PEOPLE
SHU LEA CHEANG
In November, 1998, "Amsterdam Impact" - a talk salon by a media activist Geert Lovink from the Netherland - was held at Shibuya XP in Tokyo. At the salon there was an another guest talk session which was taken by Shu ...
International online magazine features creative culture
PEOPLE
CHMAN
The design team 'Chman' who deals with interactive design on web in the north of France, Lille produced the cover graphic of this month. They build up their original style with flash making use of characters based on...
HAPPENING
THE 23RD HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The 23rd Hong Kong International Film Festival will take place from March 31st - April 15th, 1999. This two week event will act as a showcase of cinema in Asia as well as a platform of Hong Kong Cinema Retrospec...
PLACE
MEAN FIDDLER TAVERN
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...
PLACE
MUTTER
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...
HAPPENING
SANKAI JUKU “HIBIKI – RESONANCE FROM FAR AWAY”
If the Sankai Juku company is considered as stars in Japan (It was born in 1975) Buto dancing is still an enigma for the french audience. This enigma fascinates and most of the time gives rise to a complete success. I...
PEOPLE
EYE MAGAZINE
There's nothing wrong with a bit of intellectualising; especially if it helps you understand what the hell it is you're doing, sitting there in the studio with you're little mouse wriggling around in your hand all day...
HAPPENING
PREMISES: INVESTED SPACES IN ARTS, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN FROM FRANCE, 1958 – 1998
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...
THINGS
RADIO VALVE
With the rapid growth of Internet audio technologies such as RealAudio, net broadcasting is becoming a revolutionary trend to produce more profound multimedia on the Internet. There are several major network players i...
THINGS
THE CODEXSERIES
The Codexseries is an ongoing CD-ROM project that consists of 4 projects by 4 different talents in the digitial medium who are are dealing with the issue of narrative and storytelling in new and interesting ways. ...
PEOPLE
DESIGNINGS
Observing the font boom amongst the young designers, one can tell that fonts are a very good mean to express the designers' identity. Then, how about 'patterns'? As there have been many different 'patterns' out there ...
HAPPENING
ERO POP CHIRISMAS
Takashi Murakami has been the center of the attention in the Japanese modern art scene ever since he made up his original character DOB-Kun a few years ago. He runs an art factory Hiropon Factory that is firmly ...
