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Month: May 2007

  • PauseTalk Cancellation

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    It looks like scheduling the next edition at the tail-end of the Golden Week was not the best of ideas. The May 7 edition of PauseTalk is cancelled, but we’ll be back next month, June 4.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Hitotoki Tokyo Guide You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • TB.Pensar 005

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    What is TB.Pensar? Find out here. It’s Golden Week — or GW, as the cool kids’s call it — the weather’s nice, and as a result my mail correspondence and postings here have suffered. But as you’ve probably noticed, I took the day to catch up on things, hence the 12 new posts today (including…

  • Naked Tokyo: 07 [Portraits]

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    The Naked Tokyo Collective is set to produce the one-day “Naked Tokyo: 07 [Portraits]” exhibition at SuperDeluxe. The Naked Tokyo Collective applies its signature mix of shock and serenity, outrageous tableaux and seductive views, to the art of contemporary portraiture. In considering the theme: Contemporary Portraiture from Tokyo, Naked Tokyo artists were encouraged to explode…

  • Japanamerica Night

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    Roland Kelts — that’s Mr. JAPANAMERICA — is back in town, and he’s participating in an event this coming Sunday (May 6, 19:00) at the Pink Cow in Shibuya, an evening of “Japanese Pop Culture, Design, Anime, Manga and Music.” A lineup of leading edge anime producers and manga publishers–Gonzo/GDH and Studio 4C, among others–…

  • Kamishibai Modern International Performance

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    I first met Suzu a few months back at a PauseTalk meetup, and at the time he talked about the Kamishibai shows — a form of Japanese traditional storytelling — he would participate in. He now sends me word of a show this Saturday (May 5) at Office in Gaienmae. He’ll give a workshop on…

  • MUJI Catalogues

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    As I was browsing through MUJI’s net store, I found this page hosting PDFs of all MUJI catalogues.

  • MINDSMOOTHER

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    My friend Maiko Kobayashi has a show coming up, “MINDSMOOTHER,” at Musee F in Omotesando (May 14-19), and has also put up this website with more details.