Oh, I really like this: the Unsui house from architect Norisada Maeda. See more over at Dezeen.

My weekly Tokyo post at MoCo Loco covers Toshiyuji Kita’s Tronco chair and bench, Takashi Sato‘s Tongs lamp, and the Siwa line by Naoto Fukasawa and ONAO.

Designboom previews architect Akihisa Hirata‘s “House of Houses” project, which will be presented at the Yokohama Triennale (September 13 to November 30).

Love this 8-bit music video for Omodaka’s track “Yosawya San.” Via Tokyomango.

PingMag takes us on a tour of the Tokyo retail interiors by Jamo Associates.

It’s Friday night, I’m done at the cafe, and picked up these on my way home. Fall beer is finally out! A couple of cans of Akiaji and some consoles with lots of games to play: it’s going to be a nice evening.

Kanye West collaborates with Takashi Murakami on the video for his single, “Good Morning.”

Look what got delivered to me this morning: beautiful print copies of Arcade Mania! I can’t even start to describe the thrill of finally getting to hold this thing in my hands, and it looks absolutely terrific, even better than what I was hoping.

To update you on a few things, the official site for the book should launch next week, and we’ll also reveal details on when the book launch/party will happen. The book will be in stores in Japan towards the end of September, and January for the rest of the world. You can already pre-order it at Amazon Japan, Amazon US, even Amazon Canada.

TABlog posts a nice interview with Assistant‘s Megumi. I’m quite looking forward to this Friday’s opening of her new “BOOJUM” exhibition at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama.

I haven’t picked up a tee from Graniph in quite a while, but I’m sure liking this new series by Archigram. Via Designboom.

Tokyo Art Beat has released an API, opening up its data to one and all. TAB’s Olivier explains:

TABlog has more.

That horrible image you see above is the sign of depression for any Xbox 360 owner: the Red Ring of Death. It means that your Xbox 360 has died.

That’s what I’m getting on mine right now.

“Art Below Tokyo” brings together the works of 15 artists in an exhibition that takes place, well, below Tokyo, or more specifically near the Ginza line entrance at Shibuya station. Two PauseTalkers made the cut: Tim Rudder (left) and Josh McKible. The show starts today, and runs until September 1.

Last week’s Tokyo post for MoCo Loco covered: Noriko Hashida’s Bew kitchen tray, a new version of the MUJI’s “Ki no Ie” pre-fab home (pictured), and the “Good Design Expo 2008,” which was held this past weekend.

There doesn’t appear to be any info on the new MUJI home online yet, and the image I used was a scan of a pamphlet I picked up at MUJI.

• Digiki’s “Dense Music Tour” keeps on keeping, and tomorrow (August 24, 18:00) hits the Sendai Ichibancho Apple Store. More on the tour here. Listen to a mini-mix of the album here.