Tokyo Boy – Page 113 – Jean Snow [.net]

Nintendo Love!

Sep 17, 2005

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Lots of Nintendo goodies at Tokyu Hands.

As I hinted last week, I will be doing some writing for THE JAPAN TIMES, starting with a regular column on design that should start appearing by the end of the month as part of a new lifestyle section that started this month (appears on Tuesdays). Also, I will be writing some other articles, like…

Nadiff

Sep 16, 2005

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Jean Snow

in Cafes, Stores, TB.Grafico

Walking down the stairs to enter Nadiff/Cafe Crepuscule in Aoyama/Harajuku.

New T-shirts in the Mail

Sep 14, 2005

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Jean Snow

in Fashion, Meta

I just placed an order for 5 t-shirts from Threadless, and I have you, my faithful readers to thank. These are all coming to me free, thanks to the points I received as a result of some of you ordering some tees while following this link. Unfortunately, the vast majority of their tees are currently…

Schoolyard

Sep 14, 2005

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Jean Snow

in Architecture, TB.Grafico

This is the school where Yuko went to vote last Sunday. It’s just a few minutes from where we live.

Earthquake-Ready

Sep 14, 2005

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Jean Snow

in General, TB.Movel

Earthquake emergency packs, on sale at Muji. Update: You can get more info (and see what is included) on these emergency sets (there are two; one goes for 12600 yen, the other for 6300 yen) at this page from the online Muji store.

A Political Post

Sep 13, 2005

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Jean Snow

in Meta, Society

For those who seem to find fault in my site because I don’t address political issues — it’s a design/pop culture site, silly — let me steer you to Momus’ latest post at Click Opera.

Podcasting Woes

Sep 13, 2005

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Jean Snow

in Meta

Well, I’m bummed. Yesterday while I was in Ginza I recorded what was to be the first edition of my Tokyo Boy podcast, a complete ripoff (ahem, I mean homage) to the audio blogs Momus had been doing for a while now. I raved/ranted my way through all my gallery visits, as well as other…