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Category: Tokyo Boy

  • KDa Signing

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    KDa superstars Mark and Astrid signing their new book, following their lecture last Friday night.

  • The Emperor

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    Emperor Hirohito, on a wall off Omotesando. Taken with iPhone using the Toy Camera app.

  • Malin Baumann and the Gorilla Store

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    OK Fred‘s Gorilla Store #3 is now over, but I still wanted to put up a few photos from the space, featuring Malin Baumann‘s items. Really loved the graphic patterns seen on the badges above — each one represents a letter from the alphabet. I’m hoping she follows through with what she told me and…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, again with previews for next week’s Milano Salone. Included in the round-up: Studio Ito‘s Kigokoro lamp (above), Books‘ Bambi and Web chairs, Gwenael Nicolas‘ Mist Bench, Shigeru Ban‘s 10 Unit System, Naoto Fukasawa‘s lights for Panasonic, and Drill Design‘s Paper-Wood Stool.

  • PauseTalk Vol. 30

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    It wasn’t the insane turnout from last month, but the twenty or so participants for this month’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 30) contributed to a better talk — where everyone can join in — even if things did get more opiniated and heated than they usually do. I think everyone got a lot out of…

  • Commenting Fixed

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    Commenting should be back up. After being down for a week, it’s thanks to my constant tech lifesaver, Patrick, who suggested I take a look at the site’s database. That was indeed the problem — the comments table had crashed, and was in need of repair.

  • Commenting Down

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    It appears that commenting on the site is not quite working right now, and I can’t really figure out why. Thanks to everyone for letting me know about the problem, I’m trying to fix it. Update: Well, I can’t figure out what the hell the problem is. I’ve re-installed WordPress, tried downgrading, switched themes, and…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, again with coverage of Japan-related projects to be shown at this month’s Milano Salone. Above, Chris Kirby‘s Spiral Lamp.

  • New Business Card

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    That’s my new business card. The idea is by designer Ji Lee, who offered up a template for it on his website — unfortunately, that template is a bit too low-res, so I had to re-create the design at a higher resolution for print (and thank you Erika for prepping it for print). Too cheeky?…

  • 101TOKYO Opening

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    On Wednesday I attended the opening for this year’s second edition of 101TOKYO, held again in Akihabara, but this time at the Akiba Square event space inside the UDX building. It’s not really fair to compare this edition to last year’s — they were quite different beasts — so I’ll just congratulate Jason, Kosuke, Donald,…