Month: April 2005

  • Meal Muji

    Having lunch at Meal Muji, inside the flagship Muji store in Yurakucho.

  • hhstyle.com/casa

    Have a look at some pics of the new Tadao Ando designed hhstyle.com/casa interior design shop in Harajuku. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Anime Column for April

    My latest anime column is up at Tokyo Q. It’s a guide to the season’s most promising new shows.

  • Museums by Yoshio Taniguchi

    You just know I’m going to be seeing this show! We are proud to present this one-person show of architect Yoshio Taniguchi, one of today’s most recognized architects. Taniguchi is famous for his expansion design for the newly re-opened Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. His works are characterized by simple modernist spaces…

  • The Pink Hamster Group

    From Japan Today: “A member of the Pink Hamster group lights up in Shibuya.” Huh? Update: From Marxy: “They’re a street art social protest on the ‘hamster wheel’ absurdity of modern society. You keep on running and you just keep turning that big wheel of capitalism. How poetic.” Update: I’m the ass — ignore the…

  • Kami-Robo Expo 2005

    Just a reminder that the “Kami-Robo Expo 2005” is now on. If last month‘s GGG exhibition is anything to go by, this should be well worth seeing. A robot made out of cardboard boxes and wires, nicknamed “kamirobo”… Sculptor Yasui Tomohiro has been devoting himself to the creation of more than 200 kamirobos in 27…

  • Murakami Again

    The NYT has another piece on Murakami today.