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Month: January 2008

  • 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.

  • Off to Taipei

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    I’m off to Taipei in a couple of hours and will be back on Saturday, so if you’re trying to reach me by email, I won’t be able to get back to you until then. I’ve got my Travelers’s Notebook from Midori, and hope to have some interesting things to add to it!

  • Heisuke Kitazawa

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    I’m really enjoying the works of illustrator/designer Heisuke Kitazawa. The image pictured above can be bought as poster. Via StartDrawing.org. Update (16/11/13): The image is no longer available.