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Month: November 2004

  • Waist Down

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    I want to see this, if for the setting more than the works themselves. There’s that last scene in one of those Nikkatsu erotic movies where the protagonist’s (Seri Meika) skirt is softly waving in the wind. It’s an incredibly beautiful and expressive scene that in a way symbolizes the meaning of a skirt for…

  • Compound Cafe

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    I was at the Compound Cafe today, in Sangenjaya. Very nice space, and neatly divided over 3 narrow floors. The red velvet seats are a nice touch. And the BGM was thankfully non-intrusive. Count me as a new fan. Looking at their website, I see that it’s a Renovation Planning project, who are behind quite…

  • Everio

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    I want me one of these. We don’t feature JVC often, mainly because its products tend to be a bit, well, dull, but the company’s marketing machine intrigued us when it went gaga this summer, running a tease campaign urging the press to guess what the new Everio was. The fact that it turned out…

  • Roppongi Hills Monopoly

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    I saw a blurb on this Murakami Takashi designed Roppongi Hills version of Monopoly about a month ago (at the time of the Monopoly World Championships) in TOKYO WALKER, and here comes METROPOLIS with the following info: Every four years—just like the Olympics—40 players from around the world gather to battle it out over a…

  • Marxy Does Creativity Now

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    Marxy went to yesterday’s “Creativity Now Tokyo” event, and he’s just posted a write-up. He also got some copies of his new album.

  • Stickers in the Sky

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    Some stickers at the top of a post on Omotesando. You can’t really see it here, but it would be very hard to put some stickers up there, and I’m wondering how they went about doing it. I took the pic from one of the elevated crossings, and that post is a good meter or…

  • Nishimura Yoshiaki

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    The final installment of REALTOKYO’s “Redesigning Tokyo” column is up. Our talk guest this time is Nishimura Yoshiaki, whose activities can be summarized in “making, writing and teaching”: he plans and produces museum displays, operates websites, and hosts various types of workshops. One of his most acclaimed projects is “Sound Bum”, a sonic journey that…

  • Christmas Madness

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    The outside wall of the Akasaka Prince Hotel in Tokyo is lit up for the Christmas season. (Japan Today) Oh god, even here, where Christmas isn’t really celebrated, Christmas stuff is up everywhere. At Seibu, the trees were up on October 30. Is there no escape? And at work, I had to start going over…

  • Omotesando

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    Omotesando street, facing Aoyama.

  • Sato Kashiwa

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    This month’s GGG exhibition, “Kashiwa Sato BEYOND,” starts today. In November 2004, Ginza Graphic Gallery will hold an exhibition called Kashiwa Sato BEYOND. Kashiwa Sato symbolizes trends in today’s design world as an artist who constantly expands the framework of art direction in projects that lightly transcend traditional boundaries such as graphics, product design and…