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Month: December 2005

  • Paper Intimacy

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    From Tropolism: While most of Yuko Nishimura’s paper-folding exercises are wall-hung objects, the object shown above portrays a potentially thrilling direction. Way past a simple generic Asian room divider, the canopy shows how the complex operations on a simple material can result in…temporary, disposable, and intimate architecture.

  • Macias TV

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    Patrick Macias — that media whore — taped an episode of EIGO DES SHABERU NIGHT in Akihabara today. The episode is set to air January 2 on NHK. Update: Metropolis’ editor-in-chief Charles Spreckley will also be featured on the same episode.

  • A Kimono for Your Laptop

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    From Cool Hunting: How do you get from a Kimono to a laptop case? Designer Katja Hettler and architect Jula Tüllmann (hettler.tuellmann) won the YOnoBI design competition, which sent them to Japan to collaborate with Mizuta, a manufacturer of traditional Kimono fabric. The upshot was their first folding laptop case made from Kimono material. The…

  • PXR-5 Shopping

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    Remember that Michael Young-designed PXR-5 I wanted so bad a while back? Seems like this site has gotten exclusive US distribution rights to it, and they will be selling it for 24 hours tomorrow.

  • Nintendo DS Kiosks

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    Nintendo decides to take on the PlayStationSpots head-on! Nintendo has allowed Japanese DS owners to download demo games at specially marked kiosks in the past for preview before buying. Well now the company will allow everybody to demo up to 30 games including Mario Kart DS at new DS demo kiosks that feature a playable…

  • Slicing Up Eyeballs!

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    Tonight. Zepp Tokyo. 19:00. The Pixies. Oh my. Update: Yuko was making fun of me because I’m obviously in full Pixies mode, music blaring in the apartment, running around and stuff. And so she drew this picture, which is supposed to represent what happens when you go to the show and they play none of…

  • AKARI

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    Another chance to catch some more works from Isamu Noguchi. Following the show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, this next Isamu Noguchi exhibition closes up on the famous “Akari”, the popular lamp series made up of more than 100 different models that was launched in 1951. In addition to an exhibition introducing the…

  • Japanese Girls Love Gay Boys

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    Yuki takes us on a tour of a few of her favorite shoujou manga featuring gay boys, a genre that seems to be rather popular here. At the other end of the spectrum, Momus shares his love for Japanese AV.

  • Do You Know Pre-Order

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    The fine folks at Chin Music Press are about to launch the follow-up to KUHAKU, this time in the form of a collection of stories and essays about New Orleans (with all proceeds of pre-orders going to relief organizations) called DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS. Pre-orders start today (I’ve paid…

  • Maiko Kuzunishi’s 2006 Calendar Project

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    For the past year I’ve been receiving these beautiful monthly postcards as part of Maiko Kuzunishi‘s calendar project (I talked about it previously here). She’s got something new for 2006, this time a collection of 6 silkscreened limited edition prints (150). See more images, and get info on how to order, here.