Month: December 2009

  • PLAY 02

    I’m not promising I’ll keep doing these on a weekly basis, but I’m having so much fun doing them that I want to keep going, so yes, next week I’m doing PLAY 02 at Cafe Pause. It will happen on Saturday (December 12) instead of Friday, because I’m going to be attending the “Taichizm!” live…

  • Setlist for PLAY 01

    Had a great time with PLAY 01 — finished up just a couple of hours ago, actually — and again, I’m posting here the complete playlist for my set, which you can also download in two parts. PLAY 01 (Part 1) (43 MB) 1. Lorenzo Fragiacomo – “Kirby” 2. Stephin Merritt – “Stray with Me”…

  • Tokyo Bike Shops

    CNNGo has a piece up looking at some of Tokyo’s best bike shops. Pictured above, WBASE Harajuku.

  • Wacka Wacka Chocolate

    Is it just me, or does this photo from MUJI’s Xmas 2009 page for their “gateau au chocolat” mix look like a certain yellow pill-popping fiend.

  • Free Copy Tokyo

    Free Copy Tokyo is a zine by LA-based graffiti writer Eyeone created during a recent trip to Tokyo, covering the graffiti scene. You can download a free PDF version of it here. Ian Lynam contributed the logo.

  • Street Art in Tokyo

    A video showing street art and stickers in Tokyo, from the RUN FFM Popculture blog.

  • Mr. Sanpo

    Mr. Sanpo — also known as Sir Sanps-a-lot — is a new papercraft design that was introduced by Josh McKible at the recent “Urban Paper” exhibition at the Cafe Pause. Josh has made the templates for Mr. Sanpo available for download — you can get either the original designs, or blank templates that let you…

  • Sia Aoyama Building

    0300TV has put together a rather nice video of the Sia Aoyama Building, designed by Jun Aoki. Via Dezain.net.

  • Flat Table

    Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architecture Office) has developed a table (one version is pictured above) made of styrofoam, but hardened by pouring epoxy in holes that cover it. More at MoCo Loco.

  • No Man’s Land

    TABlog has a photo report from last week’s opening of the “No Man’s Land” exhibition, which runs until January 31.