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Month: April 2006

  • International Portable Film Festival

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    Continuing with the video theme, here’s the International Portable Film Festival, which looks like a fairly ambitious project. Already showing is their “Six Cities” program. The Six Cities project features the work of filmmakers from around the world including Tokyo, New York, Montreal, London, Melbourne and Vancouver. Each filmmaker was asked to create a film…

  • Mirrorball Nippon 2

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    Time to get ready for another music video festival in town, this time courtesy of Mirrorball Nippon, and taking place at everyone’s favorite creative venue, SuperDeluxe. The music video showcase Mirrorball, screened annually at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. To mark the occasion, the acclaimed event will be presented…

  • Color Waves

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    Hiroaki Koshiba is presenting a new exhibition, “Color Waves,” at The Pink Cow this month (until April 30), and it will culminate in a closing party and live painting session on the last day, from 18:00 to 22:00 (the live painting will happen from 19:00 to 20:00).

  • A Swarm of Angels

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    I’ve been meaning to write something about A Swarm of Angels for a while now. In short, “A Swarm of Angels is a project to create a £1 million film and give it away to one million people in one year.” It’s the brainchild of Matt Hanson, the original founder of the onedotzero digital film…

  • Devilrobots Exhibition 2006

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    Saw this at the Shift blog with no details other than the image. I imagine TAB will have more info later on in the month.

  • Last Week at Gridskipper

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    Harrods Brompton A Bape Tour of Harajuku You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • OK Fred 7

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    As I mentioned in last week’s “This Week in Magazines” post, the new issue of OK FRED (7) magazine is out — covering the world of fashion — and they’ve updated their site to reflect it, including ways to order the issue online. In it I contribute my regular “Sekai no Mise” column, as well…

  • On Design for March (Online)

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    I forgot to add a link (free registration required after a week) last week to the online version of the March edition of my “On Design” column. As mentioned, it covers wooden furniture, including Shuichiro Koizumi’s Zumi Stool, Tadao Hoshino’s Aphrodite, Masayuki Kurokawa’s chair for the Nextmaruni collection, and a wagon set from Muji.