Category: City Life

  • The Mome in TYO

    Seems like Momus is quite enjoying being back in town.

  • 3www

    3www is a new directory of events happening in Tokyo. It’s in Japanese only, but you can make out most of the listings. There’s a paper version also, available for 100 yen. Link via Click Opera.

  • Death by Keitai

    Quite often, I feel like dying. When I feel that way, I let my cell phone die instead. Mai, a 17-year-old girl who gets a new cell phone every time her boyfriend dumps her, enabling her to “reset” her life. (Japan Today)

  • Sent

    In the second edition of his new weekly column STREAMING, writer Warren Ellis talks about his inclusion in the current SENT mobile phone photography exhibition taking place in LA. Yours truly gets a bit of a mention, which is nice. Also, please have a look at his current playlist, which appears at the end of…

  • Kiiiiiii in Concert

    Patrick’s Agenda brings us news that Kiiiiiii, alongside Nihao! and Petty Booka, will be performing at Shinjuku Red Cloth on August 11. I’ll definitely try to go to this if I’m in town (it’s during my holidays, and I still don’t know if I’m going anywhere).

  • TSiG Street Art

    PRESS RELEASE TOKYO STYLE IN GOTHENBURG 2004 Street Art / Self Promotion For Tokyo Style in Gothenburg we are trying to bring the spirit of contemporary Tokyo to Gothenburg and the cultural building Röda Sten (www.rodasten.com). You can find some pictures of the venue here. The streets of Tokyo Besides bringing contemporary japanese artists, musicians,…

  • Kamayatsu Women

    They’re everywhere. Young women who couldn’t give a damn about how they look, don’t really care what anybody else thinks about them and are only interested in finding out more about themselves. They’re the Kamayatsu women, according to Sunday Mainichi (7/4). Named after rough-and-ready rocker Monsieur Kamayatsu, who made slobbery and grunge part of his…

  • Pause

    I’m creating this new post entry on the Pause cafe near my place because I’m often mentioning it, but I have different bits of info scattered throughout the site (you can see all those posts here). The place acts as an office and cafe for Roughtoyz. You can find a map here. It now closes…

  • TSiG Magazine Exhibition

    PRESS RELEASE TOKYO STYLE IN GOTHENBURG 2004 Magazine Exhibition For Tokyo Style in Gothenburg we will arrange a Japanese magazine exhibition, showing and promoting different Japanese magazines we like. The exhibition will take place at the cultural building Röda Sten (www.rodasten.com) in Gothenburg, in the huge main room which holds 12 meters to the roof.…

  • 2004 ADC Exhibition

    A new month means a new exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, and it’s time for the annual ADC show. July is here, and with it comes the annual ADC exhibition from the Ginza Graphic Gallery, this year entitled ‘2004 ADC Exhibition.’ This year saw approximately 9,300 entries produced between May 2003 and April 2004,…