Recently, Apple has been on a roll. Since the introduction of the iMac last Summer, this company has turned itself around 180 degrees and has gotten back on its feet. This year, with the introduction of the iBook, an ...

DE LA GUARDA “VILLA VILLA”

1999.7.23　 Text: Rei Inamoto

If you think of this show "De La Guarda - Villa Villa" as one of your normal theater experiences, think again. If you haven't seen this show in New York City, go get your tickets right now. "De La Guarda - Villa Villa...

FAZE FESTIVAL

1999.6.23　 Text: Rei Inamoto

With the slogan "Subvert the Future," Faze Festival opened its curtain to　a sold-out audience last Sunday. Showcasing fifteen-plus new and exclusive commercials and music videos, some of which are banned from the mai...

EROTICA EXPO 1999

1999.5.23　 Text: Eddie Pak

After several successful showings in the UK, Erotica, a sex themed convention, spent 4 days at Manhattan's Jacob Javits Center. The coming of the convention (excuse the pun) supposedly brought on a lot of opposition ...

DFTV CONFERENCE

1999.4.22　 Text: Eddie Pak

The American Institute of Graphics Arts (AIGA) ran its first conference on design for film and television, DFTV.001, this past month at the Equitable Center in midtown Manhattan. Directed by Emily Oberman and Bonnie ...

ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE “ISCAPES 1.0”

1999.3.22　 Text: Eddie Pak

Even after being a student of architecture, a lot of architectural works are still hard to digest or even minimally understand. Especially when it comes to it's "paper" (only in thought) or "digital" (OK, it's 1999) ...

UNLIMITED BY DESIGN

1999.2.22　 Text: Eddie Pak

"Unlimited by Design" is the name of the current exhibition at The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in the Upper West Side's Museum Mile. The show features over 150 designs of what can be thought of as Univer...

PREMISES: INVESTED SPACES IN ARTS, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN FROM FRANCE, 1958 – 1998

1999.1.22　 Text: Rei Inamoto

Currently presented at the Guggenheim Museum Soho in Downtown New York City is "Premises," an extensive survey of French art, architecture, and design in the past forty years. The theme of this show "premises," with i...

NEW CHINESE ART EXHIBITION

1998.12.22　 Text: Eddie Pak

PS1 out in Queens is holding a great show called Inside Out: New Chinese Art. It is an exhibition showcasing modern artists from this century in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong as well as Chinese artists l...

UNDERWORLD

1998.12.22　 Text: Eddie Pak

On the eve of Thanksgiving, November 23rd, Underworld played a great show at the Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom in Midtown. By the time I arrived, the show was sold out, a long line stood way down 34th Street...

THE ART OF THE MOTORCYCLE

1998.10.22　 Text: Eddie Pak

Friday late afternoons at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum are free or rather have an open donation admissions policy ("pay what you want"), so I made my way up to the museum and waited on a long line wrapping around 88t...

RET.INEVITABLE

1998.7.21　 Text: Drunken Masta

Last month a bunch of us went to this event called Ret.Inevitable in this warehouse under the Brooklyn Bridge. A few of us didn't have tickets, figuring it'd be pretty easy to get them when we were there... well that...