Jean Snow [.net]

Month: March 2005

  • Looking Down

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    Ryuichi Sakamoto looks down on the masses. Shot taken in Harajuku.

  • Tokyo International Anime Fair

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    Next weekend (April 2-3) sees the big Tokyo International Anime Fair at Tokyo Big Sight. The biggest animation trade show in Japan attracts over 50,000 visitors in two days to see the latest anime features and TV shows, games and characters goods. 130 Japanese production companies and TV broadcasters, as well as about 30 international…

  • Shinako Sato

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    Barbie, like you’ve never seen her before. Photographer Shinako Sato reportedly worked for five years as a makeup artist for a mortician, daubing the dead with lipstick. Perhaps that explains her fascination with elaborately staged and dressed dioramas of stiff figures (thankfully, dolls not real dead people). Sato works with Barbie dolls and plastic figures,…

  • Vodafone’s Japan Blunder

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    I keep hearing that Vodafone is not doing well at all in Japan, and now this: I can’t see how Vodafone can get out of the hole they dug themselves into. Gerhard Fasol, president of Eurotechnology-Japan, a consulting company, speculating that Softbank Corp, a Japanese broadband Internet provider that’s trying to get a cell-phone license,…

  • MM Versus Sadako

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    Idol group Morning Musume watch RING in front of cameras, and squeal like there’s no tomrrow (be patient, takes a while to load). Link via Waxy.

  • Yuki

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    I love Yuki — shhhh… don’t tell my wife. The images are from two of her latest posts, “Slave to Fashion” and “Full Feeds.”

  • Amaztype

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    Oh my. Keita Kitamura and Yugo Nakamura have created Amaztype, a search engine that goes through Amazon and displays results as, well, have a look for yourself. Link via Design Observer.

  • Radio OK Fred 5

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    Radio OK Fred 5 is now up. You can access the old shows here, and subscribe to the podcast feed. Also, the order pages at the OK FRED site have been updated, so you can order the fifth issue (pictured above) directly from them. As for buying it in shops, it should be readily available…