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Month: February 2008

  • Rei Kawakubo Profiled

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINES profiles Rei Kawakubo, the designer behind Comme des Garçons. Via PSFK.

  • New Sky Crawlers Trailer

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    The official site for Mamoru Oshii’s upcoming animated film, THE SKY CRAWLERS, is streaming a new trailer. It also announced the release date: August 2. Via Anime News Network.

  • PingMag: Tomoko Sawada

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    PingMag has a profile on Tomoko Sawada, a Kobe-based artist/photographer whose work I’ve been a fan of for a few years now. I absolutely love her photo booth series, part of which is pictured above.

  • Bingo Was Its Name-o

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    What does Ian Lynam do when he heads back home for the holidays? He gets inspired by the games of bingo he plays with the family, and creates a new “typeface,” which you can get here. Reminds me that I really need to do a full-on presentation of the work he did for me on…

  • The Lobby in Osaka

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    Remember Claska‘s first-floor The Lobby? It’s now turned into a bookstore and cafe located in Osaka. I wonder if the original one will still be part of the new Claska, once it re-opens on March 29.

  • The Return of Smart Girls

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    SMART GIRLS, “the world’s favorite hipster booby magazine” (so says Marxy), is back on newsstands. It had stopped a while back — you may remember the final issue, featuring a pictorial by Karia Nomoto — after founder and photographer Yasumasa Yonehara had a falling out with the publisher, but Yonehara is again involved in this…

  • Relocations

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    The latest TABlog entry runs down a few gallery relocations, including news that the main Nadiff bookstore will re-open in Ebisu, sharing a building with the Magical Artroom gallery. Magical Artroom will move to Ebisu, sharing a building with the Nadiff bookshop, which recently left its well-known location in Harajuku. Taro Nasu Gallery will move…

  • Art Space Tokyo

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    Chin Music Press is at it again, and even though you know I can’t help but show love to them, I’m here to inform you that you WILL be pre-ordering their upcoming release NOW! ART SPACE TOKYO: AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO THE TOKYO ART WORLD is a guide to twelve of Tokyo’s art spaces by…