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Month: October 2007

  • Radio OK Fred at Celine Omotesando

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    Just a reminder that tonight (October 31, 18:00-20:00) is the first of two live sessions of Radio OK Fred at the Celine Omotesando store, part of Item Idem‘s installation for DesignTide. For this Halloween edition, we (me, Yoshi, Ay2, and Egaitsu Hiroshi) will have as guests Combo Piano, Yayako Uchida, and Umitaro Abe. Should be…

  • PingMag: TDW 2007 Survival Guide

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    As in years past, PingMag posts a nice survival guide for Tokyo Design Week.

  • PMKFA Updates

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    Micke (PMKFA) has updated his site with info and images on a few projects, including a live wall painting at a Uniqlo event, and the album covers for Kocky’s KINGDOME CAME and Lo-Fi-Fnk’s BOYLIFE.

  • Jean Snow and TDW

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    Despite my cold and the surge of work, I’m still ready and rarin’ to go for this week’s Tokyo Design Week festivities, and I wanted to post something to update you on my activities during the week. First, as you all know, we have the “Creative GBG” event happening at Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro, again…

  • TABlog: Tomoko Konoike Interview

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    TABlog posts another interview with the makers of the latest TAB t-shirt collection, this time with designer Tomoko Konoike.

  • PingMag: Naohiro Ukawa

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    PingMag interviews Naohiro Ukawa about his “A Series of Interpreted Catharsis episode 1 –Typhoon,” that appears as part of the current “Roppongi Crossing” exhibition at the Mori Art Museum.

  • Game Center CX

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    Brian Ashcraft writes up comedian Shinya Arino and his popular videogame-related TV show GAME CENTER CX for the latest issue of WIRED. Wired.com also includes a look at the set.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Tokyo Sweets Factory hhstyle.com/Limited You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Ghost Hound

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    For those who are wondering whey I didn’t post an anime season preview post this month, well, it’s because there’s pretty much nothing new in this latest TV season that I’ve been wanting to watch. Outside of the much-hyped new Gundam series — I’ve never been interested in Gundam, and so I don’t really see…

  • Rockin’ the Leopard!

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    As of yesterday, my MacBook Pro is sporting the nice new look of Leopard. Big thanks to my wife who stood in line at Tokyo University to pick up a copy — even though the Apple Store barely offers a school discount, at the university they were selling it for around 8000 yen, pretty much…