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  • Light Tracer

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    This is a follow-up for people that were at PauseTalk early on, when Bianca Beuttel was talking about one of her classmates’ interactive project, “Light Tracer.” New Zealander Karl D.D. Willis has created an installation that “invites the participant to write, draw and trace images in real physical space using a series of light sources.…

  • Instant Drawing Machine in NYC

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    Nice to see that the Nakaochiai Gallery project “Instant Drawing Machine” is set to get sampled in NY! The Nakaochiai Gallery born INSTANT DRAWING MACHINE is about to go on exhibit for the first time at The Drawing Center, New York City. Crust and Dirt’s (Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, San Francisco and Clint Taniguchi, Tokyo) playful…

  • PauseTalk Site Update

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    I’ve started adding more info to the PauseTalk site, in the form of a quick and dirty blog setup to update with various details. From now on, I’ll probably limit most of my PauseTalk-related postings to that site.

  • PechaKucha Night Article

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    As I mentioned yesterday, my cover story on “PechaKucha Night” for METROPOLIS, “20/20 Vision,” is out today, so you should be able to pick up the issue with the cover above as of now (and if you’re not in Tokyo, you can read it online here, and after a week here). Also, it seems that…

  • Laptop Orchestra & Ko Ishikawa

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    My friend Virginie, one of the organizers behind last year’s brilliant Design Tide “Fresh Touch” food design exhibition, sends word of an event she’s organizing at the lovely Harajuku Protestant Church later this month. “Laptop Orchestra & Ko Ishikawa” will bring together a collaboration of laptopism and traditional Japanese music (sho). It happens June 23…

  • Tenmyouya Hisashi Documentary

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    Just a reminder that the documentary NEAR EQUAL TENMYOUYA HISASHI, which I mentioned a while back, is currently playing at the Rise X theatre in Shibuya. Sunday screenings are shown with English subtitles, and entry is only 1000 yen.

  • La Querencia Peligrosa

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    Patrick checks out a new QP exhibition, “1+1=333,” in Nakano.

  • PauseTalk Off to a Good Start

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    We had the first edition of PauseTalk last night, and I have to say that I’m really happy with the way it went. We got a great group of people together — including an architect, an artist, a couple of writers (not including me), a product designer, a web designer, a couple of graphic designers,…