Month: December 2008

  • New Trends in Architecture in Europe and the Asia-Pacific

    Archigram‘s Peter Cook and Assistant‘s Megumi Matsubara, at last Friday’s opening party for the “New Trends in Architecture in Europe and the Asia-Pacific 2008-2010” exhibition at Hillside Terrace in Daikanyama. The show runs until December 21.

  • Likemind Tokyo

    Finally made it out to my first Likemind Tokyo event last Friday — it’s much more convenient to go now that I’m based in Harajuku. It was good fun, and for those wondering how it compares to PauseTalk, it’s basically a casual get-together without any moderated discussion — sort of like what PauseTalk turns into…

  • Artivist Film Festival

    The 5th Annual International Artivist Film Festival — “dedicated to raising awareness for the interdependence between Humanity, Animals, and the Environment” — is coming to Tokyo next weekend (December 12-14), held at the Instituto Cervantes in Ichigaya. All screenings are free, and will be held on Friday and Saturday nights, and all-day Sunday — the…

  • Mako Ishizuka at Creators Inn

    Artist Mako Ishizuka was in Gothenburg, Sweden recently, staying at fashion brand Elvine‘s Creators Inn — a project produced by Jesper Larsson that offers free accommodations to visiting creators. Here’s a short interview with Ishizuka, and a “Day with Mako” photo post.

  • November Art Round-up

    The Art Space Tokyo blog does another round-up of art-related Tokyo news, this time for November.

  • Japan Fashion Magazine Circulation Numbers

    Want to know what’s selling and what’s not in the world of Japanese fashion mags these days? Mekas has a great round-up of numbers for top titles — comparing sales in June and November of this year — as well as commentary.

  • Column and Slab House

    More architectural porn this morning, this time FT Architects’ Column and Slab House in Tokyo, courtesy of Dezeen.

  • Time Saved

    Time Saved. Time Saved. No more. Yes, the infamous “Time Saved” mantra/bug that has been plaguing my feed for a while now has finally been dealt with, thanks to the efforts of my dear friend Joseph Keenan. The problem related to the version of Spam Karma — an anti-spam plugin for WordPress — I was…