Category: City Life

  • Projecting Palla

    Palla currently has an exhibition at CASO in Osaka (until October 7), and posted this image of the space. Love the use of projectors, covering the entire walls with his work.

  • Tokyo Eye: Sanya

    The latest segment I did for the TOKYO EYE program is currently airing in this week’s episode (#48, you can see the broadcast schedule on NHK World here). It covers the Sanya area, which has long been known as an area with cheap hotels (frequented by day-laborers mostly), but in recent years has turned its…

  • Points 01

    The second episode of Jason DeGroot‘s POINTS series (following #0) is up on its own, after being first shown as part of the latest episode of the 1UP SHOW. It covers two great game-related shops, Meteor and Suteki (more details here).

  • Juliana Vol. 7

    Tokyo Fun Party‘s “Juliana” is back this Sunday (October 7) at Soft, this time offering an all-nighter (from midnight) since the following day is a holiday. Accompanying the TFP crew will be special guest DJs Jean Nipon from Paris and FUTON from Bangkok.

  • PauseTalk Tonight

    Tonight (October 1) is this month’s edition (Vol. 14) of PauseTalk at Cafe Pause, with the usual start time of 19:30. Looking forward to it!

  • Timberland Store by Assistant

    Megumi Matsubara (Assistant) is rather busy these days, and next up is the opening later this week of a new concept store in Shibuya for the Timberland brand. I’ll write a more detailed post for Gridskipper after the shop opens, but I got these sneak peek images of what the interior will look like, and…

  • Jane Stockdale at TGS

    Jane Stockdale is a Scottish photographer currently in town for an exhibition (I posted about it here — it runs until October 5). She had time to drop by the Tokyo Game Show, and sent me the shots you see in this post. She’s also set to drop by today’s edition of PauseTalk, where she’ll…

  • Tokyo Look Book at Cafe Pause

    I unfortunately wasn’t able to make it because because of my coverage of the Tokyo Game Show, but it sounds like the launch party at Cafe Pause for the TOKYO LOOK BOOK was a fun evening. Pictured above are photographer Yuri Manabe and writer Philomena Keet. You’ll find more details on how to get your…

  • TAB’s Kurikku Flyers

    I mentioned the upcoming Tokyo Art Beat 3rd anniversary party in my last event post the other day, and here’s a look at the flyers, which look quite nice.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

    RAKURA Cafe Mo’ MUJI You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).