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Month: September 2007

  • PauseTalk Tonight

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    This month’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 13) happens tonight at Cafe Pause, with the usual start time of 19:30. Looking forward to it, as always!

  • Remember Le Corbusier at MAM

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    What you see here is a timelapse video shot by Michael Thorsby (PMKFA) last week (August 25) during the “Remember Le Corbusier” installation/atelier, presented as part of the current Le Corbusier retrospective at the Mori Art Museum, and produced by Tremors Were Forever (Assistant, Item Idem, and Loris Greaud).

  • The Japanese Tradition

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    Momus points us — accompanied by commentary, of course — to “The Japanese Tradition,” a series of nine shorts, available on DVD, by comedy duo Rahmenz (you may better know them as the duo in the Japanese “PC/Mac” commercials from Apple) and Japan Culture Lab. To view all of them, just go to the YouTube…

  • PingMag: More Japanese Package Design

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    Tokyo-based designer Bianca Beuttel continues her series on Japanese package design for PingMag, this time with a focus on the beautiful and fancy. All the great photos included in the article were shot by Bianca as well.

  • 20th Century Boys TV Series

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    Great, great news! Naoki Urasawa’s 20TH CENTURY BOYS is going to be made into an animated series, set to debut early next year. There’s even a small promo on the official site. The anime adaptation of MONSTER ended up being one of the last great series I’ve followed, and even though I’ve read all of…

  • Standing for Evangelion

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    How popular is the new Evangelion remake movie (first of 4), EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE [NOT] ALONE, which debuted yesterday? According to Anime News Network, the movie “played to standing-room-only audiences in Tokyo-area theaters from morning to evening.” Also, the film included a preview of the second episode, which showed new EVA designs, and a…