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Category: City Life

  • We’re #1

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    Can you spare some change? Tokyo remains the most expensive city in the world in terms of cost of living, a report released Tuesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed. (Kyodo News)

  • Canada Goes Wild

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    Canada’s Design Exchange organization — they promote the work of Canadian designers — is organizing the “Canada Goes Wild” event at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo (March 31) and at the World Expo in Aichi (April 7). Pictured above is the new stamp from Canada Post to commemorate the Expo. Here’s the official site for…

  • Shirokuma

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    SHIROKUMA is a beautiful flash-based online photographic magazine, and today marks the start of their first gallery exhibition, “Idle Network.” This is Shirokuma’s first gallery exhibition, after over two years on the scene as an online photographic magazine (http://srkm.org). The expressive power of photography was always a topic of concern to us, since photos easily…

  • Akira Exhibition 2005

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    Julia Barnes sends in this bit of info on the upcoming show of artist AKIRA at her Nakaochiai Gallery. Tokyo-based artist AKIRA presents his latest series of oil on canvas and board take on an imaginary world made only of blocks and numerous human figures. The landscape situates the artist in a stream of time,…

  • Aircons on Display

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    Huschang Pourian’s “Aircon Minus 1” exhibition at Sign in Gaienmae.

  • A Late Afternoon in Harajuku and Aoyama

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    After I wrote my last post at the Ginza Apple Store, I made my way to Muji Yurakucho only to find it so packed that I couldn’t have my usual snack and latte in the Meal Muji area (I didn’t want to wait in line). Also, the Atelier section was lame, only featuring new beds.…

  • An Afternoon in Ginza

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    After 2-3 weeks of being out of action because of my succession of health problems — I’m not completely out of the woods yet though, with allergies currently annoying the hell out of me — I’m finally able to go out for some city walking. First up, the GGG, where I just saw the excellent…

  • Tetsuson 2005

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    Get a peak at the next generation of designers at “Tetsuson 2005.” The idea behind this event is to produce a giant graduation exhibition by gathering final works by a total of 175 students from 29 art universities and design schools across Japan gather their graduation works. Participation is voluntary, which necessarily makes the event…

  • Aircon Minus 1

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    Huschang Pourian is a designer living in Tokyo, and he currently has an exhibition displaying his photography of air conditioners in the city at the Sign Gallery in Gaienmae until March 30. Link via Boing Boing.

  • Catholic

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    The Claska Gallery is about to host an exhibition that will preview the upcoming book CATHOLIC (out in May), published by Evil Twin and D.A.P. Artists in the show/book will include: Richard Kern, Jeremy Scott, Terry Richardson, Jess Holzwerth, Brian Degraw, Roe Ethridge, Pieter Schoolwerth, Judy Rifka, Eileen Myles, Liz Goldwyn, Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain,…