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Month: July 2004

  • TSiG on Display

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    Jesper sent me a few pics, and it looks like TSiG is really coming along. The above is one of the displays at the Roda Sten building, where the event will take place. I absolutely love his use of Brockmann figures (and try to find the one that he bought from me). One of the…

  • Art Flea Market

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    While one can’t quite say “money is everything the world over”, money problems are always an issue in art-related endeavors. The money it takes to create art, the monetary value of art. A flea market exploring the relationship between art and money: shop and think about “art and economics”. The variety of booths range from…

  • Audrey Fondecave

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    Tokyo resident Audrey Fondecave acts as the editor of the culture magazine OK FRED (contrary to popular belief, it’s not just about music, as the last few issues have suggested), and is also an illustrator and photographer for the Slidelab group. On top of this, she works in fashion design, and has done various art…

  • Submissions for DOTMOV 2004

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    Got the following info in the SHIFT newsletter the other day, and thought I’d help spread the word. DOTMOV Festival 2004, a competitive digital film festival launched last November, is now inviting submissions from throughout the world. The festival’s aim is to discover talented creators and provide them with an opportunity to show their work.…

  • More on the Tokyo IPod Mini Madness

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    About 1,500 Tokyoites lined up to get their hands on the first shipment of iPod minis to Japan, according to Apple. But when the store’s doors were thrown open at 10 a.m., the two young men at the head of the line refused to enter because of the small army of reporters waiting inside to…

  • Short 5

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    The following looks like it would be interesting, but unfortunately it’s not playing with English subs. Only five films in the short film category of the Cannes Film Festival received critical acclaim. Their degree of accomplishment was of course high, but that’s not all. Living up to all the pre-screening chatter, “First Film”, a montage…

  • Little

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    My new guilty pleasure right now is the single “I Sing, I Say” by Little. I rarely find anything interesting happening in the J-pop landscape these days, but there’s a nice breezy air to this that helps make the Summer heat just a bit more bearable (funny how music helps me fight the heat, but…

  • Bape Cap

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    When I got to the station tonight after work, I was confronted by this big advertisement. According to the official site, seems like Nigo’s A Bathing Ape has now launched a line of condoms called Bape Cap. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • Takemoto Novala

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    Last weekend’s ASAHI SHIMBUN sees an article on Takemoto Novala, author of the book SHIMOTSUMA MONOGATARI (English title is to be KAMIKAZE GIRLS), that was recently made into a film starring idol Fukada Kyoko (and Patrick quite liked it). “It didn’t mean I wanted to become a girl. Simply put, I wasn’t interested in stuff…

  • Saturday Pause

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    Robert seems to be the master of describing evenings out, and here’s what he said about last Saturday night. Last night I showed up late in Ikebukuro for a little shindig  that Jean Snow threw for his friends at Pause. Everyone was there: Mr. Snow from around the way, Audrey from OK FRED, Momus from Amitabha, Midori…