Art Space Tokyo

Chin Music Press is at it again, and even though you know I can’t help but show love to them, I’m here to inform you that you WILL be pre-ordering their upcoming release NOW! ART SPACE TOKYO: AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO THE TOKYO ART WORLD is a guide to twelve of Tokyo’s art spaces by way of 20 interviews and eight essays from people who know a thing or two (or three) about the Tokyo art scene. The book is edited by Ashley “TAB and TABlog editor” Rawlings, and of course lovingly designed by Craig “I will build myself a Moulton” Mod.

The book will be out in April, but you can pre-order it now and save $8 — that’s only $22 with free shipping anywhere — which is what I just did (hey, as much as I want to support them, I can’t pass up on a deal).

Category: Art • Books

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How wow. Like Rob Lowe says in Thank You For Smoking, Tokyo really is in the future - you blogged their book release before they did!

08.02.24 23:58
Posted by Joseph K
Actually, believe it or not, the scope covered by this book is so broad that it does actually momentarily touch on the lives of smokers in Tokyo…

Now if that doesn’t make you want to buy the book, what will?!

08.02.25 0:02
Posted by Ashley Rawlings
We have a special agreement with Jean — he agrees to blog all our books, and we agree to let him get the scoop. ;-)

08.02.25 0:10
Posted by Craig
If you only knew the things I see when I visit Co-Lab…

08.02.25 9:58
Posted by Jean Snow
clear pakuri of late sheldon brown’s style this entry. (http://www.sheldonbrown.com/home.html)

or is it that the man being gone he’s already a ‘classic’ and the stylistic borrowing doesn’t need to be acknowledged even by marxy’s strict standards ?

08.02.26 5:31
Posted by alin
That’s quite the red beard!

08.02.26 10:06
Posted by Jean Snow
Our next book should be a Sheldon retrospective — God knows I’ve leeched off the information on his site long enough to owe it to him! And he was already classic well before his passing (how can you not be with a beard like that?).

08.02.26 11:57
Posted by Craig
Sheldon Brown, it should be said, had the perfect beard for riding a recumbent with — a confounding, infuriating growth with severe quaker looks but a devilish side that wanted to tickle the necks of married women. He, and the beard, will be missed.

Me, whenever I go cruising around on my ‘bent, I make sure my mustache is waxed, my socks are knee-high and my waffle stompers are laced up tight.

08.02.26 13:33
Posted by Fletcher

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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture 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 August 4 (there is no July edition).