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Month: September 2016

  • Metafive at the Montreux Jazz Festival Japan

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    Metafive — the supergroup featuring Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius), Towa Tei, Yoshinori Sunahara, Yukihiro Takahashi, Tomohiko Gondo, and Leo Imai — will be performing next month at the special Japan edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival (October 7, at the Garden Hall). Would so love to see them live — and love Cornelius’s look in the…

  • Rrrrrrroll_gif

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    Rrrrrrrroll_gif is a fun project where a group of people are producing GIFs (that’s with a hard “g” by the way) of people or things rotating to infinity. Fun to watch. Found via Tokyo Soup.

  • Uradome Coast

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    Tokyo-based photographer George Popescu shares stunning photos taken on the Uradome Coast, in the prefecture of Tottori.

  • KYOTO VR x Reylia Slaby

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    This “KYOTO VR x Reylia Slaby” project looks quite interesting, as they look to create a photorealistic VR experience based around Kyoto landmarks. It’s currently looking for funding through Campfire, a Kickstarter-like Japanese site.

  • Supplement: Tokyo

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    Oh how I’d love to attend the first edition of the new talk/lecture series called Supplement: Tokyo. The first edition (on October 4) will have a list of speakers that includes two friends I think are smart as fuck (W. David Marx and Chris Palmieri), and will be moderated by one of the best dudes, period…

  • X-Men: Apocalypse

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    Can’t say that I liked this much. I’m not a huge fan of the X-Men movies in general, but I thought First Class was pretty entertaining. This just felt uninteresting to me, with Apocalypse not doing much until the end, and same goes with his Horsemen. I think the worst thing for me though is…

  • RYO-Z & PES & Tofubeats & PlayStation

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    Sony tried something new with the sizzle reel that kicked off its pre-Tokyo Game Show PlayStation conference yesterday. The great 5-minute video features RYO-Z and PES of the group RIP SLYME, rapping about the included games on top of beats provided by Tofubeats. It’s fun stuff, and makes for an entertaining way to take in the lineup.

  • Too Much Magazine at Tokyo Art Book Fair

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    If you dig into the archives of this site, you’ll find tons of posts about my relationship with Audrey and Yoshi, previously of OK Fred magazine (from where we spun off Radio OK Fred) and now Too Much magazine. The latest issue is all about climber Naoki Ishikawa, and while at the Tokyo Art Book Fair (September…

  • Miyamoto Talks Super Mario Run

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    Following last week’s announcement that Nintendo is producing a new Mario game for iOS, Super Mario Run, The Verge was quick to share this interview with Shigeru Miyamoto himself, on what the thinking is behind the game (set to come out in December). I thought it was a pretty big deal to see Miyamoto join…

  • Goods at the Gundam Cafe

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    I’m looking at the goods page from the Gundam Cafe in Tokyo, and I pretty much want everything there (my wife screamed when she saw the dishes, like the plate with Char, pictured). Found via my buddy Andrew, who got this glass (which I want too).