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Month: October 2008

  • Colette’s Sarah on Cat Street

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    I have spies everywhere. Above, Colette‘s Sarah on Cat Street earlier today, photographed by Ian Luna.

  • Tokyolife Talkshow

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    Had a great time at yesterday’s Tokyolife talkshow at Tsutaya in Roppongi, especially for the chance to meet Mika Ninagawa. Big thanks to Ian for asking me to do it. Pictured above on the panel (from left): Marie (our translator), Ninagawa-san, Ian Luna (editor and contributor to the book), and me. Note that Mika Ninagawa’s…

  • PingMag: Graffiti Japan

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    Remo gets interviewed over at PingMag about his just-launched book, Graffiti Japan.

  • The Beast Player

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    Some great news on the anime front: Starting January 10, NHK will begin airing The Beast Player, a series based on novels by Nahoko Uehashi, author of the Moribito novels. I absolutely loved the Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirit) series, and so quite happy to find out about this. The new series is…

  • TAB Fall 2008 T-Shirts

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    Tokyo Art Beat’s 2008 Tokyo Collection of t-shirts expands, with two new models joining the previously released bunch. The new designs come courtesy of Paramodel (left) and So+Ba. Priced at 3,500 yen each — and lovingly printed by Sweatshop Union — best to order quick before they sell out.

  • PauseTalk Vol. 25

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    Apologies for being so late on this — blame the Tokyo Game Show — but I’d like to thank everyone who came down to PauseTalk Vol. 25 earlier this month. We started as a rather small group, but it swelled up throughout the evening, and in the end we had a good bunch of people…

  • The Slice of Success

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    I just love that Google searches and the like will now probably associate Item Idem with the “bovine mutilator” qualifier. A meme is born!

  • Lisa Katayama at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan

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    Monday night I stopped by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Yurakucho to catch Lisa‘s talk about her book, Urawza: Secret Everday Tips and Tricks from Japan. She actually talked about much more, including the insane amount of work that went into the piece on 2-Channel‘s Hiroyuki Nishimura she wrote for Wired.

  • Eizo Nite

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    Martine Cotton sends me info for the following event, which sounds like it could be of much interest for those of you into filmmaking. Eizo is Japanese for moving pictures, and this event is an exploratory celebration of the Eizo world here in Tokyo, featuring presentations, discussions and displays about all aspects of the moving…

  • Tokyolife Talkshow

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    For those interested, I’ll be hosting a panel at Tsutaya Tokyo Roppongi (the big one behind Roppongi Hills, near the TV Asahi building) on Saturday (October 25). It will cover the book Tokyolife, and the panelists are Ian Luna, editor and contributor to the book, and photographer/filmmaker Mika Ninagawa — Ian is working on a…