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Kimiko Mitani Woo
Kimiko Mitani Woo is an independent art curator and producer based in Tokyo and Shanghai. After a successful career as an account executive for Nike, she followed her dream working with Asian art and design. In 2009 she established the MW Company, dedicated to developing the art scene in East ...
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A Light from Los Angeles in Tokyo
Our good friends over in LA - the dublab crew - led by AV creative torchbearer Mark "Frosty" McNeill have embarked on an inspiring new journey set to bridge Los Angeles and Tokyo. Under the tagline - as a non-profit web radio collective devoted to the growth of positive music, ...
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Kinfolk Diary
Formed in 2008, Kinfolk Studios in Brooklyn and Kinfolk Lounge in Nakameguro are the venues attached to the Kinfolk Bicycle company. Sourcing the fixed gear bikes of obsessives' dreams the four founding friends also run two awesome spots that attract an eclectic crowd. The Tokyo installation in Nakameguro ...
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Daddy Kev: Low End Theory Japan
Following the 2012 Japan tour by the Los Angeles sonic innovators and leading lights of the future electronic hip hop global community, Low End Theory - the stalwart night's residents Nobody, D-Styles, Nocando and Daddy Kev will be joined by Nosaj Thing and Samiyam for what I'm sure ...
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Takeshi Suga
The young Japanese-born, Glasgow-based photographer Takeshi Suga is back in Japan for his second solo exhibition at the Lomography Store. Music and cinema are his main sources of inspiration and so it seams natural that his first steps into photography were in the music scene of Glasgow. The best advice he got so ...
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Audrey Fondecave Tsujimura: Mouchoirs
Pass The Baton is a little gem nestled two floors below ground in one of Tokyo’s busiest shopping districts, Omotesando. A veritable cabinet de curiosité offering an eclectic selection of vintage goods, ranging from designer sunglasses to a giant stuffed polar bear. Beginning last weekend, Pass The Baton invited Audrey ...
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House of Billiam
Thomas Bird was born in Nottingham as the second of four, all boys. He studied Philosophy at York, liked the studying, didn't much like York or university. Did a load of random jobs, taught himself to sew, learnt pattern making from a book and in 2009 kick started h ...
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Daisuke Konno: Bring On The Noise
The visionary designer Daisuke Konno spoke city insight with us and also about the sensual idea behind the concept of his fashion brand. When we talked to him, Daisuke was in the middle of closing the new collection "Kraut". Daiskue even worked with the German fabric maker Westfalenstoffe. We ...
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Tokyo On Air: Goth-Trad
Tokyo's crowned prince of forward thinking and progressive dubstep Goth-Trad is the artist that Kode9 describes as: “A one-man army mutating the UK hardcore continuum in Japan.” Earlier this month on DEEP MEDi Musik, Goth-Trad aka Takeaki Maruyama released his new album entitled, "New Epoch" led by an ...
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Michito Goto
On March 4, Michito Goto celebrates his first photo exhibition "Good Days" at the Taiyo Studio in Gakugei Daigaku. After four years of experience as an assistant, Goto is ready to launch his own show. When he decided to dive into photography, he had no knowledge or skills ...
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The Container
A hairdressers may not be the first place you might expect to find an art gallery, but The Container in Nakameguro embraces this very dichotomy. A metal shipping container in the corner of Bross Hair Salon has for the last year been putting on some challenging and provocative shows. With ...
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Neon O'Clock Works Theatre
Filmmaker and photographer Sayaka Maruyama and hair and head prop artist Tomihiro Kono have been working together since 2004 and although they both have become established in their individual careers, their collaboration continues. Neon O'Clock Works is the name of their creative unit. The experimental duo's ...
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Spine TV's Tokyo city series
Spine TV have always been at the forefront of exploring the most interesting subcultures across the globe and their Tokyo City Series is no different. Spine TV's Leo Leigh and Leo Marks produced and directed mini-series on Tokyo with a diverse and unique viewpoint on the cultural underbelly and niche reporting. In ...
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Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod's Art Space Tokyo
Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod scoured the city for months, aiming not only to showcase great galleries and museums, but also those that are architecturally impressive and/or historically important too in the book "Art Space Tokyo". The international art world is basically defined by white cube-style galleries, so the two wanted to ...
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Katsura Murata: Zekuu
Aichi-born director Katsura Murata studied film at the London Film School and the short film "ZEKUU" was her final project. The film was screened at nine international film festivals including the Slamdance Film Festival. The short will be shown for the first time in Japan at the Social Cinema Festival 2012 in ...