Month: September 2004
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Purple Journal and OK Fred Event
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Wouldn’t mind being in Paris for the following: PURPLE JOURNAL & OK FRED invite you 09/19th @ Purple Institute 6.30p.m – Reading of the Purple Journal by Eve Bitoune and Eve Couturier – Films by Cedrick Eymenier and Sebastien Jamain – Sound by Yoshihiro Hanno, Cedric Pin, Aoki Takamasa, Sebastien Roux Purple Institute 9 rue…
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Composite 1
The new issue of COMPOSITE (1) is out, and it looks really nice. The previous issue, labeled 0, announced a renewal that saw the magazine become bilingual (translations of the articles appear at the end).
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Metroblogging Tokyo
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Metroblogging Tokyo has just launched, a group blog on the city. It’s an offshoot of the Metblogs series, which started with Blogging.la.
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And Up
Wired News has a piece up on a store in Aoyama that caters to iPod aficionados, but with a twist. The owner recommends pairing up an iPod with antique radios or receivers with the use of an FM transmitter, like the iTrip. In the back streets of Tokyo’s upscale Aoyama district, there’s a little antique…
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Miike Goes English
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And I’m not sure how this makes me feel. I’ve seen so many Asian movie directors get sucked into the Hollywood abyss, and I don’t really want to see the same thing happen to such an interesting filmmaker (although he already has his hits and misses). The film with Kuriyama Chiaki (KILL BILL’s Go Go…
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Kuhaku
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KUHAKU is a book just published by Chin Music Press, and it looks really nice. One of the people involved lives not far from here (we’ve talked about cafes in the area). You can read interviews with the authors and view art here, and they even have a canned coffee review section (I’ve probably moblogged…