Month: March 2005

  • Snow!

    For the first time in all the years I’ve lived in Tokyo, my classes have been cancelled today because of snow! Sure, it doesn’t really look like much outside — remember, I’m from Canada — but I guess it’s to much for most people to cope with. Guess it’s going to be a day of…

  • We Do It

    Marxy has put up a short clip from Kiiiiiii’s performance earlier this week at Club Que in Shimokitazawa.

  • Design Column for March

    This month’s design column is now up at Tokyo Q. Mobiles phones, the KDDI Designing Studio, exhibitions & galleries, and a few magazines.

  • The Spaminator

    Yes, I know, what a bore, another post about comment spam… Spam Karma has been doing a great job of keeping all unwanted spam out, but it seems that it was unfortunately being a bit overzealous, and blocking some legitimate comments also (some friends being blocked even though their messages were quite normal). I’ve decided…

  • Katsunori Aoki

    Katsunori Aoki’s exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery starts today. Katsunori Aoki continues to produce advertisements with solid, imaginative designs that have been widely noted, such as the Laforet fashion department store’s Grand Bazaar and Kirin’s “Kanpai! Lager” campaigns. For this exhibition, he chose characters as a theme. He does not just create characters as…

  • I Love New Tokyo

    A new campaign seen throughout the city. This shot was taken in Ginza.

  • A Video Reprieve

    I’ve been rather hard of late on the music video channels — with good reason — but all is not lost, as I was just reminded of the weekly SpaceShowerTV show PUSH JAPAN TYO. Just now they were playing a Groovisions directed video for a band called Freenote, for the single “Walkmen.” The song itself…