Jean Snow [.net]

Month: September 2004

  • Barnbrook Design 2

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    Another shot from the Barnbrook Design exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery.

  • Synth Music

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    Nicholas D. Kent has quite the exhaustive site on synth music from Japan.

  • Inamura Shinya

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    Lots of visual goodness to be enjoyed at graphic designer Inamura Shinya’s portfolio site. Link via K10K.

  • Vertical Sales

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    Vertical, the American publisher that releases English translations of Japanese fiction (as well as a few manga books, like Tezuka Osamu’s classic BUDDHA), now sells its books online from their site.

  • Net Ramen

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    Ramen enters the internet age. Yahoo Japan Corp said Thursday it will start selling across the country later this month “ramen” noodle soup it has developed on the basis of the results of a popularity contest conducted via the Internet. The product, dubbed “Samurai Ramen,” features soup made from scorched “miso” fermented soy bean paste…

  • Keitai Gone

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    Just a quick note to say that I lost my mobile phone today. I think it dropped out of my pocket on the train. I’ve just had the number disactivated, and don’t know yet what’s going to happen after that (when Yuko gets back from university, we’ll check with JR and the police to see…

  • Barnbrook Design

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    A pic from last month’s Barnbrook Design exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery. These protest flyers let you write whatever blurb you would like to see this world leaders say.

  • Accessible

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    I still haven’t had a chance to check out the Claska hotel (with their Sign produced cafe/lounge on the first floor), but this might get me there (although financially, I’m pretty limited in my outings for the next few weeks). This September it has been one year since the aged Hotel New Meguro was renovated…