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Month: December 2016

  • Pacific Heat

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    This popped up on Netflix last week, an Archer-like from Australia. I watched the first 2 episodes, and gotta say it’s pretty damn funny – at first I felt a bit uneasy about the mocking Asian accents, but you eventually get that they’re making fun of that stereotype. I still haven’t gotten around to watching…

  • Sing Street

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    I watched this last night on Netflix, and it’s absolutely one of my fave movies of the year. Set in 80s Dublin, it’s sorta a basic boy-loves-girl-creates-a-band-to-impress-her kinda thing, but so well done, and the soundtrack throughout – both the known songs and the ones that were written for the movie’s band to perform –…

  • Ami Sioux Tokyo 35ºN

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    I’m very happy to see my ex-OK Fred Radio partners — and current creators of Too Much magazine — release their first book under the Too Much: Romantic Geographic Archive label (a “new book series [that] will focus on archiving individual memory of place, providing invaluable documentation of a world in a state of flux”).…

  • Score Studios and The Last Guardian

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    I remember a couple of years ago, at one of my last PauseTalk events, that I was asking my buddy James Kay — who runs the Tokyo-based Score Studios — what he was up to at the time, and that he hinted that the studio was working on something that I’d consider to be a pretty…

  • A Desk for Manga Artists

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    Here’s another great post on Spoon & Tamago that tells the story of the creation by designer Oki Sato (Nendo) of a desk specifically designed with manga artists in mind, part of a collaboration with manga creator Yusei Matsui.

  • Hermes Kyoto

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    Spoon & Tamago highlights the beautiful new Hermes pop-up shop and event space in Kyoto, which will be open for 9 months. It was designed by Nendo alum Koichiro Oniki.

  • Operation Fateful Encounter

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    “Operation Fateful Encounter” is a new short story set in Tokyo by Hengtee Lim, featuring two illustrations by good ol’ Luis. Found via Canvas.

  • Kawa 2

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    I wrote a post about the Kawa zine last month, and here’s a great look at the just-released 2nd issue, covering places to visit in Yokohama. Found via Canvas.

  • CX Nobeyama

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    Here’s a fantastic photo story for the Rapha website by Tokyo-based photographer Lee Basford (who’s done a lot of cycling-related photography in the past, and whose work I love) covering Rapha’s Supercross series in Nobeyama. Striking shots. Found via Canvas.

  • Let It Die

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    This surprised me. I didn’t know much about it ahead of its release this past weekend, but was definitely excited to give it a try, since I’ve enjoyed a lot of Suda51 games in the past. At first I was really digging the general style of the game and world setup, but then all of…