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Month: December 2005

  • Mario as Okamura

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    I love the TV campaign for MARIO KART DS that stars my favorite Japanese comedians, the manzai duo 99, and Kotaku points to this page where you can watch them online.

  • Tokyo Hipsters Club

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    I was emailed about the Tokyo Hipsters Club (I can’t help but choke everytime I see/write that name), and answered by sending in a few pics I took last month (taken during Tokyo Design Week). They’ve been posted here.

  • Designboom’s Cart Shelter

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    Fresh from their participation at last month’s 100% Design Tokyo exhibition, Designboom has now launched a new international design competition, “Shelter in a Cart,” with the theme of homelesness. The call for entries is now open, and deadline for submissions is March 10, 2006. More details here.

  • Digital Art Festival Tokyo

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    Caught this on Matt Hanson’s Eternal Gaze digital film blog: Promising next edition of Digital Art Festival Tokyo (9-12 December, 2005): “Shock your brain with the unknown. See it! Hear it! Touch it! Digital art satisfies your brain’s desire to know. Here you’ll find art that uses digital technology, including computer graphics, animation, web design,…

  • Go, Go Mario Kart!

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    Guess what came out today? I couldn’t help myself, and had to pick it up on my way to work. Good thing I had enough Bic Camera points to cover it!

  • Xbox 360 Countdown: Who Cares

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    The Xbox 360 gets released on Saturday here in Japan, and it seems like (not surprisingly) they failed on getting people excited about the console — I know I don’t really care. I know I tossed off a throwaway joke about Japan and the 360 at the end of my last post about the console.…

  • 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.