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Events Photography

Naked Tokyo 2009

This year’s edition of the “Naked Tokyo” exhibition is happening soon, a one-night event on June 26 at SuperDeluxe. It’s of course very nice to see that a few friends and PauseTalkers are participating, and I do look forward to checking out all the works (I’ve unfortunately missed passed showings).

Above, a photo by Carla Hernandez.

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Design

Web Trend Map 4

Information Architects have released the fourth edition of their annual Web Trend Map, and it’s looking better than ever, all in black. IA’s Oliver Reichenstein dropped by PauseTalk earlier this week, and to hear it from him, it was actually quite an involved process to get the poster produced this year — see photos from the printer — but the result made it well worth it. Also, if he ends up doing what he suggested for next year, I can guarantee you it’s going to be absolutely amazing.

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Art Events

Carl Randall's Portrait Project

Carl Randall

Carl Randall is a Ph.D. student in oil painting at Tokyo National University of Arts, and he’s looking for volunteers for a new project. He’s currently on the lookout for hundreds of people to pose for portraits that would appear on large canvases, and later exhibited in Tokyo and London. If interested, you can get in touch with Carl directly.

Above, a portrait by Carl of writer Donald Richie.

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Books

When at Narita

When at Narita and looking to pick up something to read on your flight, I would indeed highly recommend getting a copy of Arcade Mania. Thanks Audrey, who snapped the photo this morning as she heads to Sweden.

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Design MoCo Loco

This Week at MoCo Loco

My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Mikiya Kobayashi‘s Tate Otama (above), new lamp shades from Daisuke Hiraiwa, and DI CLASSE‘s Nude Lamp.

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Design Stores

Uniqlo Shinjuku

I haven’t had a chance to check it out for myself yet, but Designboom has posted a few photos from the newly opened Uniqlo megastore in Shinjuku — it was designed by Nicolas Gwenael’s Curiosity.

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Design

Blossom

Interesting new technique used by architect Ryuji Nakamura to create this flower pattern pictured above. More details at PSFK.

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Art Events

Cadavres Exquis

Designboom has a rather nice gallery of shots from Jules Julien’s “Cadavres Exquis” exhibition at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama. The show runs until August 2.

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Events Meta

PauseTalk Tonight

Just your friendly reminder that tonight (June 1) is indeed PauseTalk Vol. 32. Start time is 20:00 as always, and as I’ve mentioned before, the cafe will be entirely reserved for the event, so we should be able to accommodate everyone. Hope to see lots of you there!