Mori Art Museum director David Elliott is leaving Tokyo and taking a new position at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Turkey. More here.

To promote their new table tennis game for the Xbox 360, Rockstar Games has been having these private play party tournaments in a swank penthouse apartment in Ebisu throughout the month, and I was lucky enough to get invited to one. It was an absolute blast — I now love the game — and it was so nice to be able to play on all the huge HDTV sets they had set up. I wrote a proper post about the event for Kotaku, which you can read here, and Brad (one of the friends I brought along) also posted about it (and he has some better pics of the pad, including this one of me in action). I posted a few more pics to my Flickr account as well — unfortunately, I didn’t take many pictures because I was enjoying the game too much, as well as a great many drinks…

A while back I posted about Midori Hirano‘s upcoming album, LUSHRUSH, featuring a cover illustration by OK FRED‘s Audrey Fondecave, and since yesterday you can now get your hands on it. She also has a new site up, where you’ll find links to some stuff you can listen to online.

Yuki is now in London, and she’s still blogging a storm (with lots of beautiful photography) about her new life there (for the next year).

Pictured here is a new window installation from designer Tokujin Yoshioka for Maison Hermes in Tokyo, made up of 300 000 transparent straws. Via Designboom.

GAS and Yoshida Kaban have released a new series of tote bags. More info from the Atmosphere blog.

The TABlog has an interview up with the curators fo the Nakaochiai Gallery. Also, they will be doing a presentation at this week‘s Pecha Kucha Night.

In this shot (from this Kotaku post) it looks like I’m actually good at playing GRAN TURISMO HD. I’m not.

This month’s edition of my “On Design” column is in today’s JAPAN TIMES (you can read it online here). This month I cover the Barouche line of electronic appliances, Yuichi Takeuchi’s R Chair, Oki Sato‘s DoCoMo N702iS, &design‘s NEKKO flower vase, and M+K Design‘s Sweet Icicle light.

This month’s Pecha Kucha Night (Vol. 36) happens this week, and take note that it will be on Thursday night (September 28) and not the regular Wednesday.

Also, I’ll finally be doing a Pecha Kucha presentation at the end of October. I will do it with Jesper, at a special edition of PKN for Design Tide/Design UK — but they let us participate and we’ll be talking up our Swedish Style event at the cafe. It will happen Monday, October 30.

PingMag interviews design unit ADAPTER.

If you’re a fan of Digiki‘s Polypunk podcast series — as I am — then you’ll want to head on out to the MTV Cafe Studio in Harajuku this Wednesday (September 27) for a DJ event. I’m assuming it’s in the evening, and entry is free.

Update
The event runs from 19:00 to 23:00 and has an entry fee of 2500 yen.

The end of the Tokyo Game Show (photo taken by Brad at Kaihin-Makuhari station).

I was recently contacted by someone from THE GUARDIAN about using a few of my pictures in a piece they were doing on Tokyo, and they ended up using 2. Bonus points if you know which ones!

Update
Momus takes a look at the article.

Enough to play his upcoming album, SENSUOUS, at all their stores in Japan for one entire day (October 29). Via Patrick.