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Month: May 2006

  • Karte

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    Mumbleboy has directed a music video for Shugo Tokumaru‘s “Karte” — my favorite track on his last album. Link via Videos.antville.org.

  • Tachinomiya

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    The NEW YORK TIMES has an article up on the growing popularity of the tachinomiya (standing bar) in Tokyo.

  • Tokyo Cityscape Rug

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    Launch Design Partner, a Swedish design company, bring you this Tokyo map, part of their Cityscape rug series (they also have one for Stockholm). The plan on taking online orders starting May 15.

  • Stamping

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    At Muji you can decorate tote bags now, like Yuko is doing here. It’s really cheap, with the three sizes going for 50, 70, and 100 yen.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Tokyo Art Beat Original Fake You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Super Robot

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    PingMag interviews design unit Super Robot.

  • More or Enough

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    Today marks the release date of Taichi’s new album on the Revirth label, MORE OR ENOUGH. I wrote a review of it for the latest issue of OK FRED — I even alluded to it in the coffee review I wrote for the Canned Coffee site — but because of a production error it didn’t…

  • Podcasting in Metropolis

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    Last week’s issue of METROPOLIS had a feature on podcasting — coinciding with the launch of the Metropolis podcast. They also add a sidebar for “Ten More Recommended Japan Podcasts in English,” and two podcasts that I’m involved with, Tokyo Boy and Radio OK Fred, got mentioned. Nice! OK, time for updates on those podcasts.…