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Your Guide to Design and Pop Culture in Tokyo

Mar 10, 2011

PauseTalk Vol. 48

First of all, thanks to all who made it to this week’s PauseTalk Vol. 48. It was a small gathering — in fact, for the first 20 minutes or so it was just me and Edward — but eventually a few more people showed up, and you’ll find most of them listed below. But this low attendance made me realize something — it’s always the editions that have a very limited number of people that I end up enjoying the most, and that’s because it really gives us a chance to talk together and find out more about each other. I always feel like I get way more out of those intimate sessions, and connect on a deeper level with other attendees. If I worry at all about a low attendance it’s because I don’t want others to feel like they’re not getting what they expected (which is the average crowd of 20 or so). But for me, it’s all good, and in the future I’ll be looking forward to more of these more casual editions of PauseTalk. 

Before I get to the list of participants, let me also announce that I’ve finally decided to make the PauseTalk concept (name, format, etc.) available for use by anyone, under a Creative Commons license. There will be be no need to ask me permission to organize a PauseTalk event, although I’ll be happy if you let me know that you’re doing one, just out of curiosity. By the end of the month I’ll be preparing a document — and extended FAQ, if you will — that will lay out what I see a PauseTalk event being about, and how it should be run (or at least how I run it), and it will be available in PDF form (and probably on the PauseTalk website as well). The main reason I’m doing this is because every once in a while I get asked about this kind of thing, and so I figured why not just let anyone do one.

Below, a partial list (but almost complete) of those who attended PauseTalk Vol. 48. The next edition, Vol. 49, will be happen April 4.

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PauseTalk

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.

Codex is a weekly music podcast hosted by Jean Snow, recorded in Tokyo. Playlists for all episodes are posted on the site, and you can subscribe to RSS feeds of posts and episodes.

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.
PechaKucha

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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