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Month: August 2005

  • Shobo Shobo BBQ

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    If you’ve been enjoying the Shobus Diary, the following events are going to be a nice way to take in the Shobo Shobo experience live. For about one month, Shobo Shobo mastermind Mehdi Hercman is traveling all across Japan in a bus, together with O.lamm, Domotic and some other folks of the French label Active…

  • RATN: J

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    I was late discovering Tujiko Noriko, but I’ve become a fan, and this new collaboration album, RATN: J, sounds like something I’m set to enjoy (as well as news of the new Disques Corde label). In the first of a series of collaborations this summer, Tujiko Noriko teams up with Japanese breakbeat master Riow Arai…

  • The Wired Momus

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    Momus is now writing a bi-monthly column over at Wired News, and the first edition, “Reading Green Tea Leaves in Tokyo,” is now online. My first Wired column is online. It’s a piece called “Reading Green Tea Leaves in Tokyo” and it’s about how capitalism shows different faces in different places, how some of its…

  • MXUT

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    While I was busy enjoying my time in NYC, our second Radio OK Fred guest mix got released in the form of Marxy + U.T.’s MXUT megamix hour of fun (hopefully the first of many)! In his own words: We went back in time to the year 1993 to ask 75 middle-school students what they…

  • It Grows

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    Chin Music Press’ Craig has something growing just outside his window, which inspired him to create a neat little time lapse movie.

  • GQ Japan Vs. Boing Boing

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    GQ Japan published an article on the Boing Boing site — here’s a translation.

  • Make Mine Micro

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    I love these little micro-homes (a bit like the Muji+Infill Ki no Ie). From Boing Boing: These “Micro-Compact Homes” were designed at the Technical University of Munich and the Tokyo Institute of Technoloogy, inspired by the highly designed compact spaces in first-class airplane cabins and Smart cars. They are lightweight, transportable, and cost a mere…

  • The Boy Is Back in Town

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    Well, after a 14-hour flight from NYC, we were back home in our apartment last night at 5, and I only made it to 7 before falling asleep. It’s now 3 am and I’m completely awake — the joys of jet lag! Expect things to finally get back on track here as normal life now…

  • Google Maps Versus TAB

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    This site uses Google Maps in conjunction with Tokyo Art Beat listings. Link via Archinect.

  • Tokyo Color Designer

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    As some of you have noticed, I had to take down a post recently regarding design work as it wasn’t meant for the general public. This one, from a recruiter at Nike, is: It’s time to determine where you work, and not the other way around. From guitarists to graphic designers to people whose skills…