Tokyo

The man behind the masking tape

In Art, Japan, Tokyo, Video on 15 November 2007 with no comments

Tokyo-based PingMag introduces the world to the art of Shuetsu Sato. He’s a guard at Tokyo’s largest train station but sometimes he constructs huge signs directing the passengers where they need to go. He makes the letters for these signs out of masking tape.
His transient tape art became so popular that film artist collective TrioFour [...]

“They’ve got our future, damn it.”

In Future, Innovation, Japan, Tokyo, Travel on 5 November 2007 with no comments

Charlie Stross, on Japan:
They’ve got our future, damn it.
They’ve got express trains that run on time and accelerate so fast they push you back into your seat like an airliner on take-off. They’ve got skyscrapers with running lights, looming out of the sodium-lit evening haze — a skyline just like the famous nighttime scene [...]

Tokyo street style

In Fashion, Photography, Tokyo on 8 October 2007 with no comments

Harajuku, a website devoted to Tokyo street fashion. It feels a little less authentic than The Sartorialist, but that might be me.