Jean Snow [.net]

Month: May 2005

  • Museums

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    THE JAPAN TIMES has a piece on the Yoshio Taniguchi exhibition, “Museums,” currently taking place at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.

  • 100 Best Posters Exhibition

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    You know, I’m all about free exhibitions: After being exhibited for one week at “Marucube” inside Maru Building, the “100 best posters” selected in a contest that has been held annually in Germany since 30 years, are gracing the fence surrounding the construction site of the Shin Maru Building (due to open in 2007). Since…

  • Studio Poco Exhibition

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    A photography exhibition by Studio Poco in the room adjacent to the Lapnet Ship gallery in Harajuku.

  • Metropolis Q&A

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    Last week I was interviewed by METROPOLIS (the Tokyo weekly, not the design/architecture magazine) for that Q&A column they always have in the front pages. It should appear towards the end of June. Having read TOKYO CLASSIFIEDS/METROPOLIS ever since I’ve been here, never missing an issue (except for weeks where I would have been away…

  • Threadless Sale

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    My favorite online tee shop, Threadless, has every tee on sale for $10 until June 6. Go, shop, enjoy! I’m probably going to pick up a few.

  • New at GENEVEtokyo

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    GENEVEtokyo has a new free paper out (5), as well as two new t-shirts (“Human” and “Melancholy”).

  • A Take on the Blogosphere

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    The Japanese blogoshpere is catching up, or then again maybe it isn’t (read the comment by Marxy at the bottom). Update: And the discussion continues.

  • Un bloc

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    I don’t like this (from Boing Boing): Loic sez, “The very official French ‘Journal Officiel’ has just decided what we, French should say when we say ‘weblog’. We should say ‘bloc notes’ which would translate back in english to ‘note pad’. The short version should be ‘bloc’ instead of ‘blog’.”