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  • In Search of the Lost Taste

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    Ian Lynam has art directed and designed a new vegan cookbook by Joshua Ploeg called In Search of the Lost Taste, which he describes as “half-recipes/half-adventure/sci-fi/fantasy novella with cover illustration by comic maestro Aaron Renier and interior illustrations by the mighty overlord Nate Beaty.” Ian has a bunch of copies available for 1,200 yen postpaid…

  • Design Festa Vol. 29

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    Couldn’t make it to this past weekend’s Design Festa (Vol. 29)? Tokyomade‘s Masao posts a Flickr photoset.

  • Live House Movie

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    Tokyo-based journalist — and former PingMag colleague — Kevin Mcgue is working on a feature-length documentary about Japan’s live house scene called, appropriately enough, Live House. The project is set to come out this fall, and it was recently awarded a Japan Foundation grant.

  • Peashoot

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    John “Yongfook” Cockle’s latest web app, Peashoot, has now launched to the public. Looks rather nice — it’s a system to keep track of online social media compaigns.

  • PauseTalk Grows

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    Yes, PauseTalk has indeed been growing, as seen with the attendance at the March and May editions, and so after having a talk with Cafe Pause‘s manager last night, we’ve decided that for the next edition (Vol. 32 on June 1, from 20:00) the cafe will be exclusively used for PauseTalk. This should mean seating…

  • BLACK Comme des Garcons

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    From the Neojaponisme Twitter feed: Comme des Garcons launching a new cheaper brand called BLACK in Shibuya Parco on June 5.

  • Muscle March

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    The game every Wii owner has been waiting for: Muscle March, out May 26 as a WiiWare title. Via Offworld.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Alexander Gelman’s Lohas Design Award nomination, Naoto Fukasawa for B&B Italia, Nosigner‘s “The Rose Nebuta,” and Yukio Hashimoto’s Moonbird.

  • Nakameguro in Bloom

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    Overhead shot of Nakameguro while the cherry blossoms were in bloom in early April. Via Craig.

  • Goliga Books

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    Andrew just brought to my attention Goliga Books, an independent Tokyo-based editorial firm that creates books about photography, art, and design for various publishers, and run by Ivan Vartanian, a former New Yorker. I see its behind Tiffany Godoy’s Style Deficit Disorder, a Harajuku fashion primer I quite enjoyed — Néojaponisme was a bit more…