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  • How Swede It Is

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    Nothing to do with Japan, but with my TSiG involvement, this seems to fit. My good friend Marc Xavier LeBlanc, a photographer and DJ, and self-professed Swedish indie pop freak, will be hosting a 2-hour special program tonight (Saturday) on Canada’s national radio network, CBC (Radio 2). He’s calling it “How Swede It Is,” and…

  • OK Fred Freshness

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    Oh yeah, look at that freshness! The new OK FRED (4), just off the boat. Only problem is that because of a duty snafu, due to an obscure Japanese law, every copy had to be stamped with an indication of where it had been printed. It was hard work, but OK FREDders extraordinaire Yoshi and…

  • JT and the Dangers of Smoking

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    Been noticing images like the one you see here a lot lately, in trains and stations. It’s a new campaign by a Tobacco company, JT. The ads do look nice, quite design friendly (see some more in this latest Click Opera entry). Robert was inspired to write a new essay. Update (16/08/21): The image is…

  • Shift 093

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    The new issue of design ezine SHIFT (93) is up. This month’s cover interview is with Nakamura Yugo, who just recently launched a redesign of his site, Yugopop. I quite enjoyed the “Cafe Meets Gallery” section, that offers virtual gallery tours. Nice.

  • OK Fred 4 Release Party

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    Some more info on the upcoming OK FRED 4 release party (which I’m very much looking forward to). SATURDAY 21ST OF AUGUST FROM 6P.M. TO 9 P.M AT ICC WITH A PERFORMANCE OF THE FRENCH ARTIST MATHIEU BRIAND/CERCLE ROUGE THE JAPANESE UNIT TYME+TAPS AND DJ DIGIKI (FRANCE) DJ MILQUESTOAST (USA) AND GUESTS. ALL PERFORMANCES PLAYED…

  • Momus at Placard#7

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    Momus, earlier tonight, at the Placard#7 festival in Yoyogi park.

  • Placard#7

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    This weekend is the Placard electronic music festival in Yoyogi park. I missed the performances by Midori and Robert last night, but tonight I’ll be heading there for the Momus hour. It’s my understanding that his performance will be based on SUMMERISLE, the album he released earlier this year with Anne Laplantine. He’ll be on…

  • Metropolis Renewed

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    With its latest issue, Tokyo’s English weekly city guide METROPOLIS has just launched an updated version of itself. I’d say they’ve done a good job, and I’m already liking what I see. More things to read, a return of the back page editorial (the old TOKYO CLASSIFIED, as the magazine used to be called, “Rants…

  • Totoro at the Expo

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    From Boing Boing: A replica of the Kusakabe residence, the house featured in Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 animated masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro, will be built for EXPO 2005 being held in Aichi, Japan, from 25 March – 25 September, 2005. It will be constructed within the woods of the Expo site using techniques of the early…

  • Matthew’s Summer Festa

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    TV variety show host Matthew Minami, who appeared in “Lost in Translation,” clowns around with Aya Sugimoto (in black) and another guest during a news conference to announce “Matthew’s Summer Festa” to be held at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise on Aug 21 before 10,000 fans. I had a laugh when I saw this on the…