Holidays

Your Guide to Design and Pop Culture in Tokyo

Jul 29, 2004

In two days time I will be enjoying my Summer holidays, which will last for 3 weeks. I obviously cannot wait for this, as this month as been killer because of the heat, and I really need the rest. It also means that I’ll have a lot of time on my hands, and some of that time will be used to be productive. First thing, a new issue of my ezine GEISHA. I haven’t done anything with that in what seems like ages, and a message I received the other day got me thinking that it’s about time I get back to that. I’ve been concentrating too much on the technical side of the site (like with the conversion to WordPress), but not enough on the creative side. So expect something happening on that end.

Also, I want to bring the moblog over to WP, and start posting with larger pictures. I’ll probably fiddle around with the site a bit also, so we’ll see what ends up happening on that end.

For now, I’m counting the days, and hoping I don’t end up having to come back from work tonight in the middle of a typhoon!

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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.

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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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