Jean Snow and TDW

Your Guide to Design and Pop Culture in Tokyo

Oct 28, 2007

Despite my cold and the surge of work, I’m still ready and rarin’ to go for this week’s Tokyo Design Week festivities, and I wanted to post something to update you on my activities during the week.

First, as you all know, we have the “Creative GBG” event happening at Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro, again in collaboration with Swedish Style. It starts tomorrow (October 29), runs until November 8, and I’d really suggest coming to the special edition PauseTalk on November 5 (from 20:00), which unlike regular editions, is open to one and all (not just participants). Expect more details on the various installations and participating creators to be posted here throughout the week.

Another event which I’m very excited to be a part of is a special live presentation of Radio OK Fred at the Celine Omotesando store, part of Item Idem’s installation for DesignTide. We (me, Yoshi, Ay2, and Egaitsu Hiroshi) will be doing two shows, on October 31 (Halloween special with Combo Piano, Yayako Uchida, and Umitaro Abe) and November 2 (Special Creativity Now! with David W. Marx, Antonin Gaultier aka Digiki, Marie from Colette, and PMKFA). The “shows” will happen from 18:00 to 20:00, with nice music, great talk, lots of unexpected happenings, and free drinks!

Also, as in past years, I’ll be covering the various design events, and taking lots of photos for MoCo Loco, so check there later this week for that coverage (and if you missed it, here’s my TDW preview from THE JAPAN TIMES). I also plan on posting a few TDW-related posts at Neojaponisme throughout the week.

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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 June 4.

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Jean Snow is a contributor to Arcade Mania, your guide to the arcade gaming scene in Japan (Amazon US/Amazon Japan). He also provided assistance on Tokyolife: Art and Design, a guide to Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives.

He will be contributing to the upcoming fifth editions of The Rough Guide to Tokyo and The Rough Guide to Japan, due for release in 2011.

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Jean Snow is Executive Director of the PechaKucha organization. He also helps run the PechaKucha Night in Tokyo -- please get in touch if you are interested in presenting at a future event. For a more intimate salon-like discussion group, join him at his monthly PauseTalk event.

A longtime resident of Tokyo, he lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired's Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.

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