I’ve been really wanting to see Ryoji Ikeda’s “+/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo — I even included it as a recommendation in a recent edition of the Superfuture Superguide for Tokyo — but haven’t had a chance to see it myself yet. Looks like Max quite enjoyed it, based on the rather extensive review he’s written for it on his blog.
Author: Jean Snow
Tokyo-based eco collective PangeaSeed is organizing an event, “No Fin No Future,” on July 30 at SuperDeluxe. From the official website:
PangeaSeed will feature a special screening of the award winning documentary Sharkwater. The event will be supported by special guest speaker, Kim McCoy of the Shark Angels, guest bands, and DJ. As well as a charity art exhibition which will feature some of the worlds most sought-after modern artists, photographers, and designers.
These individuals have all donated their time and extraordinary talents to creating one of a kind originals and/or contributing existing artwork to help raise awareness and save one of the worlds most important and misunderstood animals. All artwork will be available for purchase and proceeds will be donated to an organization helping to save sharks.
Some of the works are on display here.
Time-Lapsing Tokyo
The moving city. Via CScout Japan.
Another PauseTalk (Vol. 32), another great audience. Seems like the new plan to reserve Cafe Pause for the event was justified since we again ended up with a 30+ crowd, and the new table arrangement — a pixelated triangle, courtesy of the cafe’s manager — made for a better round-table discussion. We covered quite a few interesting topics and projects, and got a nice preview of Patrick W. Galbraith‘s upcoming The Otaku Encyclopedia, out in Japan later this month.
Something else I tried for the first time was to have an attendance sheet (pictured above), since I’ve had trouble in the past in remembering everyone’s name for these posts. The list is still incomplete, but is much better than what I would have come up with on my own. Huge thanks also to Remo Camerota for the great photos posted in this entry — take a look also at some examples of his “Polaroid Project.” The next PauseTalk happens July 6.
- Aiko Suzuki (Writer)
- Andrew Lee (Editor)
- Anke von der Heide (Graphic Designer)
- Anna Antoniades (Designer)
- Benjamin Parks (Photographer)
- Benjamin Thomas (Web Designer)
- Edward Harrison (Illustrator)
- Eric Chan (New Media Graphic Artist)
- Erica Nishizato (Graphic Designer)
- Greg McMaster (Creative Strategies)
- Hawken King (Web Designer)
- Hisako Emura (Production Manager)
- James Kay (Game Developer)
- James Okubo (Filmmaker)
- Jean Snow (Student of PauseTalkenomics)
- Jesus Conan (Gaff Drainer)
- Josh McKible (Illustrator)
- Julien Feltesse (Programmer)
- Kaeko Kumamoto (Fashion Designer Assistant)
- Mark Cooke (Game Developer)
- Masao Tamaoki (Online Retailer)
- Matthew Hagles (Writer)
- Patrick W. Galbraith (Author)
- Remo Camerota (Photographer/Filmmaker)
- Samson Adjei (Architect)
- Susanne Mooney (Visual Artist)
- Thomas Antonietti (Product Designer)
- Tomas Rovina-Roquero (Game Developer)
- Wayne J. Moskwa (Designer)
- William Andrews (Editor)
Polaroid Portraits
The great polaroid montages you see in this post are part of Remo Camerota‘s new “Polaroid Portraits” project. The project will eventually be shown in an exhibition in Tokyo, and what you see here are some of the latest additions, taken during this week’s PauseTalk (Vol. 32). Above, James Okubo and Erika Nishizato, below, Anna Antoniades and Hawken King. He’ll be doing some more at the next PauseTalk — he’s threatened to get me in one.
I’ve been meaning to mention it for a while, but a second Kenta Cho shooter is now available for iPhone in the form of Noiz2sa. To be honest, I don’t like it as much as rRootage, but it’s still good fun. For those of you who don’t know, Kenta Cho is an acclaimed independent developer of abstract shooting games, and also the centerpiece of the shmup (shoot ’em up) chapter in Arcade Mania.
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.
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.
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.
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.