Author: Jean Snow

  • Photo Salad

    PauseTalker and photographer Stephen Lebovits — who also works at the Design Festa gallery — has posted an invitation for an upcoming photography-related event that’s happening there called “Photo Salad.” Design Festa is having a blow-out photo event next month – all 3 floors of the East Gallery will be taken over by Phat Photo…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 36 Participants

    A huge thanks again to everyone who made it to this past Monday’s PauseTalk Vol. 36. We were maybe a smaller group than last time — low twenties this time — but we all had a good time with the discussions, as well as the casual chats following the official session. Below is a partial…

  • Rroomm

    A fun idea, if possibly a maddening one: Rroomm is a clothing shop in Osaka that was recently renovated by architects Ninkipen, and the main feature is a series of eleven doors, six of which are fake. Via Dezeen.

  • TV Show

    “TV Show,” a great little animated music video for Takayuki Manabe, directed by Kousuke Sugimoto. Via Blitblit.

  • Secret Garden

    I have to say I’m quite a fan of these secret gardens you hear about, located on Tokyo rooftops. The one pictured above is not in Tokyo, but rather in Isezaki (Gunma prefecture), and was designed by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects. I’ve been told that KDa‘s Astrid Klein has one of her own.

  • Fixie Girl

    Tim Rudder took the afternoon to draw a girl on a fixed gear bike, and walks us through the process.

  • Plum Song

    Omodaka‘s “Plum Song” video, directed by Teppei Maki.

  • Portraits from PauseTalk Vol. 36

    I’ll have the list of participants from last night’s PauseTalk (Vol. 36) up later today or tomorrow, but in the meantime I wanted to share the latest round of portraits taken by Max Hodges, which are all viewable in this gallery. As with last time, I’m really loving these, and I’m hoping that Max keeps…