad Trailer

    I remember reading something about upcoming anime series First Squad a while back, and now we get to see a trailer for it. The series is a Russian-Canadian collaboration with Studio 4C. Directed by Mind Game director Yoshiharu Ashino, it’s set in a WW2 where Russian teenagers with super powers face off against the Nazi…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 24 Gallery

    Remo Camerota has put up a gallery on Facebook of shots taken during last night’s PauseTalk (Vol. 24). Pictured, me and Andrew, discussing “important” things. If you have photos taken during an edition of PauseTalk, please add them to the Flickr photo pool. Update: Apologies for my Facebook ignorance, but it seems that only “Friends”…