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Category: City Life

  • 3+5+6+8

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    Nao Suzuki has an upcoming exhibition, “3+5+6+8,” featuring works from her published series no. 3, 5, 6, and 8. It takes place at Gallery Omotesando, March 6-11 (open 12:00-19:00 daily). More info here (in Japanese).

  • Spiral

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    A picture I took a while back at the Spiral exhibition I talk about in the first episode of my Tokyo Boy podcast (and if you listened to the podcast in iTunes or on a color-screen iPod you saw this image as a chapter marker).

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Junk Coffee Aoyama Book Center You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Aoyama Book Center

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    The Aoyama Book Center cares about good Japanese design, and you should too!

  • Signal to Noise

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    Luc Meier of Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland, sends word of the upcoming “Signal to Noise – Audio Swiss Japan” tour, to hit a few cities in Japan (Tokyo, Yamaguchi, Kyoto, Osaka, and Nagoya) in March (3-17), and bringing together avant-guard electronic artists Guenter Mueller, Jason Kahn, Norbert Moeslang, Tomas Korber, and Christian…

  • Magazines at Cafe Pause

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    I was talking with the owner of Cafe Pause earlier tonight, and convinced him that it would be a good idea to have some nice magazines at the cafe for customers to browse. So we headed down to Junkudo, and I selected the latest issues of the following 16 magazines, which are now on display…

  • Construction Sights

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    Yes, the title of this post is spelled correctly. What you see here is a picture taken at the “Construction Sights: Building Site Design” exhibition I mentioned seeing at Matsuya’s Design Gallery in Ginza the other day. It ends February 20 (Monday), so this weekend is your last chance to catch it. I put up…

  • Cafe Pause Second Anniversary

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    This weekend, Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro celebrates its second anniversary, and so today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) they are serving beer (bottled) and coffee for 100 yen, limited to one serving per customer. Come and have a drink!