Wired Orchestra 2 days ago Read More
What you’re seeing: Jetdaisuke — yes, of the talkbox — playing an orchestra of Eletroplankton and Korg DS-10 on DS Lites, Mokugyo (with Cat) on iPod Touch, Brian Eno’s Bloom on iPhone, and a Korg ...
Objectified 2 days ago Read More
Gary Hustwit — director of the documentary Helvetica — has a new film in the works called Objectified, covering the world of product designer. Why do I feature it here? In honor of the cameo by Na...
High-Kick Girl Trailer 2 days ago Read More
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trailer that better lives up to a film’s title than this one for High-Kick Girl. Via Warren Ellis.
Less Shopping Time at Department Stores 2 days ago Read More
Economic crunch in Japan example #46: Tokyomango reports that the Mitsukoshi and Isetan department stores — they are both owned by the same company — will now be opened six days a week instead of t...
Almond Cafe Moves 7 days ago Read More
Time to find a new meeting spot in Roppongi. Almond Cafe — the branch which has occupied that particular corner of the Roppongi intersection since 1964 — is closing tomorrow to make way for a new b...
MoCo Loco Top 5 7 days ago Read More
Over at MoCo Loco, all contributors were invited to offer their top 5s for 2008. Here is mine, chosen from all the items that appeared in my “This Week from Tokyo” posts.
Beams Tokyo Cultuart 4 days ago Read More
Cscout Japan takes us on a tour of the newly opened Beams Tokyo Cultuart select shop in Harajuku — it’s part of the Beams empire of stores in the area. The product info browser — done through your...
KeKe Remixed 4 days ago Read More
Shantell Martin is kinking off 2009 with another remix project — you can see results from last year’s “On the March Remixed” project here — this time with the CD jacket she created for Tokyo-based...