Jean Snow [.net]

Month: March 2005

  • Pink Building

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    A colorful building on Cat Street, in Harajuku.

  • Tokujin Yoshioka Design

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    You are going to want to have a look at the works of Tokujin Yoshioka Design. I’ll prepare a more detailed MoCo Tokyo entry sometime this week. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Anime Column for March

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    For those who missed it, my latest anime column at Tokyo Q was posted last Friday. I review GANKUTSUOU and TRAVA – FIST PLANET.

  • TV Salaries

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    My love for Yukie Nakama is pure, going back to her days as the star of the most excellent TRICK series, and I’m shocked to learn how little the star of a top-rated show gets paid — although I just have the American TV industry to compare with. Nippon TV’s Saturday night drama “Gokusen” is…

  • When Masters Were Young

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    English subs! English subs! English subs! This is volume two of the “Masters of the Japanese Cinema” series, part one of which enjoyed great popularity especially among foreign fans of Japanese film in June 2004. Again offering an attractive set of movies shown with English subtitles, the program this time is made up of Ichikawa…

  • Docomomo_100 Japan

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    The Docomomo 100 in Japan was featured in the September 2004 issue of CASA BRUTUS (54), which happened to be a bilingual issue. Docomomo was established in 1988 in Holland as an “international working party for document and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement” (from the Website). This event introduces in…

  • Zoo

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    This looks like a must-see: Welcome to the fantastic world of Otsuichi, a popular, 1978-born novelist whose style mixes chilly elements mystery that send shivers down your spine with a sense of dolour that makes his works relentless attacks on the heartstrings. “Zoo” is a selection of five sequences taken from a compilation of short…

  • Jeans Now!

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    You know, I really should change my focus and get that clothing brand thing going… (thanks, Nick) Long thought to be a deeply ironic bogus Japanese clothing brand—Jeans! Now! Actually the personal site of Jean Snow, a Canadian living in Tokyo. His focus: design, retail, weird Japanese visual bands such as Kiiiiii. (Gridskipper)