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  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    This week’s Tokyo post at MoCo Loco is up, covering the new Iida phones (above, Naoto Fukasawa’s PRISMOID), Ryohei Yoshiyuki‘s “Time of the Sky” watch, and Nendo‘s Music Cage speaker.

  • New Season, New Look

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    If you’re reading this through a feed reader — and based on my stats, most of you are — clicking through to the site will reveal something a bit different. Truth be told, I’ve hated the look of this site for quite a while. I started planning for a change back in January, but a…

  • ‘Stache for the Memories

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    After getting rid of the beard a couple of weeks ago, I think it’s now time to say goodbye to the ‘stache.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering the Eneloop 3-way flashlight (above), Hideo Kawamura’s Rezon Cutter Pendant, Nobuhiro Teshima’s Crank Trick #2 deak, and news of the DESIGNEAST event in Osaka.

  • PauseTalk Tonight

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    Just a reminder that PauseTalk (Vol. 34) is indeed on tonight (September 7) at Cafe Pause, with the usual start time of 20:00. More details here.

  • Next PauseTalk

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    The rumors are true: despite me still having to stay on my back most of the day while my spine heals, I think I’m in good enough shape to walk over to the cafe and host PauseTalk this month, so hope everyone can make it. If for nothing else, come see me in my scary…

  • Launching Books

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    Big thanks to Tim for sending this photo of me he took at last year’s launch party for Arcade Mania — a year late, but still great. That box from Tobu I’m holding was a giant bottle of Chimay, courtesy of my friend CheapyD. Hmmm…. I miss drinking beer — doctor has me on an…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My new Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Kisa Kawakami’s Kisawings lamp (above), Hironori Inada’s Ceramic Pendant Lamp, and Spoon & Tamago’s round-up of 2010 calendars by D-BROS.

  • Urban Paper

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    Despite the fact that I’ve been house-bound and on my back for the past month, I’m very glad to say that the “Urban Paper” paper toy art show and book launch is still happening at Cafe Pause next month. Produced by Josh McKible — who you all know from NaniBird — it celebrates the recently…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My latest Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, covering the following: Fumie Shibata’s Nagomi utensils (above), No Quiet’s Naname glasses, Naoto Fukasawa’s netbook for Samsung, Suikosha’s “Anything Collection” of desktop accessories, Jun Yasumoto’s Reading Lamp, and Ryohei Yoshiyuki’s ash tray.