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Month: January 2009

  • TAB Event Listings on Sony Bravia TVs

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    Tokyo Art Beat invades Sony Bravia TVs! I’ll let Paul explain what this is all about.

  • Objectified

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    Gary Hustwit — director of the documentary Helvetica — has a new film in the works called Objectified, covering the world of product designer. Why do I feature it here? In honor of the cameo by Naoto Fukasawa, who closes off the trailer. Via Designboom.

  • High-Kick Girl Trailer

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    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trailer that better lives up to a film’s title than this one for High-Kick Girl. Via Warren Ellis.

  • Less Shopping Time at Department Stores

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    Economic crunch in Japan example #46: Tokyomango reports that the Mitsukoshi and Isetan department stores — they are both owned by the same company — will now be opened six days a week instead of the usual seven, also reducing their daily hours of operation. Update: Seems like there was an error in translating the…

  • Off to HK

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    I’m off to Hong Kong until Sunday — accompanying my wife who is attending a conference — and so expect things to be slow here until then.

  • KeKe Remixed

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    Shantell Martin is kinking off 2009 with another remix project — you can see results from last year’s “On the March Remixed” project here — this time with the CD jacket she created for Tokyo-based group KeKe as the piece to be remixed. Here’s the deal (taken from Shantell’s announcement): A. Download/print out the drawing.…

  • Beams Tokyo Cultuart

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    Cscout Japan takes us on a tour of the newly opened Beams Tokyo Cultuart select shop in Harajuku — it’s part of the Beams empire of stores in the area. The product info browser — done through your iPhone — is a rather neat idea, especially that they’ve made it bilingual.

  • MoCo Loco Top 5

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    Over at MoCo Loco, all contributors were invited to offer their top 5s for 2008. Here is mine, chosen from all the items that appeared in my “This Week from Tokyo” posts.