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Month: June 2009

  • Carl Randall's Portrait Project

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    Carl Randall is a Ph.D. student in oil painting at Tokyo National University of Arts, and he’s looking for volunteers for a new project. He’s currently on the lookout for hundreds of people to pose for portraits that would appear on large canvases, and later exhibited in Tokyo and London. If interested, you can get…

  • When at Narita

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    When at Narita and looking to pick up something to read on your flight, I would indeed highly recommend getting a copy of Arcade Mania. Thanks Audrey, who snapped the photo this morning as she heads to Sweden.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Mikiya Kobayashi‘s Tate Otama (above), new lamp shades from Daisuke Hiraiwa, and DI CLASSE‘s Nude Lamp.

  • Uniqlo Shinjuku

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    I haven’t had a chance to check it out for myself yet, but Designboom has posted a few photos from the newly opened Uniqlo megastore in Shinjuku — it was designed by Nicolas Gwenael’s Curiosity.

  • Blossom

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    Interesting new technique used by architect Ryuji Nakamura to create this flower pattern pictured above. More details at PSFK.

  • Cadavres Exquis

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    Designboom has a rather nice gallery of shots from Jules Julien’s “Cadavres Exquis” exhibition at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama. The show runs until August 2.

  • PauseTalk Tonight

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    Just your friendly reminder that tonight (June 1) is indeed PauseTalk Vol. 32. Start time is 20:00 as always, and as I’ve mentioned before, the cafe will be entirely reserved for the event, so we should be able to accommodate everyone. Hope to see lots of you there!