The Boy Is Back in Town

Well, after a 14-hour flight from NYC, we were back home in our apartment last night at 5, and I only made it to 7 before falling asleep. It’s now 3 am and I’m completely awake — the joys of jet lag! Expect things to finally get back on track here as normal life now resumes. It is possible that the site goes down for a bit as my hosting is upgrading to new servers this week, but you might not notice it at all.

Oh, and for those wondering, yes, I did have a chance to go to the MoMA Design Store in NYC and see the Muji goods on sale (the only place in North America I believe). Everything was more than double the price!

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i’ve seen muji stuff for sale at the moca store in santa monica. i’ve also seen a few items for sale at the reed space on orchard st in nyc.

05.08.27 4:20
Posted by hodoree

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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.

Jean Snow is a daily contributor to Wired magazine's game blog, Game|Life, covering game news from Japan and beyond.

Tokyolife: Art and Design covers Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives. Jean Snow provided coordination assistance.

The Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.

He is also the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.

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 August 4 (there is no July edition).