I’ve put up a Flickr photoset of shots from last night’s "Nudie Party" at the cafe, which marked the end of our "Nudie Cafe" event. The place was packed — it was so hard to move inside that people were spilling out on the street, even attracting attention from the police — and for the first time ever people were dancing and rockin’ the place! Huge thanks to everyone who came, and to the great beats provided by Jens, PMKFA + Megumi, NIM, and Embee!
Tomorrow marks the end of our “Nudie Cafe” event at the cafe, and we’re celebrating with a party tonight (Saturday, November 11, 18:00-23:00) with the “Nudie Party!” If you have no plans for the evening, do stop by, as we have DJs (headliner is Embee, but our friends Jens, and event collaborator PMKFA, will also spend some time at the DJ booth), with NIM preparing some special video projections (he produced the cool video installation you’ve been able to see throughout the event). Happy hour drinks all night (translation: all drinks 500 yen) — should be a blast!
I’ve added a few more shots to the “Nudie Cafe” Flickr photoset, mostly showcasing the video projection by NIM. The video is programmed to create “visual beats” that play along with the tracks from all our compilations. There is also an MTV-style info bumper that appears at the bottom left whenever a new track starts. NIM will be doing some live VJing at the Nudie Party, on November 11 (18:00-23:00).
For those interested, I’ve posted the complete playlists — after the jump — for the compilations that we are playing at the cafe during the “Nudie Cafe” event. Contributors are Hideki Kaji, Embee, Hird, Hej Musik, and Marc Xavier LeBlanc (Bones), and all music is 100% Swedish.
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A few new magazines I picked up for the cafe earlier today.
I had time to put a few images from the “Nudie Cafe” event up on my Flickr account — here’s a link to the photoset. I’ll add some more shots over the week.
Screen printing the tees from PMFKA for the “Nudie Cafe” event. We get them tomorrow, and they will be on sale at the cafe from Monday (which marks the start of the event).
Here’s a sneak peak at the tee PMKFA has designed for our Swedish Style event, “Nudie Cafe.” The idea was to remix the original Nudie Jeans tees, and I’m rather happy with the result. The final version, which will be sold at the cafe, we’ll have slightly different colors.
Kyoto-based graphic designer Karl Escritt’s exhibition is now on at the cafe, until October 22. I’ve put up a Flickr photoset of pics I took yesterday of the works on display. He also has postcards for sale, as well A4 and A3-sized prints (200 yen, 700 yen, and 1000 yen respectively).
I picked up the following magazines for the cafe yesterday.
As part of his upcoming show at the cafe, artist/designer Karl Escritt will be exhibiting some prints on textile, which you can see previewed above.
Karl Escritt’s exhibition at the cafe will start this coming Monday (October 16), and will last for a week (until October 22). The image above is the poster he created for the show.
I just posted a Flickr photoset of shots from the “Test [N]” sound/video performance we had last month at the cafe. They’re having another performance, this time with Tupelo Drive, a full accoustic band (which will be accompanied by Kei Suzuki on visuals), tonight (September 30) from 20:00.
The site for our Swedish Style event is now online. Nudie Cafe — a collaboration with Swedish fashion brand Nudie Jeans — will take place during the first two weeks of November. We only just launched the site, so don’t have that much info to share yet, but keep an eye for more details to be revealed over the next few weeks.
Thank you everyone who came to last night’s PauseTalk. I’ll update the PauseTalk site later today with the list of participants. Next edition happens October 2.
Tonight is this month’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 4), but last month I invited participants to share images of their favorite/interesting Tokyo spots, and the image you see here is a collage of a few of them.