Category: General

More Milano… Even if i was ill at the time I thought the Designers Block event was one of the most interesting happening. Here I also met the crazy / funny / swedish design group; Defyra consisting of four girls based in Stockholm. They have a close connection to Tokyo being curators for Swedish Style…

I absolutely love the video for the new Pet Shop Boys single, “Flamboyant.” A mix of scenes from Japanese life, mixed the TV show KASO TAISHO, and a few satirical commercial poses by PSB themselves. Link via Click Opera.

Momus’ latest track, “Corkscrew King,” makes the top news at Yahoo! Japan’s news headlines (and here is a direct link to the full article). Because the track was linked in the article, seems like he encountered bandwidth problems, but everything should be fixed soon enough. Also available for download at his Click Opera site are…

This girl is Lisa Sandstr?m, student at HDK (School of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg University). 4 times a year, 4 days at a time, she opens up her temporary fashion boutique called Fashion Deluxe. Here she’s trying to promote and sell young designer fashion, mostly made by design school students. As a part of Tokyo…

I was quite disappointed with this year Mogu exhibition in Milano. Not as fun as last year and you didn’t get a free Mogu. But who can resist these soft Barbapapas from the 2004 collection; to cuddle while listening to Airs Moon Safari. Update (16/08/21): This post was part of a week-long “Next Century Modern…

I saw that Jean had already written about my recent trip to Milano. While eating and drinking my way though the press opening of this years new addition to the furniture fair; Street Dining Design at Triennale di Milano, I found an interesting floor showing student projects from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. The title…

I’m not really into the sounds of Usagi-Chang Records, but I know a bunch of people who are, and so I’ll share this info about the Tokyo Fun Party event taking place at Uplink Factory on April 24. Here’s the rundown from RT (yeah, it’s pretty obvious that I’m catching up on REALTOKYO news bits…

I take it this was all inspired from Enki Bilal’s NIKOPOL TRILOGY, of which a new film adaptation called IMMORTEL (or GOD DIVA here in Japan) is being released here next week. From RT: What the hell is chess boxing? you might ask. Simple answer: a funny kind of sports (?) where the opponents switch…