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Month: May 2008

  • MUJI Award 03

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    MUJI has announced details on this year’s edition of their “MUJI Award” competition. The theme for 2008 is “Found MUJI.” From the site: What can you create, when considering the life, culture and tradition of a particular region of the world, giving it a MUJI viewpoint, while at the same time respecting its origins? The…

  • Free Legal Anime on YouTube

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    Looks like Kadokawa — the company behind the terrific THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA series — will be allowing some of its content to be posted on YouTube for free viewing, starting next month. Here’s a link to Kodakawa’s YouTube channel. Via Japan Probe.

  • Tenmyouya Hisashi’s Gundam Sells Big

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    Looks like artist Tenmyouya Hisashi is raking in the dough. At a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong, the Gundam painting pictured above was sold for around US$600,000. Via Kotaku.

  • Neojaponisme: Emori Takeaki

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    Emori Takeaki of iconic band Citrus gets the interview treatment over at Neojaponisme. Also, listen to the Neojaponisme podcast, with David and Trevor chatting about the band, and playing a few tracks.

  • Art Space Ginza

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    The Art Space Tokyo maps keep on coming, with Ginza (the gallery covered in the book is Tokyo Gallery + BTAP) now available as a downloadable PDF.

  • Mixed Media Art Project

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    At the last PauseTalk (Vol. 21), artist Robin Anthony Coe talked about the mixed media art projects he’s worked on, and that he’s currently preparing a fourth one, and would love to get some new collaborators. A few words from Robin: What is the next project? A mixed media art work combining word, image and…

  • Kait Workshop

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    Dezeen posts a few photos of the Kait workshop at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology. The complex was designed by Junya Ishagami Architects. I would have loved to get access to a work space like that when I was a student. In fact, I’d love have access to a work space like that now!

  • Architectural Papercraft

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    FOTOMO is a Japanese book that includes papercraft cutouts of city sights. Looks like it would let you create quite the nice diorama. Via Boing Boing.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Lemnos‘ Spread Clock, Takumi Yoshida‘s Revolve power strip, an exhibition of works by Ryuji Nakamura, and Ryue Nishizawa’s participation in the “Some Ideas on Living…” exhibition.

  • The Lonesome Puppy

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    Yoshitomo Nara has released his first children’s book, THE LONESOME PUPPY. You’ll find a few excerpts here. Via Boing Boing.