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Month: May 2005

  • Something Smells

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    Shibuya stinks.

  • Gridskipper Round-up

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    Well, my weeklong stint at Gridskipper is over, and again, it was a blast. Here’s a complete round-up of all my Tokyo-related posts: Two in Shibuya Seleqlo J Select Urbanation a-bridge hhstyle.com/casa OK Fred Pause

  • Omaru Chair

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    You’ll find two of these Omaru chairs at Pause right now. They sell for 80 000 yen.

  • Design Column for May

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    My latest design column is up at Tokyo Q. Ando’s latest, Graniph, Dick Bruna, and more.

  • Momus Radio

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    Momus’ collection of audio blogs finally has its own podcast feed.

  • Mayonaka no Yajisan Kitasan

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    The film looks like fun, and now comes this exhibition to help celebrate it: The genial writer Kankuro Kudo and the charismatic manga artist Shiriagarikotobuki present the movie exhibition “Mayonaka no Yajisan Kitasan”, featuring:
- the costumes and stage elements used in the play
- a reenactment of the famous “Oni no gojusanji” scene, a complex mix…

  • Watch Porn

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    Some cool Japanese watches. I’ve actually been without one for going on 4-5 months now, ever since the battery in my Starck Fossil watch died (and I’ve been too lazy to get a new one).

  • Gamecube Advance?

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    Ohmygod. I don’t usually post possible fakes, but if this is true — a Gamecube Advance (which I’m assuming would play all Gamecube games you already own) is just way too exciting! Link to the Joystiq post (includes one more pic of it closed, with data readout on the cover).

  • Killer Idea

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    Nothing to do with Tokyo or Japan, but this has got to be my favorite Marxy post ever. Wait, actually, I can relate this to Japan, since that game pretty much killed off the original Atari VCS, which then let Nintendo explode on the scene with its Famicom system (or NES, as we knew it…

  • Sony Sucks

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    You all know the story behind my love-hate relationship with my PSP, and then reading this (the PSP went on sale in South Korea) just angered me even more: Kevin Kang, spokesman at Sony Computer Entertainment Korea, denied there was a major problem. He claimed that South Korean customers were too sensitive to dead pixels…