SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE
On January 26th, 2001, 'Sendai Mediatheque', which has also attracted a great deal of attention as architecture, finally opened. It's a huge complex media facility composed of the civic library of Sendai City, Gallery...
On January 26th, 2001, 'Sendai Mediatheque', which has also attracted a great deal of attention as architecture, finally opened. It's a huge complex media facility composed of the civic library of Sendai City, Gallery...
CG, movie, typography, space decoration and VJ, as well as graphic design... It's an obvious fact that visual expression connected with personal computers is becoming mainstream. Although the outline of those visua...
Many of the venues in New York City have started to move away from the centers of Manhattan in recent years. Places like Chelea galleries are a great escape not only from the daily dose of people and traffic of New Yo...
Here's a quick guide to some of the places I found interesting in Montreal when it comes to shopping, eating, and partying. I've included addresses and the corresponding metro stations . RECORDS Esoterik 222, St...
Photo: Bjoern Andersen About two hours by airplane from Paris, Copenhagen is a small city with a population of 100,000. There are three sights to see, The Little Mermaid, Tivoli and Christiania. This Christiania a...
On one pleasantly sunny Saturday in April, a friend calls me up while having dimsum in uptown Manhattan and asks me what I'm up to that afternoon. I'm not particularly up for anything so I decide to meet up with h...
Tired of bad sound system at your party? Just a stack of loud speakers don't turn you on any more? If you are looking for a true sonic stimulant that maxes out your adrenaline level, here's the alternative option--- ...
The Gallery Rocket in Harajuku was closed on February 29th, 2000. This gallery was started from Yasushi Fujimoto's hope that he wanted a place where he could see more artworks by young creators. He is the preside...
Last year's Christmas here in the U.S. was the season of the Internet shopping wars. The rapid growth in the online mail-order business triggered start-up entrepreneurs launching newly developed shopping sites almost ...
Anticlimactic millennium, anticlimactic millennium dome. We've all heard about it and how much it cost (although this is still less than www.boo.com) The place was described by Lina (who took the photos) as half c...
For several years, I've sometimes heard that `there's no spirit in bookstores compared with what they were' or what is worse, 'it's not interesting'. In fact there's some interesting books at bookstores. It's not too ...
From the 29th of July to the 8th of August Hamburg had their annual Freiluftkino in front of the Rathaus (city hall). So all the moviegoers gathered before dusk with chairs, blankets, and other objects of movie sup...
When people think of New York, they think of Manhattan. But New York doesn't really end there. Events and shows are starting to happen elsewhere outside of Manhattan, often in a more unconventional setting at a more e...
Located in a rather dull industrial neighborhood in Berkeley, Urban Ore is a locals' hidden hangout spot for scoping out unusual treasures. Formally described as "Discard Management Center", Urban Ore may be defined a...
Between a heavy dusting of snow, the PKK demonstrations and the rain take a break this month in the stand-up low-profile eatery Koch Salon. Having been around for the better part of a year, perhaps even longer, the...
Shift gently suggested I include news aside from music this month, which at first I found puzzling - I hadn't realised there was anything else of any importance. After some long hours of soul searching, however, I rea...
Like some kind of post-war bunker repossessed by post-age hippie kids, there sits a new bar between St. Pauli and Schanzenviertel. Mutter, an eclectic one at best, owes-up to being the new place to drink and listen to...