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Month: June 2005

  • Hyperpeople

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    This Saturday at the Nakaochiai Gallery: HYPERPEOPLE Saturday 18 June Entrance: FREE Doors open: 7pm (wine will be served) Screening: 7:30pm – 8:10pm MAP / CONTACT: http://nakaochiaigallery.com/en/access.htmlHYPERPEOPLE is a 40 minute presentation in English by digital guru MARK PESCE. It addresses how the trends of technology and digital media are shaping our relationship with friends…

  • Karas Rules My World

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    If you read my Tokyo Q anime column regularly, then you know I’ve been promising to review KARAS, one of the new shows (but not on TV, it’s an OVA) set to premiere this Spring, for a while now. I finally got a chance to see it this past weekend, and it led me to…

  • Takadanobaba

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    Even though I’ve lived in Tokyo for years now, I was in Takadanobaba (two stations away from where I live) for the very first time tonight. Met up with Craig, who brought me to a great little Okinawa restaurant (loved the taco rice), and then we sort of wandered around, ending up sitting under Waseda…

  • Shojo Beat

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    The first issue of SHOJO BEAT (previously mentioned here) is out in the US and Canada. It leads off with 100 pages of NANA. Here’s a review of the first issue. When I was at Junkudo the other day, I noticed they had quite a few volumes of NANA in French, and so grabbed the…

  • Icon Vs. Klein Dytham

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    ICON magazine has put a few articles from last month’s issue (24) online, including this profile on Tokyo’s Klein Dytham.

  • Open Nature

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    More on the ICC “Open Nature” show: This exhibition takes place at ICC, under the curation of Shikata Yukiko. But what seems like a rather straight project at first turned out to be slightly different, kind of softish in a way. That’s not only because the theme is nature. Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” (1970) for…

  • Sonore

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    Sonore is a France-based online shop that deals with Japanese releases, especially hard-to-find stuff. Patrick worked on the site (it just launched), and recommends a few albums.

  • OK Fred in Paris

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    The fifth issue of OK FRED (“This Is Our Tokyo”) is set to launch in Paris with a release party happening this Wednesday (June 15) at the Delaville Cafe. More info below: OK FRED #005 Launching Party June 15th (wed) at 8p.m. @ Delaville Cafe 34 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle (Metro Bonne Nouvelle) 01 48 24…