My friend Mark has just released another iPhone app — I posted about his Prescription for Sleep a while back — this time an absolutely silly game called Get Dirk Drunk. I think the trailer will pretty much explain everything you need to know.
Apr 24, 2009
The Creative Review blog has a video report on mobile culture in Japan.
Apr 24, 2009
Looking for an architect? Then head on down to the Architect Cafe, where you can meet with architects and discuss projects. According to Spoon & Tamago, “they have an extensive database of architects that you can sweep through by name or by portfolio, and decide on a style you like.” There are currently two locations, one in Aoyama and one in Shiodome.
Apr 24, 2009
MO House, a home designed by Tokyo architects Baqueratta. Designboom posts a few photos of the interior.
Apr 24, 2009
Loving this entry by Masayoshi Nakamura and Magico Nakamura for the Adobe Records video competition. Via Motionographer.
Apr 23, 2009
This week’s Tokyo post for MoCo Loco covers more Japan-related news from Milan, including the latest from MILE, Teruhiro Yanagihara (Isolation Unit), Takafumi Nemoto (PORE), Shin Azumi, as well as some new non-Milan products from Kouichi Okamoto (Kyouei).
Apr 23, 2009
The 101TOKYO crew have put together a large gallery of photos from this year’s showing.
Apr 22, 2009
The “Little Pink” exhibition — read about it here — is now on at Cafe Pause, and runs until Sunday (April 26).
Update: Looks like we’re going to have a reception tomorrow night (Thursday, April 23) at the cafe with Shantell and Gelman for the show. I’ll post more details soon, but please join us if you can!
Update 2: Apologies, but scheduling problems will prevent the reception from happening tomorrow night.
Apr 21, 2009
Bianca may have left Tokyo for Kyoto, but she didn’t leave before finishing one last project: “The Way Home from the Station.” As she explains:
Apr 21, 2009
Tokyo Art Beat has just launched two fresh new tees for your buying pleasure — remember, all proceeds go to help support the site. On the left is “Modularly Yours” by Ian Lynam — which I promptly ordered — and on the right “White Discharge” by Teppei Kaneuji.
It’s interesting to note that TAB is also now selling the Tokyo By Tokyo guide — probably the easiest place to order it online.
Apr 21, 2009
Starting tomorrow (April 21), Cafe Pause is hosting the “Little Pink” exhibition, a collaboration between Alexander Gelman and Shantell Martin. It’s a fun project: Shantell drew over — or as she would say, “bombed” — 100 flyers that were produced for Gelman’s “Little Black” installation at the Nanzuka Underground gallery back in 2007. Here’s a video of Shantell in action, using her pink pigment Posca pens.
All 100 pieces will be on display, and the show runs until Sunday, April 26.
Apr 20, 2009
How’s this for a QR barcode! Produced by Tokyo-based creative agency SET, it was put together to promote the ongoing collaborations between LV and Takashi Murakami. I’m pretty sure it’s the first time I see a stylized code like this, and I’m quite surprised that it actually works.
Apr 20, 2009
After that last post, I just realized I hadn’t put photos from KDa‘s opening for their retrospective exhibition at Gallery MA. It’s a great show — love the use of those blinking signs — and well worth making the short trek from Tokyo Midtown. It runs until June 6.
Apr 20, 2009
KDa superstars Mark and Astrid signing their new book, following their lecture last Friday night.
Apr 20, 2009
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 June 4.
We hereby define a new term, that of the magaziner, described as a person who exerts an unhealthy amount of love for all things magazine. The Magaziner is a site that mostly focuses on the intersection between magazines and the digital frontier, and what it means for the medium. This does not preclude the inclusion of a healthy amount of print love.
Jean Snow is a contributor to Arcade Mania, your guide to the arcade gaming scene in Japan (Amazon US/Amazon Japan). He also provided assistance on Tokyolife: Art and Design, a guide to Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives.
He will be contributing to the upcoming fifth editions of The Rough Guide to Tokyo and The Rough Guide to Japan, due for release in 2011.
Jean Snow is Executive Director of the PechaKucha organization. He also helps run the PechaKucha Night in Tokyo -- please get in touch if you are interested in presenting at a future event. For a more intimate salon-like discussion group, join him at his monthly PauseTalk event.
A longtime resident of Tokyo, he lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired's Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.
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