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Month: April 2008

  • Animating Awareness

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    In order to bring attention the issue of Japanese citizens who have been abducted by North Korea, the Japanese government has a produced a short animated film that tells the story of Megumi Yokota, abducted in 1977 at the age of 13. The shot can be downloaded here, and is available in Japanese, English, Chinese,…

  • MTV Feels Me

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    Some nice new IDs for MTV Japan by W+K Tokyo.

  • Hello World

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    Very cool promotional site, “Hello World,” for Softbank by THA. I love how you can interact with the people (making them clap, for instance) and quickly zoom in and out. Via Shane Lester.

  • Moncton in Monocle

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    I was slow in picking up the latest issue of MONOCLE (April 2008) — only did so today — and was absolutely shocked to see that this month’s “Expo” piece was on the Moncton Flight College in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. See, Moncton is my hometown, and it’s definitely not the kind of place that…

  • Simple Minded

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    Big thanks go out to Yuka Yamaguchi for contributing this piece, “Simple Minded,” to Neojaponisme. For those of you familiar with her work — maybe from her exhibition at Cafe Pause earlier this year — you’ll notice that this piece eschews colors and is a pencil-only piece (except for the bloody red homage to Neojaponisme’s…

  • Happening in Tokyo

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    Check out the artshow/toy release/sneak attack of “Tentacles, Horns, and Scales” over at Thrash Out (the flagship store of vinyl pioneers Gargamel) in Koenji this Saturday (April 19). More info on the show and the participants here. This Friday (April 18) sees a launch party for the NO MORE HEROES remix soundtrack album, of which…

  • Skirt or Trousers!

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    Fashion designer (and PauseTalker) Anna Antoniades gets a nice write-up over at the David Report.

  • Zoren Gold & Minori Site Update

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    Zoren Gold & Minori have done a major update to their site. Quite the striking image on the front page!

  • Wired’s Game|Life Contributor

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    I’m very happy to announce that as of this week I’ve started contributing to Wired‘s Game|Life blog. I’ll be doing a few posts a day for them, mostly covering game-related news coming from Tokyo/Japan. As I tend to do with all of the things I write, I’ll start posting round-ups at the end of the…

  • Foreigners Covering Tokyo's Art and Design Scene

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    Today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES has a piece by Justine Parker on foreign creators and journalists doing their thing in Japan’s art and design scene, and you should recognize quite a few of the names featured (yes, yours truly, as well as Pausetalk, get mentions).