Another chance to get some TAB tees at a nice price (and remember, it helps support the site):

I really need to have a look at MACPOWER, one of Japan’s Mac magazines — Momus explains why.

For Canadian Style, I’ve also created plenty of signage. Above are the profiles for the two featured artists (I’ll post the text in another post): designer Sonia Chow and photographer Marc Xavier LeBlanc (who also created all the Canadian Style music mixes — more on that later). Marc’s card is actually at the same scale as the others, but a bit longer. As with the menu, fonts for English text are in Helvetica Neue 75 Bold, with Japanese text in Osaka.

Another component of the event is an interactive installation, “Red + White/Read + Write,” that was conceived by Sonia. More on that in a separate post. What you see here is the instruction card that will be put on the wall.

As you all know, we have some Canadian Style t-shirts for sale (which you can of course purchase online), and so a small card for that.

Finally, anyone who has been to Cafe Pause has probably noticed that they usually keep one or two 4-seat tables reserved for larger groups, and so I made a sign for that also.

As promised, here’s a look at the Canadian Style menu I designed. As you can see, the food selection is maple-heavy, and quite tasty I might add. My faves? The meat pie brought me back home, and tastes pretty much like the kind my mom made. My favorite dessert had got to be the maple pudding — it’s really sweet (more than I’m accustomed to, I don’t eat a lot of sweets), but deliciously so. For the beer, I tend to go for Moosehead when I’m in Canada, but here in Japan we could only get Labbat Blue, so that pretty much settled it. English text is all done in Helvetica Neue 75 Bold, with Japanese text in Osaka.

I’ve alluded a few times to the fact that Yuko has developed a bit of an obsession over DOUBUTSU NO MORI (ANIMAL CROSSING) and that I’ve pretty much lost access to my DS because of it — I won’t tell you how many hours she plays a day, but I think you can already figure out that it’s more than one. Want to know why DSes are selling like crazy in Japan? Just now she told me that she was spending some time with someone she later found out was an 11 year old girl. How did she find out? The other person that was hanging out in the village with them was her father, also playing on a DS right next to her. And the mother? She was in the same room, with her DS in hand, playing one of the popular brain training games. Oh, and the big brother also has his own DS.

I just can’t see the PSP developing this sort of family interaction — and that’s exactly what it is, a new way for family members to interact with each other.

From Kyodo News, under the title “Businesses, academia launch ‘Japanesque modern’ campaign”:

Japanesque modern? Is Japanesque even a word?

From The ODK:

Anyone spotted him yet?

If you were like me — I am Canadian Style’s bitch, and she has no mercy — and couldn’t make it to last week’s PechaKucha Night (Vol. 29) at SuperDeluxe, PingMag has got you covered.

Olll has updated with a few photography galleries of Omotesando/Aoyama buildings, including Herzog & De Meuron’s Prada store, Toyo Ito’s Tod’s store, SANAA’s Dior store, Fumihiko Maki’s Spiral, Kengo Kuma’s One Omotesando, and Future System’s Comme des Garcons store. Link via Dezain.net.

Remember Robotech (the US adaptation of the Japanese MACROSS series)? Marxy does, and you can view a trailer for the new sequel series, THE SHADOW CHRONICLES, here. AICN has more info on this new follow-up series.

Is it just me, or is there a Battlestar Galactica (the new series) vibe to the space battle scenes in that trailer?

Momus on Ryue Nishizawa’s Moriyama House (which also gets a write-up in the latest issue of CASA BRUTUS). Also, why are Japanese homes so cold? (One of my only peeves about living here.)

Marxy, Sound Studio Noah, and his follow-up album (NEOMARXISME II - DE LA SOUL IS DEAD).

Update: And a canned coffee review for good measure.

I don’t know what’s going on, but it looks like my Flickr feed is suddenly posting plenty of pictures that aren’t mine. Anyone know what’s going on? Are other users experiencing this?

Update: Weird, if I view the feed in Safari it seems OK, but when viewed in Bloglines (I re-subscribed to the feed, just to make sure) I get a bunch of pictures that are not by me (and by people I don’t know).

Continuing on my theme of moving all my activities to the web, the Feedlounge online feed reader looks rather sweet. Too bad you need to pay $5 a month to use it (which is why I’ll stick to Bloglines).

Also, from using the mobile phone access to Gmail, I’ve noticed that I can actually access my site easily on my keitai, and even post comments (I’ve done so a few times recently).

Sorry, had to share this, it made me laugh (you know, cause it’s sort of true). Good to see Miyamato and Iwata in such good moods! Found at DS Fanboy.