Patrick Benny thinks street artist QP has started a new series. More info and photos here.

We have some new t-shirts for sale at the Cafe Pause T Gallery, five designs from Burn Suburbia. Each design is inspired by (and created in) a particular city.

From left: Tokyo (XS and S), Toronto (S and M), London (S and M), Phoenix (S), and Brooklyn (S and M).

Unlike previous collections, you can also order these through me (by paypal, to jean@jeansnow.net). Each design is sold at 3500 yen, plus 500 yen for shipping (anywhere). Stock is very limited, so please check with me before ordering to see if your size is still available.

The results are in, and below is the list of 8 winners for our Creative GBG contest:

• Joe
• Joseph Keenan
• Julian Littler
• Paul Baron
• Ian Walker
• Patrick Benny
• Meri Joyce
• Nadia Gisler

We have 24 items to hand out. Each winner gets to choose 3 items from the list below, so please get in touch to let me know what you want as your prize. First come first serve, so if what you want is already taken, you’ll need to substitute. I will prepare gift packs at Cafe Pause with your name on it, which you can pick up anytime.

Here are the prize items:

• 1 copy of the TALENT COMMUNITY DVD (shorts by Lars Nilsson)
• 6 copies of Karl Larsson’s FORM FORCE (book design by Methams Pool — the smaller red-ish book pictured in image #3 above)
• 5 copies of OEI NONSENS (book design by Methams Pool — the large book pictured in image #3 above)
• 3 photos by Daniel Grizelj (pictured in image #4 above)
• Elvine jacket (size S)
• Elvine pants (size 31)
• Elvine t-shirt (size M)
• Elvine black jeans (size 27)
• Elvine ladies shirt (size S)
• 3 Elvine hats
• Nudie Cafe t-shirt by PMKFA

Have a look at the portfolio site of Goro Fujita for lots of very nice sci-fi inspired illustrative work. Via StartDrawing.org.

PingMag heads out to Shin-Okubo to cover The Ghetto, a former love hotel that was turned into a sort of skater cultural center and gallery space.

Neojaponisme has just launched a new section, a sister blog of sorts, called Meta no Tame. I’ll let our dear leader explain what it’s all about.

Thanks to Yuki for pointing out that I make in appearance in Underworld‘s BOOK OF JAM 2: JAPAN, in the “Wayposts” section on page 47:

Being a big fan of Underworld and all their creative work, this pleases me to no end. You can download the PDF book — which is about Japan and their gigs at Makuhari Messe — for free by registering on the site.

The Wonderwall site updates with a gallery of shots of Bape Store Shibuya (13-17 Udagawacho). This month saw the opening of another Bape store designed by Katayama, Bape Store Harajuku (4-21-7 Jingumae).

I get a nice mention (scroll down) in the Guardian:

Thanks for the heads-up, Ian!

Update
It should be pointed out that I’m the editor of the SUPERFUTURE SUPERGUIDE for Tokyo. The original author is Superfuture founder Wayne Berkowitz.

Singapore-based The Analog Girl, who performed last year at Cafe Pause, is included in this week’s issue of TIME (Vol. 171 No. 4, Asian edition), as one of the “Asian Acts to Watch in 2008.” They even mention the Cafe Pause show!

Also, she’s just released a new EP, SOMETIME NEXT GALAXY, which you can purchase here.

Update
Added the photo, by Amos Wong, that was provided for the story.

Cool use of flash online as a promotion/ad for apartment developer MORIMOTO. It’s a recreation of this TV ad. Via SYTY.

Andre Agassi did it in tennis, so why not ping-pong. Naomi Yotsumoto is a pro table tennis player getting a lot of attention for the outfits she wears. I guess she’s pretty good too! More here from Imprint Talk.

Over at the Clast blog, Marxy examines the relationship between Shibuya-kei and the newly-coined Akiba-kei.

The shot you see above (taken at the Oazo shopping center near Tokyo station) is part of the Flickr “Japan HDR” group. I’ve seen lots of HDR photography in the past, but never so many that come off as illustrations. Via Boing Boing.

I have a piece in this week’s issue of TIME (Vol. 171, No. 3, Asian edition), which you can read online here. It’s on Swatch Japan‘s HQ in Ginza, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center.