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June 29, 2008
Tokyo.Ten Party
I came jet-lagged fresh from three flights, Berlin to Paris, Paris to Seoul, Seoul to Tokyo, two airport buses and various trains, in total over 24 hours of constant travel the previous day, into a long sleep into Tokyo’s Friday afternoon, waking up into the final preparations for the Tokyo.Ten opening party that evening. It was successful beyond my imagination; probably the best party I’ve seen associated with our office. Tons of people, lots of connections and exchange, and seemingly a genuine interest in the book, artworks, and videos themselves. If you missed the party, you can of course still visit the exhibition which will be ongoing until 7.27.
The setup:
The party, ground floor:
In the gallery, 2nd floor (there is another gallery on the 7th, which I didn’t shoot in):
The Bohla watch continues to generate conversation the world over, this time, with Alvin and Maki
People:
Mark, always with his fish-eye equipped
Maki and Kiyo-chan
W+K girls, Lina and Mai-chan
Jemapur, our next artist for Lab, was one of the DJs tonight, with WOOG and Uppercut.
Hutch, AD of W+K whose work is also included in Tokyo.Ten
Shingo, aka Merce Death, AD of W+K who also performed live
Woog and I
No forgetting though, this is a Tokyo Lab party, a record label after all, and the musical showcase is saved for another party on the 24th. And I fear there will be a whole lot of preparation to do between now and then.
The book itself will be out from 7.01, and I would recommend picking it up at Roppongi’s ACB, where there will be a sort of Tokyo.Ten takeover in the store. I found some nice photos of the book on CBCNET (where did they get those?)!
I almost forgot, +cruz, Woog, Sun An, and myself will do an exhibition of personal work starting next weekend also at Claska. As usual, the info is over at wktokyolab.com/ten. Busy days ahead, not even thinking yet about the status of ‘real’ client projects.
Posted by shane at 04:50 AM
June 15, 2008
From Podcast to Muxtape
Pardon my sudden intrusion into this long and dull period of silence, but I’ve decided to start using muxtape. I’ve found it a bit buggy, but incredibly tasteful, and really the bugs are forgivable given that it’s been masterminded entirely by a single young developer. Anyhow, my muxtape for now will be the new spiritual home of my deceased podcast, so for anyone who enjoyed that, please give it a listen. Muxtape allows you only 12 songs at a time, but luckily I’m the kind of person who often finds constraints liberating, especially in a creative sense. As the mix changes, you won’t be able to listen to the previous tracks, so if you are interested, better take note. I’ll continue to try and focus mainly on Japanese music, anywhere from sugary stupid pop songs to the proudly obtuse and obscure. Credit for the Hi Posi track in the current mix goes to Digiki, who left it on my hard drive during our Drag+Drop production process. Listen here.
Posted by shane at 04:15 PM
June 04, 2008
Brand Tags
Brand Tags is an interesting site that gives a fascinating picture of the free associations people have with a number of brands. Some of the biggest associations for Nike: Sports, Sweatshop, Child Labor. For Apple: Awesome, Innovative, Expensive. Suggestion to the creator of this site: Think about implementing a system that groups those tags together that are essentially the same meaning. For example, Apple has an similarly heavy tag for both the words innovation and innovative. If both were recognized as essentially one tag, a more accurate reaction could be garnered.
Posted by shane at 07:39 PM
Brother’s Firefight
Posted by shane at 07:36 PM