THINGS
SHIFT 2007 CALENDAR
The Shift calendar competition started in 2003 with an aim to discover fresh creators. The number of entries have increased year by year and have received 1267 entries from 49 countries this year. 12 carefully selecte...
International online magazine features creative culture
HAPPENING
BURNING MAN 2006
I took part in the Burning Man project held in Nevada, USA, for the first time. This event takes place every year for a week from the end of August to early in September. This is the event that all visitors are not vi...
COLETTE
COLETTE NEWS OCTOBER ’06
Former Aussie and now try-hard Parisien writer Linlee Allen wholly confesses to being the "all-round groupie" of concept store colette, located in the French capital. Having participated in the world-famous boutique's...
HAPPENING
DORKBOT TOKYO
"dorkbot"?, What's that? I hit on that question. I'd never seen it, so that's quite a natural...however, regardless of it, that question got bigger while I couldn't catch the detail if I visited Web site of it. As inf...
PLACE
PERLA MODE
The infamous red-light district in Zurich goes along Langstrasse and its side streets. In this seedy part of town you can also find some very good restaurants, shops and a high percentage of designers and artists. At ...
PLACE
REED SPACE TOKYO
On the night of September 15th, there was a crowd of people around the back street of Aoyama. The DJ booth had great DJs like Shuya Okino and DJ Muro, and the wayside was full with people from dyed-in-the-wool street ...
PEOPLE
TREVOR JACKSON
This month's cover of SHIFT was created by Trevor Jackson based in London and well known as a designer, a remixier, a producer, a DJ, and a label owner of music industry. His broad career started in the late 80s by d...
HAPPENING
DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2006
Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2006 will be held mainly by a Japanese TV program for the new century NHK "Digital Stadium" (Digista) which seeks new talents of digital art. The digital artworks from CG, animation, film wo...
HAPPENING
MUSIC & SCULPTURE
Speaking of art events in Sapporo, usually come up with West side of the city with "Soso Cafe" or Susukino district where you can find nightclubs. What about around Sapporo station? 7 to 8 minutes walk from a North ...
HAPPENING
ADAPTER “MEMAI”
Adapter 2nd exhibition "Memai" was held from August 19th to September 17th at the Nanzuka Uunderground. "Memai" is the exhibition by a graphic artists' group Adapter, which is lead by an Art Director Kenjiro Harigai, ...
HAPPENING
OCTOMANIA (ON DRAWING THE NUMBER EIGHT)
When I was 7 years old, the world of gambling was introduced to me through the 1989 Hong Kong film, "God of Gamblers". Inspired by the near-supernatural powers and sleight of hand techniques wielded by Chow Yun-Fat's...
HAPPENING
WHAT MAKES BERLIN ADDICTIVE?
Berlin is Germany's largest city and one of the most influential centers in European culture while Shanghai, the economic capital of the middle kingdom, is building skyscrapers faster than at the speed of sound. So wh...
