Month: July 2009

  • Minimal Tokyo!

    Paul Snowden has produced a rather nice tee for Minimal Tokyo as part of his “Wasted German Youth” series. Wish I could have attended Ivan‘s event last week at the Vitamin Water event space in Harajuku.

  • Commercial Photo

    Nice to see some of Josh Lieberman‘s photos appear in last month’s issue (July 2009) of Commercial Photo. Josh is an architectural photographer I met earlier this year when he attended an edition of PauseTalk.

  • Second Life Project

    As a follow-up to JJ‘s “Second Life and the Future of the Music Industry” exhibition from earlier this year, he’s put together a site that looks at what was covered in the show. He also wrote a piece on the project in last month’s issue of J@pan Inc.

  • Be Your Own Figure

    I am very, very tempted by this: Bandai’s Jibun Damashii, a made-to-order figure that uses a photo you send for the face, at a cost of 13,650 yen. It was shown at last week’s International Tokyo Toy Show. Via Japan Today.

  • Zinester Interviewed

    TABlog covers the zine scene, and also interviews Keisuke Narita, owner of the Irregular Rhythm Asylum “radical info-shop” in Shinjuku.

  • Published

    Megumi (Assistant) is readying for a new exhibition, “Published,” at Art Center Ongoing in Kichijoji (July 29 to August 9), and it will involve quite a few related events — you’ll find more details in the TAB entry. The opening happens Wednesday night (July 29, from 19:00), and will involve a sound project with Micke…

  • Sound Gardening

    TABlog has a write-up on Philippe Chatelain‘s latest “Sound Gardening” event, held last week. Hope I can attend the next one in September.

  • My Dear Horse

    My Dear Horse, SoccerBoy‘s first “official” mixtape, available only from HMV in Japan (comes out August 1).