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Month: March 2009

  • Nana + Seven

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    Anna Antoniades — under her brand Nana + Seven — is now selling a few of her designs at Tokyomade. She’ll also be participating in next week’s “Fragment Vol. 4” event at SuperDeluxe.

  • Fragment Vol. 4

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    Masao — of Tokyomade — is presenting a fourth edition of his “Fragment” art fair, to take place March 22 at SuperDeluxe in Roppongi (15:00-21:00, 1,000 yen at the door). Here’s how he describes the event: TokyoMade presents Fragment Vol. 4, the first anniversary of the art and fashion event in Tokyo. The concept of…

  • Prescription for Sleep

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    My friend Mark Cooke, a Tokyo-based game developer, has just released the first iPhone app he’s worked on, a sleep-inducing visualizer called Prescription for Sleep, featuring music composed by Norihiko Hibino — he’s best known for his music on the Metal Gear Solid series. Read more about this interesting app on Mark’s blog, or at…

  • Studio Voice 400

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    Studio Voice is currently celebrating its 400th issue — now on newsstands. Marie, who has contributed quite a bit to the magazine, translates this bit about the issue (for the magazine’s website): Beginning with its seminal reportage on late ’70s punk scene, STUDIO VOICE has underwent a diversification in the ’80s and segmentation in the…

  • Shibuya Girls Collection '09 S/S

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    Great write-up of this past weekend’s “Shibuya Girls Collection ’09 S/S” by Marxy over at Clast.

  • The Process of Chris Kirby

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    I’ve been meaning to highlight this: last week over at PechaKucha Daily I posted all of Chris Kirby‘s presentation from PKN Tokyo Vol. 59, in which he walked us though the slipcasting process used in his “Negative Series.”

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Idea Internationalt’s USB card reader, Barouche‘s alarm clock, and designs by Michio Akita.

  • Patrick Macias Has the Otaku Power

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    Patrick Macias is in town for a bit — still jet-lagged — and is giving a talk, “Otaku Power: Trivia, Desire, and Transformation,” at Temple University this Friday (March 13, 18:30). More details here.