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Month: October 2006

  • Lumines Live! This Week!

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    Finally, after months of waiting, Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s LUMINES LIVE! (the site is currently down for maintenance) is coming out this week on Xbox Live Arcade (probably available for download later today or tomorrow). I absolutely love the PSP version of the game, and have been quite looking forward to this version — it’s going to…

  • The Tokyo Record Store Hunt

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    Gridskipper has a post up — not by me — with some good links on finding records stores in Tokyo. I’m thinking Patrick should also post an exhaustive listing of his favorite shops, since he’s always on the hunt, in order to keep his Tokyo Recohan online store stocked.

  • Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2006

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    Shift Blog has a post up on the upcoming “Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2006” (in December), which has certainly piqued my interest for the event.

  • QP Exhibition Report

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    Street artist QP had an exhibition at The Ghetto, and Patrick reports on the show (with pictures).

  • Marti Guixe at TRICO Gallery

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    This sounds like a terrific show, and I’m definitely going to try and make it to the reception party. TRICO who celebrated its 10th anniversary this year will be holding an exhibition for the Spanish prodigy Marti Guixe. Though he may not yet be well known here in Japan, Marti Guixe is a highly renowned…

  • Tokyo Fun Party Wants You

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    Big news from Digiki today, including word of the new Tokyo Fun Party label (the first two releases will be from Digiki and Chimidoro), of which Digiki is the A&R guy, and he’s already on the lookout for new sounds! The post also talks about some new projects he has in mind — get this…

  • Karl Escritt Exhibition at Cafe Pause

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    Kyoto-based graphic designer Karl Escritt‘s exhibition is now on at Cafe Pause, until October 22. I’ve put up a Flickr photoset of pics I took yesterday at the cafe. He also has postcards for sale, as well A4 and A3-sized prints (200 yen, 700 yen, and 1000 yen respectively). Update: The designer who created the bags…

  • Burton TYO

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    Burton just opened their first store in Japan — in Harajuku of course — and people who attended the opening received the tee and sticker pictured above. Link via Josh Spear.