Monthly Archives: February 2005

Jenkins Biography

If you live in Japan, you definitely know who Charles Jenkins is, as he’s been a constant presence on the news in recent years because of the North Korean kidnapping situation. TIME’s Tokyo bureau chief and senior editor Jim Frederick … Continue reading

Posted in Books, Society | 7 Comments

Korean Independent Cinema 2005

Oh my, this sounds excellent — and kudos for including English subtitles! Following last year’s premiere, the second edition of this very good event is again happening at Image Forum. The program this time is made up of four feature … Continue reading

Posted in Events, Film | Leave a comment

One Week & Three Items

Jesper is organizing an exhibition for some of the creations of Kouichi Okamoto called “One Week & Three Items” in Gothenburg, Sweden. Here’s some more info: Next Century Modern & Tokyo Style in Gothenburg presents the exhibition One Week & … Continue reading

Posted in Design, Events | 3 Comments

Shopping in Tokyo

Momus is back in town, and he has a new audio blog up: “Shopping in Tokyo.” I notice he bought the watch I’ve been eyeing for months now. D’oh.

Posted in Tokyo Walking, Web | 14 Comments

Aoyama Street Art

A sign in Aoyama, in front of the Spiral building.

Posted in Art, TB.Grafico | 3 Comments

Japan Media Arts Festival

Been wanting to mention this here for a while now, and I’m finally reminded of it by this REALTOKYO entry: The festival is held for the eighth time this year, and as an art fan I’m again most interested in … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Events | Leave a comment

The Feeds

I’ve been wanting to use the new “Page” feature of WP 1.5 to list the feeds, but I’m having a slight problem — I think I know why, just need to play around with some stuff. In the meantime, here … Continue reading

Posted in Meta | 16 Comments

Sticker Post

A post with stickers in Aoyama.

Posted in Art, TB.Grafico | Leave a comment