Month: October 2003

ART iT, the new bilingual art magazine by the folks behind the REALTOKYO site if finally getting its launch. You’ll also be able to buy it through the Amazon Japan store. Here’s the blurb from the REALTOKYO site: REALTOKYO presents its new art magazine, “ART iT.” In this country where serious-minded art journalism doesn’t really…

The other day I promised I’d do a quick rundown of the anime shows from the new TV season I’ve watched, so here goes (let me note that these thoughts are all based on the first episodes only). There are a lot of new shows out there, but these are the ones that caught my…

You might have noticed that I’ve added a donation button through PayPal in the sidebar (just under the archives). As the site’s popularity has grown over this past year, so too have the bandwidth requirements. If you enjoy what I’ve been doing here and can afford a small contribution, then don’t let me stop you.…

This comment was made following my post about the new AU design project mobile phones: Capitalism tries to persuade us that freedom means no more than the freedom to consume new products, rather than the freedom to have meaningful lives. I wonder if these new phones will allow me to relate to people in ways…

Seems like Takashi Murakami is going to be following the gatcha-gatcha route with tiny packs of his designs with gum. Here’s a link to an article in Japanese that has lots of images, and here’s a short translation found on Geisha Asobi: Miniaturized modern works of art are now free — with the purchase of…

With the help of Patrick, I’ve done something to the site to try to control the new influx of porn spam that’s been appearing of late in the commenting system (got a good 40-50 today). It’s still in the testing stage, so if you have any problems trying to place a comment on the site,…

The following is a website to a real hospital. Please make it stop… Link via Patrick (so blame him for putting those images in your head).

I am absolutely in love with the 3 new models to be launched by AU in November through their “AU Design Project.” Pictured above are the Building, Nishikigoi, and Ichimatsu. Not just pleasing to the eye, they take movies and pics, and feature all the java enhancements and modern software that you would expect from…

I am presently reading web designer Jeffrey Zeldman’s DESIGNING WITH WEB STANDARDS, which I’m quite enjoying. I was very proud of the fact that when I did this version of the site (which was launched in March of this year), that it was done using CSS (giving myself a crash course), and this book just…

I’ve been checking out a lot of new animated shows this new season, and there are quite a few good ones. I’ll do a quick review of all the pilot episodes tomorrow if I have time.