Month: October 2008

  • TDW: PROTOTYPE02 , Generate’s Limited Editions, and Fragment

    Yes, Tokyo Design Week is just around the corner — I give a quick overview in today’s “On Design” column for The Japan Times — and although I don’t have time to give a detailed guide to what you should see, I do want to point out a few events. First up, “PROTOTYPE02,” the bigger…

  • Colette’s Sarah on Cat Street

    I have spies everywhere. Above, Colette‘s Sarah on Cat Street earlier today, photographed by Ian Luna.

  • Colette’s Sarah on Cat Street

    I have spies everywhere. Above, Colette‘s Sarah on Cat Street earlier today, photographed by Ian Luna.

  • Tokyolife Talkshow

    Had a great time at yesterday’s Tokyolife talkshow at Tsutaya in Roppongi, especially for the chance to meet Mika Ninagawa. Big thanks to Ian for asking me to do it. Pictured above on the panel (from left): Marie (our translator), Ninagawa-san, Ian Luna (editor and contributor to the book), and me. Note that Mika Ninagawa’s…

  • PingMag: Graffiti Japan

    Remo gets interviewed over at PingMag about his just-launched book, Graffiti Japan.

  • The Beast Player

    Some great news on the anime front: Starting January 10, NHK will begin airing The Beast Player, a series based on novels by Nahoko Uehashi, author of the Moribito novels. I absolutely loved the Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirit) series, and so quite happy to find out about this. The new series is…

  • TAB Fall 2008 T-Shirts

    Tokyo Art Beat’s 2008 Tokyo Collection of t-shirts expands, with two new models joining the previously released bunch. The new designs come courtesy of Paramodel (left) and So+Ba. Priced at 3,500 yen each — and lovingly printed by Sweatshop Union — best to order quick before they sell out.

  • PauseTalk Vol. 25

    Apologies for being so late on this — blame the Tokyo Game Show — but I’d like to thank everyone who came down to PauseTalk Vol. 25 earlier this month. We started as a rather small group, but it swelled up throughout the evening, and in the end we had a good bunch of people…