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Category: City Life

  • Tokyo Boy 03

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    Episode 3 of my TOKYO BOY podcast series is now online. It was recorded last Monday (May 15) while walking around Harajuku and Aoyama. I’m including links to all 3 episodes, but you can also subscribe to the feed. Tokyo Boy 03 (10.9MB, 22:54) Tokyo Boy 02 (7.6MB, 15:48) Tokyo Boy 01 (9.5MB, 18:44)

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Design Festa Paul Smith Space You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • An Afternoon in Harajuku and Aoyama

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    I had quite a productive day yesterday, starting early in Harajuku, followed by an interview session for the METROPOLIS podcast (about a piece I’m writing for them), and then some more walking around Aoyama. Took plenty of pictures — including that new building in Harajuku I’ve been talking lots about — and I’ll put those…

  • APMT2

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    Yosuke Kurita of CBCNET has sent me word of the APMT2 design/art conference he’s producing, which will also be accompanied by an exhibition. I happens June 17-18 at SuperDeluxe (with the exhibition June 17-July 2 at Gallery SpeakFor), with more info here.

  • Inside the New Bondi Books

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    Bondi Books, the used English bookstore in Kichijoji, has just updated its blog with pictures of the new shop interior. What a change from the old shop!

  • Yuri Arai

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    The next exhibition we have scheduled for Gallery Pause is by artist Yuri Arai, being held June 5-18. The image you see here is from the event flyer.

  • Gallery Pause

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    I haven’t talked about it here yet, but I recently was put in charge of organizing the gallery space at Cafe Pause. As manager of Gallery Pause, I’m in charge of dealing with artists, and accepting or rejecting requests for shows (as well as helping with the setup). I was waiting to put up some…

  • Billionaire Boys Club

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    The Billionaire Boys Club (Nigo/Pharell) store in Harajuku — which I’m assuming is a Wonderwall design, even though it’s not listed on their site — along with the space for its Ice Cream brand.