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Month: January 2008

  • Neojaponisme: Meta no Tame

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    Neojaponisme has just launched a new section, a sister blog of sorts, called Meta no Tame. I’ll let our dear leader explain what it’s all about. Since we set out to make Neojaponisme an austere “journal” and not a fun-town, what’s-up “blog,” the dialogue has somewhat suffered from our limited ability to talk directly and…

  • Underworld’s Book of Jam 2

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    Thanks to Yuki for pointing out that I make in appearance in Underworld‘s BOOK OF JAM 2: JAPAN, in the “Wayposts” section on page 47: SNOW, JEAN http://jeansnow.net An excellent blog to what is currently happening in Tokyo. Being a big fan of Underworld and all their creative work, this pleases me to no end.…

  • Bape Store Shibuya

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    The Wonderwall site updates with a gallery of shots of Bape Store Shibuya (13-17 Udagawacho). This month saw the opening of another Bape store designed by Katayama, Bape Store Harajuku (4-21-7 Jingumae).

  • In the Guardian

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    I get a nice mention (scroll down) in the Guardian: When it comes to art, design, fashion, and general avant-gardism in the Japanese capital, the blogosphere yields one clear scene-shaper. Jean Snow is a Tokyo creative svengali whose sitemeter reveals that he currently has 2,479 subscribers — in layman’s terms, his is a seriously popular…

  • The Analog Girl in Time

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    Singapore-based The Analog Girl, who performed last year at Cafe Pause, is included in this week’s issue of TIME (Vol. 171 No. 4, Asian edition), as one of the “Asian Acts to Watch in 2008.” They even mention the Cafe Pause show! Also, she’s just released a new EP, SOMETIME NEXT GALAXY, which you can…

  • Good Is Not Enough

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    Cool use of flash online as a promotion/ad for apartment developer MORIMOTO. It’s a recreation of this TV ad. Via SYTY.

  • Table Tennis Fashion

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    Andre Agassi did it in tennis, so why not ping-pong. Naomi Yotsumoto is a pro table tennis player getting a lot of attention for the outfits she wears. I guess she’s pretty good too! More here from Imprint Talk.

  • From Shibuya-kei to Akiba-kei

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    Over at the Clast blog, Marxy examines the relationship between Shibuya-kei and the newly-coined Akiba-kei.

  • HDR in Japan

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    The shot you see above (taken at the Oazo shopping center near Tokyo station) is part of the Flickr “Japan HDR” group. I’ve seen lots of HDR photography in the past, but never so many that come off as illustrations. Via Boing Boing.

  • Time: Swatch Japan’s Ginza HQ

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    I have a piece in this week’s issue of TIME (Vol. 171, No. 3, Asian edition), which you can read online here. It’s on Swatch Japan‘s HQ in Ginza, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center.