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Category: City Life

  • 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,…

  • Peeking Into Prada

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    I know I’ve been posting loads of pics from Lil lately, but here’s another one that I really like.

  • Karia Nomoto at Apple Store

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    Oh man, I so wish I could go to this (can’t because of work): Karia Nomoto will be doing a free mini-live at the Apple Store Shibuya on June 13, from 20:00. More details from Chipple.net Agenda.

  • PauseTalk Vol. 1

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    Tomorrow (June 5) is the day I’m holding the first edition of the PauseTalk series (for more on the event, see previous posts). I already have confirmations from an interesting group of people, so I think it’s going to make for a nice evening. If you haven’t said anything but end up wanting to show…

  • LOFT Book Sale

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    A reader sends me word that the Loft stores in Tokyo are currently holding big English books sales, mostly concentrating on design, photography, and film. Probably worth checking out.