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Month: November 2004

  • The Tokyo Q Design Column

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    My new design column for the Tokyo Q site will start next week (Friday), and will then continue to appear on the first Friday of every month. The anime column is still scheduled for the second Friday of every month.

  • New Plusminuszero

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    Excite Japan features some of the new Fukasawa Naoto designs for the Plusminuszero brand. Also, I’m not sure if this is new, but the recently opened Aoyama shop — I still haven’t made it there — has a nice-looking cafe on the premises. The Excite link is via Dezain.net.

  • Octopus Dropkick!

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    Octopus Dropkick! is a fun group blog covering Japanese pop culture. They put up a lot of video from Japanese TV, so well worth checking out for that alone.

  • Felicity Tees

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    The Felicity label is selling a a pack of 6 Trattoria t-shirts for 6800 yen. Link via Patrick.

  • Eternity – Modernity

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    Patrick reminds me that I need to go see the Kusama Yayoi show, Eternity – Modernity, happening right now at the National Museum of Modern Art (until December 19). I missed the Kusamatrix show earlier this year.

  • Dotmov Festival 2004

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    Oh my. With everything happening in Tokyo this month, the Dotmov festival completely slipped my mind. Get thee to the official site right away and have a look at the tons of shorts that are there, waiting to be enjoyed.

  • Sound X Vision 2004 Opening Event

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    The Sound X Vision 2004 event, which I’ve often mentioned here, is about to make its way to Tokyo, to the Laforet Museum. Sounds like the opening day will be something special. Following acclaimed shows in Osaka, Sendai and Yamaguchi, this is the Tokyo edition of the audio-visual spectacle that features a number of outstanding…

  • Resfest: Days 3 and 4

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    Although I’m late with the posting — I’m just now catching up with all the blogging I should have been doing over the past few days — I did enjoy a few more programs on the final two days of the festival. On Monday, I was there for RESMIX Shorts, which is the Japanese-only program,…