Jean Snow lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming 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
October 6.
I got my hands on this month’s Idea magazine! I miss reading it; we got a copy in MN since my coworker Andrew was featured in it this month. Now if only I could get Brutus here without paying a fortune…
Pedantry Corner: The expression is actually “to whet the appetite” not “to wet the appetite”. Whetting is sharpening a knife on a grinding stone. Wetting is, of course, dampening.
Examples:
“Reading Jean Snow whets my appetite for Japanese culture.”
“Reading Marxy wets my appetite for Japanese culture.”
Mamichan, I haven’t checked out the new IDEA yet, but will probably do so today.
Nick, duly noted!
I missed Maria Ozawa on the last issue of Eyescream. I did see her latest Japanese TV interview though.
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/maria-ozawa-av-actress-video-interview/
She is a very pretty lady