This site doesn’t really seem to have any purpose, but I’ve been having an unhealthy amount of fun just moving my cursor around and making those bubble animals jump and spin around. You probably shouldn’t go there. It’s probably just me.
Dec 13, 2002
Oh, this site is gold, and the URL address says it all: scumbagsinjapan.com. This is how they describe the Shane English School: “Illegal contract conditions, trying to cheat teachers on wages, gouging its teachers and generally a not very nice place to work run by an arrogant 1970′s backpacking hippy scumbag with a U.S. cowboy western name.”
Dec 12, 2002
From japantoday.com:
TOKYO ? The Tokyo area was hit by an unusually early snow Monday that played havoc with air, rail and road traffic, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers, and caused hundreds of injuries, leaving one boy unconscious after he fell off a roof.
At least 228 people suffered injuries due to the snow, mainly in falls on slippery roads or from roofs, in Tokyo and eight neighboring prefectures, according to a Kyodo News survey of local police forces.
Dec 10, 2002
I really like the pics at Doctor Foxglove‘s site. Nice presentation also (with some good captions).
Dec 9, 2002
It’s snowing right now in Tokyo. Snow. In early December. Wow.
It’s fucking cold in my apartment right now.
Dec 9, 2002
I think I’m going to start updating Tokyo Boy on a weekly basis now, instead of twice-weekly, and that will be on Mondays. I just haven’t been taking that many pictures lately, and I’m also getting busy with other things (like focusing on my Japanese language skills).
Also, as for Geisha, I just haven’t been able to get the pictures that I wanted to include in this new issue. I might still try to get it done this weekend, but it won’t end up looking like what I wanted. Tomorrow I’m supposed to go out with friends to the gyoza stadium in Ikebukuro, so maybe that outing will give me some nice material to include.
And Yuko is going nuts over online auctions these days. She has started selling Chinese bags (with the help of a friend in Beijing). You can see one of them here.
Dec 7, 2002
Just a reminder to check out the Tokyo Record Hunting Service. Best damn place on the Net for used Japanese CDs. There are even little featured artist blurbs now, to give you an idea of why you should be picking some albums. Be original this Christmas and get something different for the music freak that you love so much.
Dec 6, 2002
TB.37 is finally up at the OPi8 site, after a one-week break. Stuff from my day at the Resfest.
Also, a big thanks to Warren Ellis for mentioning GEISHA in the latest message of his Bad Signal mailing list. For those popping in because of that, check back in a few days for the fourth issue.
Dec 3, 2002
I started work on a new issue of my Geisha ezine tonight, and I plan on finishing it up this week. I usually do them in one night, but there are a few pics I want to take to include in this one (a festive issue), so hopefully I’ll be able to get that done in the coming days. As for Tokyo Boy, it wasn’t updated last Friday as I promised (I got a second attack of intestinal problems, which seems to have cleard up now), but should be tomorrow.
Dec 2, 2002
PauseTalk is a regular series of events that take place at Cafe Pause on the first Monday of every month, with a start time of 20:00. The idea is to create a forum where Tokyo-based creatives can get together and discuss their own projects, as well as cultural currents of the city. The next edition happens on Sunday, May 13, as part of the Magazine Library 10 exhibition in Daikanyama.
We hereby define a new term, that of the magaziner, described as a person who exerts an unhealthy amount of love for all things magazine. The Magaziner is a site that mostly focuses on the intersection between magazines and the digital frontier, and what it means for the medium. This does not preclude the inclusion of a healthy amount of print love.
Jean Snow is a contributor to Arcade Mania, your guide to the arcade gaming scene in Japan (Amazon US/Amazon Japan). He also provided assistance on Tokyolife: Art and Design, a guide to Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives.
He will be contributing to the upcoming fifth editions of The Rough Guide to Tokyo and The Rough Guide to Japan, due for release in 2011.
Jean Snow is Executive Director of the PechaKucha organization. He also helps run the PechaKucha Night in Tokyo -- please get in touch if you are interested in presenting at a future event. For a more intimate salon-like discussion group, join him at his monthly PauseTalk event.
A longtime resident of Tokyo, he lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired's Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.
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