Month: April 2005
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Sakura 2005
You can’t very well claim to have a Tokyo blog and not include at least one pic of the sakura in full bloom, so here’s my entry. On Saturday — runny nose and itchy eyes in full effect — we went to Koma, just outside the city on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line. And since I almost…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…