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Profile in Travel+Leisure

I’m told that the profile TRAVEL+LEISURE did on me is in the current issue (September 2007), although I haven’t seen it yet. I look forward to seeing how the photo, shot by Takashi Yasumura, turned out.

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This Week at MoCo Loco

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My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco. This week I cover the two new products from Kyouei (Umbrella Pot and Topography Soup Plate), an event for 60VISION, and Bridge Design‘s HANA-MI.

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Photography

Enoshima Graffiti

Some graffiti shot by Tim Rudder at Enoshima.

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Design

On Design for August 2007

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This month’s edition of my “On Design” column is in today’s THE JAPAN TIMES, and can be found online here. In it, I cover KYOSHO‘s MANOI PF01 hobby robot, the MACINARI-TAKUMI pens and pencils, POM2‘s “Mine-Remove Sticker Program,” Flames‘ TU-KI light, and Flask’s Flower Kitchen Clip.

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New Karl Escritt T-Shirts

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Kyoto-based Karl Escritt is had created a new collection of t-shirts for Eno in Shanghai. You can see all the designs here, and it seems that there will be a full online shop up within a few weeks.

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TB.Musica 2

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Yes, it’s been just over 1 year since I posted the first episode of my TB.Musica podcast series, and finally, here is episode 2 (and a link to the feed). For those new to this, TB.Musica is a music show in which I play 6 tracks from Japanese artists. This time I also added chapters, so you can easily skip to whatever track you like.

TB.Musica 2 (21.4MB, 22:40)

  • Kiiiiiii – “Hot but Milky like Hot Milk”
  • Capsule – “5ive Star”
  • COPTER4016882 – “Rising Core”
  • Yukari Fresh – “YKR PLYS TH GTR & DRMS vs. Dirty Leopard YOOX”
  • The Lowbrows – “Blue”
  • Green & Ilpo – “4869”
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TABlog: Tokyo Galleries

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TABlog has a nice round-up of the latest generation of galleries to dot the city’s artscape.

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Photography Web

Tokyo Wonderland

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I mentioned Tokyo-based photographer Jonathan Savoie a while back (he’s from Eastern Canada, like me), and this time it’s for an online project called Tokyo Wonderland, which accompanies a book to be released in the fall.

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PingMag: Sou Sou’s Jikatabi

PingMag covers modern jikatabi (“split-toe canvas shoes with rubber soles that are favored by construction workers”) designs from Kyoto-based Sou Sou.

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Design

Classic JAL Bags

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Patrick Benny went to Haneda Airport yesterday to pick up some re-issues of classic Japan Air Lines flight bags, both pictured above. They were limited to 1000, so are probably all gone now.