Category: City Life
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The Manufacturing of Booms
Over at Clast, Marxy examines booms as a marketing strategy, and the end of an era. I’m just sorry I missed out on 1957, the year of the Calypso Style.
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This Week in Cycling
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Time to share some cycling playlists! If you have some mixes you’ve made for riding please post the track list in the comments thread. Here’s my latest one, I call it “Cyclo de GO!” Air Miami – “Airplane Rider” Mark Robinson – “100% Garanteed” Holland – “Anorexic Colt Herd” Pixies – “Alison” Black Francis –…
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Happening in Tokyo
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Marxy will be DJing at Bar Drop in Kichijoji tomorrow night (Friday, February 22). It’s an all-night event. Yuki Nakano will have her first solo exhibition at Cafe Nalu in Omotesando, March 1-15. Later that month, she will also have a photography exhibition at Cafe Pause.
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Speakerdog Greatest Hits
I mentioned it last year, and I’m very happy to announce that we’re finally getting close to hosting a Speakerdog exhibition at Cafe Pause. The show, which will take place the week of March 17-23, is called “The Greatest Hits,” and will include, well, a greatest hits collection all five series that have been released…
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Nagoya Design Do!
The city of Nagoya is holding their bi-annual design competition, “Nagoya Design Do!” You can send in submissions April 1-30, and you’ll find all the details on how to do that here. Via Core77.
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TAB Talks
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It’s not enough that Tokyo Art Beat has been THE best resource for bilingual art and design event information, now they’re following it up with a new series of talk events called, appropriately enough, TAB Talks. You can read Paul Baron’s post over at TABlog for all the details on what promises to be a…
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Ginza the Edge
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This past Friday night saw the opening of Alin Huma’s new gallery space, Ginza the Edge. The inaugural show, “Photography,” runs until February 29. It was a great turnout, and we pretty much filled up the relatively small space. The gallery actually takes up Alin’s apartment, and so every piece of “daily living” got removed…
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This Week in Cycling
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What happens when you drop by Y’s Road in Ikebukuro? You may just run into Alin Huma, who biked there from Ginza, on the hunt for some spokes. I was there to get some degreaser and lube — I got scolded by Craig for not doing proper maintenance on my bike. It’s always nice to…