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Month: October 2008

  • The TAB Bubble Machine

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    Tired of browsing Tokyo Art Beat using boring old lists? Time to access “The Bubble Machine,” an interface created by Reuben Stanton using TAB’s open source API.

  • PingMag: Tonerico

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    PingMag interviews Japanese design unit Tonerico.

  • The Museum of Stories

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    Everyone’s favorite OK Fredder, Audrey Fondecave, has a new exhibition, “Le musee des histoires – The Museum of Stories,” that opens today at La Galerie des Nakamura (it runs until November 3). The opening reception is tomorrow night (October 18, 18:00), but is proceeded by a talk given by Egaitsu Hiroshi at 16:00. There will…

  • Interview with Assistant’s Megumi Matsubara

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    Assistant‘s Megumi gets interviewed over at Shift.

  • Polypunk 35

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    Digiki has a new Polypunk out (35), “People and Places,” selected in Tokyo and LA.

  • Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in Tokyo

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    The premise for “Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School” is awesome: illustrators/artists get together regularly to sketch a burlesque performer. The event in Tokyo is held every month at The Pink Cow in Shibuya. The next one happens next week, October 21, with the sketching starting at 19:00 (entry is 2,000 yen, which includes a drink). It…

  • Meeting Modernity Postcard Set

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    As part of the Neojaponisme-produced “Meeting Modernity” exhibition — recently held at the Young Art gallery in LA — sets of eight postcards, wrapped in handmade envelopes, were also put on sale. There are still a few sets available, and you can purchase them online here.

  • Naoki Urasawa’s Billy Bat

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    Next up for Naoki Urasawa (Monster, 20th Century Boys), a new manga series called Billy Bat in which he supposedly brings back a “lost American Hero” from the forties. The new series will appear in Kodansha’s Morning comics magazine, starting this week. Via Anime News Network.