I’m at the Embassy of Canada right now, so of course the vending machines have bottled water called Canada Icefield — a brand I’ve never heard of.
Category: TB.Movel
Ingo Maurer
At the Tokyo Opera City gallery to see the Ingo Maurer show. I’ll then go to the ICC.
Test N @ Pause
On now at Cafe Pause.
Party with Colette
Will Daft Punk show up?
Gelman at GGG
You really need to go see the Alexander Gelman show on now at the GGG. I enjoyed this one so much I had to pick up the book as well.
Issay Kitagawa
Just spent a crazy long time at the Design Gallery’s Issay Kitagawa show, curated by Taku Sato. Well worth seeing, but do it quickly as it ends on the 14th.
Sometimes you just gotta get out of town for a day — although, technically, I’m still in Tokyo.
A new WDW tee collection on display at Beams Street in Ikebukuro.
The other night when I was out for dinner with an old friend who was in town for a visit (at a stylish Italian restaurant in Odaiba called Fragile), I met graphic/web designer Mieko Sai, whose site you can view here (I dig the interactive cursor animation). She was telling me about a NY-based art magazine she works on called COOL, with the tagline “Creator’s Infinite Links” — intriguingly, the Japanese content on the site is quite extensive, but there’s almost nothing in English. She was saying that the magazine is hard to find, and that she sells copies herself. She showed interest in attending next month’s edition of PauseTalk, so it might be a good opportunity to get her to bring along some copies.
Update: Mieko has sent me a list of places where you can pick up COOL in Tokyo.
Not only do I love Maisen’s katsu sando, I love the package design almost as much!