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Category: City Life

  • Cafe de Crie

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    I’m not particularly fond of the Cafe de Crie chain, but they just opened a new branch last Friday not far from my place (it’s in a new restaurant complex called Face), and it’s actually not half bad. Also, hard to believe, but that guy on the left was actually wearing a Bape tee —…

  • Shibaura Island Block Renovation

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    I don’t really get what this event is all about, but Groovisions have something to do with it, which is enough for me to take notice. An invitation by “Picnic Cafe” to enjoy cities and experience one’s own futuristic view of urban space. (TAB) At Spiral until April 6.

  • The Art of Living

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    Time to get some tips on improving your homelife. “Are you comfortable at home?” Everybody has their own idea about comfort. But is there a specific type of home which many people would find pleasing? What is the determining factor of a comfortable home? In this event, five architects experienced in various housing issues will…

  • Mystery of Beauty

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    Another promising event in this year’s “Deutschland in Japan” calendar of projects. This is a collaboration between the architecturally impressive, castle-like Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, and Matsushita Electric Works, the headquarters of which are located in an equally impressive highrise building in Tokyo. While German industrial design is primarily…

  • Kateigaho International

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    I haven’t been keeping up with the magazine KATEIGAHO INTERNATIONAL. Although it does sport some gorgeous photography throughout, the content just doesn’t seem to interest me that much, as their focus definitely wanders towards the more traditional aspects of Japan. I did have a look through the latest issue (Spring 2005) earlier today, and there…

  • Office Meguro Closed

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    I was at Claska last Friday to see the “Catholic” show — very enjoyable, and loved the vibrating cat — and thought I’d stop by Office in Meguro, since I’m never in that area. I first went up to the desk person at the hotel to find out when it opened, and she looked at…

  • Bye Bye Bape Cafe

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    Another sign that Bape is nowhere near where it was a couple of years ago: I stopped by the Bape Cafe in Aoyama earlier today only to see that it had closed down, with a tiny sign on the window explaining that this had happened for “certain reasons.” Yeah, certain reasons. Love the brand or…

  • Tokyo International Anime Fair

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    Next weekend (April 2-3) sees the big Tokyo International Anime Fair at Tokyo Big Sight. The biggest animation trade show in Japan attracts over 50,000 visitors in two days to see the latest anime features and TV shows, games and characters goods. 130 Japanese production companies and TV broadcasters, as well as about 30 international…

  • Shinako Sato

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    Barbie, like you’ve never seen her before. Photographer Shinako Sato reportedly worked for five years as a makeup artist for a mortician, daubing the dead with lipstick. Perhaps that explains her fascination with elaborately staged and dressed dioramas of stiff figures (thankfully, dolls not real dead people). Sato works with Barbie dolls and plastic figures,…

  • Uniqlo Creative Award 2005

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    Pics from the “Uniqlo Creative Award 2005” exhibition at Spiral in Aoyama.