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Mamma Gun Tote Bag

Mamma Gun Tote

You know you want a Mamma Gun tote bag! More Cafepress store offerings here. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I don’t get a penny from these.

Mamma Gun Clock

Mamma Gun Clock

Jesper is setting up a shop at Cafepress to sell Mamma Gun goods (it was always his intention to keep the brand alive even after the end of the event), and he’s starting things off with a clock! Expect tees and other merchandise to follow soon.

Update: Jesper has added a few more items, including a mug, and apron, and a bag.

Emma & Malena & NCM

Emma & Malena at Pause

Fresh from their contribution at our Mamma Gun event (they still have goods on sale there, in case you’re wondering), Emma & Malena have opened a temporary store at the Next Century Modern offices in Gothenburg. Oh, and NCM is also behind their nice new site.

Hideki Kaji at Cafe Pause

Cafe Pause

During our Mamma Gun event at Cafe Pause, Hideki Kaji came over to check things out, and he even blogged about it here (scroll down a bit).

Mamma Gun Has Left the Building

Mamma Gun

Some closing words from Jesper over at the TSiG blog about the end of the Mamma Gun event, with a few choice links for those who missed out on everything.

Mamma Gun for Everyone

Yuki finally gave our (now over) Mamma Gun event at Cafe Pause a visit, and lived to blog the tale. Oh, and she still has t-shirts for sale.

Mamma Gun at PingMag

Mamma Gun

PingMag‘s DailyCandy column checks out the Mamma Gun event!

Son of a Gun Party Pics

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Cafe Pause has put up a whole bunch of pics on their site covering all aspects of the Mamma Gun event, including a bunch from last Saturday’s “Son of a Gun” party.

Also, let me invite you all to another “sort of” party we’ll be having at Cafe Pause this coming Saturday night. It’s not an official party (just regular cafe hours and menu), but me and Jesper will certainly be there from 7 to commemorate the end of the Mamma Gun event. And since we still have a lot of vodka from our sponsor (thank you so much, Absolut), expect lots of free shots to be handed out.

Mamma Gun Tees in Full Color

Mamma Gun Tees

Look! Mamma Gun tees, in all five colors! Order now!

Tokyo Art & Design Pool on Flickr

Cafe Pause

Paul of Tokyo Art Beat has started a new photo pool on Flickr called, appropriately enough, “Tokyo Art & Design.” The TABlog now has a Flickr badge that streams pics from the pool, and it looks great. So join in, and start adding your pics! I’ll be be doing so sometime soon.

Pictured above, from the pool, is a pic Paul took during the “Son of a Gun” party at Cafe Pause this past Saturday.

The Aftermath of the Son of a Gun

Just got back from our big “Son of a Gun” party at Cafe Pause, and yes, I’m still sort of drunk, but I just want to thank everyone who came and helped make the event such a successful one. The place was full pretty much from start to finish, and it was so great to finally match some faces with names that have popped up in various comment threads on this site (you know who you are). Again, thank you all for the support, and here’s already looking forward to more events in this little part of town I call home (i.e. Ikebukuro).

Designing DYK

Craig Mod of Chin Music Press has started his series chronicling the design of the publisher’s next release, DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS. Here are direct links to the first three entries.

Also, if you’d like to find out more about the design process, Craig should be at our “Son of a Gun” party tomorrow night at Cafe Pause — how’s that for a plug!

Opening Day of Mamma Gun

Opening Day of Mamma Gun

As promised, here are a bunch of pics from the opening day of the Mamma Gun event at Cafe Pause. The image included in this post is a collage, and you can view all of these pics full-sized in the following Flickr set. We’re very happy with the way things are going, and can’t wait for the party on Saturday!

Mamma Gun Event Starts Today

Mamma Gun Poster

The Mamma Gun event at Cafe Pause starts today! I have to say, the place looks great, and I can’t wait to hear what people think of the whole thing. I will try to post some pics today. The image included in this post is of the new sign you’ll see outside of the cafe.

Also, we got the t-shirts yesterday night, so I’ll be shipping out the rest of the orders today or tomorrow morning (and warning, some colors — especially the red M size — are already close to selling out, so order quickly if you want one). I’ll be wearing mine today, so if you spot someone at the design events sporting the Mamma Gun logo, then that’s probably me.

Update: All orders were sent out this morning.

The Son of a Gun Birthday Party

Son of a Gun

The “Son of a Gun” birthday party we’re having at Cafe Pause this coming Saturday (18:00-24:00), part of our Mamma Gun event, has it’s own TAB page.

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.

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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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