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TOKYO DESIGN
The text frightened me today is the special feature 'TOKYO DESIGN' in June issue of Studio Voice. It features lots of people who create and send off old, middle and new visuals in today's Tokyo. I'm happy to read th...
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DOBSF
I cannot write text at all and I'm frightened by text. Because I think text is an ultimate form of multimedia, and text is what all things in the universe are coded and visualized. Recently kanji (Chinese character) ...
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SPRIGGAN
The Hong Kong International Film Festival has just ended and during its run from March 31st to April 15th, there were a variety of wonderful films for the masses to get a taste of. One of those was the Hirotsugu Kawa...
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STELARC
Australian based performance artist Stelarc has been experimenting with new approaches to the internet in the recent years. In the course of time he has wired his body (with a 3rd electronic limb) to the internet s...
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TYPO ’99
About once a year, in Germany, there's a conference for designers to attend. This year I chose to attend TYPO '99 in Berlin which was sponsored by the FontShop. This years theme was image and language, and didn't foc...
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MARK ROTHKO EXHIBITION
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) at Musee d'art Moderne de Paris. It was only the second time that the French audience had the opportunity to penetrate into the minimal landscape work of Mark Rothko and for most of the people...
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EROTICA EXPO 1999
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 ...
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BURNING MAN 1999
A fifteen meter high gigantic figure engulfed in flames. Naked men and women walking proudly. More than ten thousand participants under a burning sun. The spirit of 'No Spectators'. 'Burning Man' is a kind of new fest...
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STEVE ETO
Steve Eto plays an active part as the only Japanese-American metal rock percussionist living in Japan and also active as a member of the mixture-music band 'DEMI SEMI QUAVER'. He also shows his unusual talents as a fa...
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DAVID SYLVIAN
Most of people, probably know David Sylvian for the unforgettable voice that illustrated "Forbidden colors" the song by Ryuichi Sakomoto, the soundtrack of the motion picture "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence". Other peop...
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JONNI NITRO
The comic by Tubatomic Studio, "Jonni Nitro". A secret agent Jonni is involved in various cases one after another. It's just like a spy movie making full use of motion trace and high contrast photographic images in...
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MONSOON
The next is "MONSOON VOL.02" whose the great cover by Hirohiko Araki who dealt with 'JOJO'. The contents is also great and too deep. The sense of those that we can feel at the actual scene drives into my eyes with ...
