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Month: June 2006

  • Instant Drawing Machine in NYC

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    Nice to see that the Nakaochiai Gallery project “Instant Drawing Machine” is set to get sampled in NY! The Nakaochiai Gallery born INSTANT DRAWING MACHINE is about to go on exhibit for the first time at The Drawing Center, New York City. Crust and Dirt’s (Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, San Francisco and Clint Taniguchi, Tokyo) playful…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    TITLE (76) offers up a “Tokyo Relax Tour,” which is well worth picking up as it has some attractive picks — the feature even includes a tilt shift lens shot by photographer of the year (in my book at least) Naoki Honjo! There’s also a rather nice survey of the works of design unit Intentionallies.…

  • Pause and Effect

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    The tilt shift lens photography (or imitation thereof) madness continues, with this contribution from David Macklem, one of our PauseTalk participants, who remixed an old picture I had taken of Cafe Pause. I quite like the result.

  • Bitter*Girls

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    Can’t get enough of tilt shift lens photography? A reader sent me a link to this great photolog by someone who goes by the name Bitter*Girls.

  • D-1 by Dirk

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    Nice new Canned Coffee review for Dydo’s D-1 Coffee by Dirk Schwieger. Read the whole thing here.

  • Tokyo Subway Map

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    A reader sent me in this link, for a Tokyo subway map decal you can put on your iPod.

  • Bowling, Beer, and Soccer

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    Last night I went out and bowled for the first time in Japan (and first time in ages) and had an absolute blast. Now, I’m sure bowling in North America has also been updated since the last time I played (probably 7-8 years ago), but I was really taken in by all the high-tech aspects…

  • Bandai Museum

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    If you don’t read my weekly Gridskipper contributions, I’d like to point out that one of my posts last week was for my recent visit to the Bandai Museum in Chiba, for which I also put up a Flickr photoset with 34 pictures.