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Month: June 2005

  • A Second Look at the Gross National Cool

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    Marxy adds to the Gross National Cool debate by sharing the thoughts of scholar Keiko Kawamata (from her paper “The Current State of the Japanese Content Industries”) on the topic. One point where I disagree is when she claims that “television anime viewing rates are down, and an overproduction of titles has lead to a…

  • And I Was Thinking Nipples

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    Question of the week (as posed by Momus): “Is it okay to be a nipposexual?” It’s a bit of a response to a recent post and thread over at Yuki’s site, which you’ll find here. My take? Well, nevermind the fact that my wife is Japanese (and that we met in China), I must admit…

  • Literally Threadless

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    Damn. I was planning on ordering a bunch of tees at Threadless before the end of the sale (June 10), and while checking out the site yesterday, I noticed that there’s nothing still available (they’ve sold out of loads of stuff) that I want (or don’t already have). Guess I’ll have to wait a while…

  • Gas News

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    The latest from Gas: The latest Gas Book (20) covers London based artists Susumu Mukai and Will Sweeney. It goes on sale June 10. They will celebrate the release with the exhibition “Alakazam!” at Beams T in Harajuku (June 10-26). There will be an opening night party at Saloon Daikanyama, with the artists also DJing…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    Following last issue’s elimination of the English translations, the new issue of COMPOSITE now goes back to its old numbering (34). As for the content, most of it is devoted to Ecocolo International 2005, with cover girl Chiaki Kuriyama also appearing in a pictorial of New York eco spots. The latest BRUTUS covers yoga, and…

  • Design Column for June

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    My new design column is up at Tokyo Q. I talk about the latest issue of +81, the work of Kenya Hara, the recent surge in design-friendly shops/cafes closings, and the Yamaha Electric Commuter.

  • Keitai City

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    DoCoMo launches an international architectural design competition: Keitai City.

  • PSP for the Flesh

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    It was just a matter of time (form Kotaku): Japanese porn company Glay’z just announced that five of their quality flesh films are coming to the portable. The intriguingly titled The Nurse of a Big Breast will join Make a play of Riko Tachibana and Soap Play of Anna Kaneshiro in early July as the…