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April 19, 2008
Things I am Embarrased to Like
This new music video also seems to double as a ridiculous and elaborate ad for Pino. As someone who works in an advertising agency, I love that sort of thing (sarcasm…I think).
Below are Perfume again, during their middle-school days.
Posted by shane at 02:22 AM
April 17, 2008
Vacation
Steve Jobs talks about working with Paul Rand.
Posted by shane at 05:59 AM
April 16, 2008
Hello World
Great new site, Hello World for Softbank by THA. Reminiscent of Groovisions and somehow even reminds me of Katamary Damashii. Use the full screen mode. Wonderful!
Posted by shane at 05:36 AM
April 11, 2008
E-Naut May 3rd
I’ll be the VJ for Ametsub, an electronic musician who I really like at this E-Naut event in Roppongi Hills’ Mado Lounge on May 3rd. Ametsub is on Progressive Form, with the debut album Linear Cryptics that came out in 2006. Takamori K, who will be DJing this event, invited me. Taka is a prolific DJ who is also a copywriter at W+K.
Posted by shane at 09:39 PM
Tokyo.Ten
Tokyo.Ten is a project that’s been going on for quite a while now at Tokyo Lab. Its coming down to the wire, and finally I got my piece in for it, as the book will go out to print pretty soon. Tokyo.Ten is the tenth release from W+K Tokyo Lab, and will be a book+DVD full of our best videos, an archive of our work, and foremost a collection of artworks inspired by Tokyo from everyone we’ve ever collaborated with from day 1 (and who agreed to take part in the project). The process of many of the ongoing artworks have been made available at the Tokyo.Ten blog that has been ongoing for the past couple months, so check it out if you haven’t already. Look for the book in record stores and select shops in Japan in a couple months from now. Of course I’ll post again when the final release date is apparent.
Posted by shane at 03:05 AM
April 10, 2008
iGoogle Art Café
As part of W+KT’s ongoing Artist campaign for Google Japan, the iGoogle Art Café in Roppongi Hills will open starting this Saturday. iGoogle Art Café was concepted, designed and executed by WKT’s team Google, and will be open 11 AM to 11 PM through April 24th. Special Google menu, dessert, and drinks are also available. The café is in the event space that is opposite the entrance to TOHO cinemas, and the big spiraling staircase you would go up to enter Mori art museum.
The iGoogle artists page where you can download artists’ iGoogle skins and gadgets is here, and an iGoogle Art Café blog has also been started.
Posted by shane at 07:38 PM
My Website was Down
And now its back. I am constantly at the mercy of forces I don’t yet understand about the hosting of my site. My friend Carlos has been hosting my site for a long time, and finally this year we tried to transfer it to my own account with Dreamhost. Apparently the domain name has transferred over to me, although the files for the site are still stored in some other place I think. Beyond this, I need a big chunk of free time to figure all this out, and that is certainly something which is highly elusive in my life. So, if this website ever goes down again, apologies in advance to anyone who is paying attention, and you can safely assume that I am not working on the problem.
Posted by shane at 07:17 PM