Month: February 2003

After weeks of terribly cold weather here in Tokyo, today is just amazing. We’re supposed to get temperatures up to 16, and it really does feel like a beautiful Spring day. I have all of the windows in the apartment open, and put out our futons outside to air them out. Feels great. I’m just…

SUBVITAMINE: Beautiful pictures, with a very nice and simple way to view them. I really need to learn some Flash.

A new issue of the excellent webzine THIS IS A MAGAZINE is out. Issue 8 is the beautiful losers issue. Next issue will be out in March. Reminds me that I have to get to work on a new issue of GEISHA.

Phil Brown directs TV commercials, but the kind that you actually like watching. Some of his Ikea ones are especially funny. Check out his website to see a few of them. The site’s design isn’t bad either.

You can see the new video by Bran Van 3000, which features Momus, for the song “Shopping” by going following this link. I haven’t heard this album, but I did like BV3000’s first release, which came out 5-6 years ago I think.

The picture that you see today (030207) shows the way in to A Bathing Ape’s Milo store, which is located under BAPE Cuts in Aoyama. As you go in (I’ll have a picture of the doors on Monday, which are mirrored, with a huge Milo in the design, and slide open) you walk down these…

This is my latest desktop. I’ve been using these monthly Chappie desktops for over a year now. You can get them here. And for those wondering, the devil mask worn by the person on the left refers to the Setsubun holiday which took place last Monday. You throw some beans while wearing the mask (which…

The first of the new Matrix anime shorts is now available online. Directed by Mahiro Maeda, it’s called “The Second Renaissance – Part 1”, and it starts to tell the story of how the robots came to confront the humans. Very good stuff, and I can’t wait for the DVD that will contain all of…

Sorry for the lack of a new picture today, but I had to leave home really early this morning (well, early for me anyways, meaning around 10) to go to Shibuya to take care of my visa renewal. It’s something I always dread, as it never goes smoothly, and is was of course the same…

I stopped at a record store on my way back from work tonight and was very pleasantly surprised to see that the new Momus album, OSKAR TENNIS CHAMPION, was out. Released on Quattro here in Japan, it comes in a very nice digipak casing featuring beautiful artwork by Florian Perret (the graphic you see on…