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Category: City Life

  • Marxy Does Creativity Now

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    Marxy went to yesterday’s “Creativity Now Tokyo” event, and he’s just posted a write-up. He also got some copies of his new album.

  • Christmas Madness

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    The outside wall of the Akasaka Prince Hotel in Tokyo is lit up for the Christmas season. (Japan Today) Oh god, even here, where Christmas isn’t really celebrated, Christmas stuff is up everywhere. At Seibu, the trees were up on October 30. Is there no escape? And at work, I had to start going over…

  • Sato Kashiwa

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    This month’s GGG exhibition, “Kashiwa Sato BEYOND,” starts today. In November 2004, Ginza Graphic Gallery will hold an exhibition called Kashiwa Sato BEYOND. Kashiwa Sato symbolizes trends in today’s design world as an artist who constantly expands the framework of art direction in projects that lightly transcend traditional boundaries such as graphics, product design and…

  • Tokyo by Jesper

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    Jesper posts a great photo essay of his recent visit to Tokyo over at the TSiG blog.

  • Nadiff

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    The entrance to Nadiff in Aoyama.

  • Arto Lindsay Tour

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    Arto Lindsay is touring Japan! The cliche of the artist who “destroys the preestablished harmony” is probably the most boring thing a writer can come up with these days, but in the case of Arto Lindsay one doesn’t have to care about how to avoid falling back on the same old formula again, as his…

  • Port Launch Party

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    Electronic artist evala launches his new music label, Port, at the Ginza Apple Store. Known primarily in Osaka as the organizer of the “Port” series of electronic music sessions hosted by Osaka City in 2002 and 2003, artist evala has launched a new label with the same name as his events. The first item in…

  • An Afternoon in Shibuya

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    Headed out early today to get to Shibuya with Yuko. She has some things she needs to do all day at the Tokyo University Komaba campus, so I tagged along until Shibuya, and am spending the afternoon in the area. I started off with Tower Records, where I finally picked up the first issue of…

  • Resonate at Bullet's

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    Just a reminder that tonight is the RESONATE event at Bullet’s, that will include a performance by Glam Tool, featuring good friend Hirano Midori. Glam Tool opens the show at 5.

  • Metropolis 553

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    This week’s issue of city guide METROPOLIS has quite a few interesting articles in it, which I’ll rundown in one post instead of multiple entries. After a week, look in their sidebar archives for issue 553. The cover feature is a short story — “Watercolors,” taken from his DARK WATER collection — by RINGU author…