AMSTERDAM WASTED!

1998.1.27　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

Amsterdam has its unique history in which a great number of artists who became political refygees were accepted and played a important role in the cultural center of Holland. As everyone knows, Amsterdam is a soft dru...

CASHMERE IS INCREDIBLY IN, AS IS LEATHER.

1997.12.20　 Text: Nicolas Roope

Cashmere is incredibly in, as is leather. Prize purchases this month are the transparent Nike socks which make the little tick look like a tattoo on your ankle. Another nice thing I saw was a YakPak bag in the sh...

PULP

1997.11.20　 Text: Mariko Takei

Have you read comics recently? If you think that comics are just for kids, check out the new monthly manga magazine PULP. Presented by Viz Communications in San Francisco, the first issue of PULP will feature 5...

+81

1997.10.27　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

A new magazine, +81, has been launched featuring articles about creators' workshop and process to complete their work. The first issue features Tomato, Dazed&Confused, a creative director of Parappa the Rapper, fa...

GILES ROLLESTONE “URBAN FEEDBACK”

1997.10.27　 Text: Rita

Urban Feedback by Giles Rollestone had been introduced at Siggraph in '95. Neville Brody's Research Studio at MILIA this year gave him an opportunity to distribute the CD-ROM. In Japan, it is sold at DIGITALOGUE. ...

TOKION

1997.10.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

Spearheading the Tokyo's underground scene, a new type of bilingual mag, TOKION, has launched its web site, including the past issues' content such as Fashion, Comics, Music, Art and People. TOKION was first r...

RADICAL BEAUTY

1997.9.20　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

"The history of art is simply a history of getting rid of the ugly by entering into it and using it. After all, the notion of something outside of us being ugly is not outside of us but inside of us. We are working wi...

NET VOICE IN THE CITY

1997.4.26　 Text: Chibashi

"Here comes the Bible for us living in the 90's" "Net Voice in the City", a book reporting on the cyber revolution on the west coast in the 90's U.S. SHIFT had an long interview with the author of the book, Yoshih...

EVANGELION

1997.3.25　 Text: Tomotaka Nagata

Do you know the TV animation called "Neon Genesis Evangelion"? This is a TV animation which had been broadcasted from Oct.1995 to Mar.1996 on a minor TV station "TV Tokyo Network" from 6:30pm to 7:00pm which was al...