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See Kurt Become a Beautiful Girl

Posted in Japan, Podcast, Video, tagged , , , , on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Blogger Lisa Katayama took Kurt to Tokyo’s girl haven: the sticker picture booth.

You can download the video here.

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She looks like an axelotl?

Posted in Japan, Visual Art, tagged , , , on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today I joined Lisa Katayama for her interview with Erina Matsui, a 24-year-old artist who’s already gotten the attention of Takashi Murakami and other art world big-wigs. Erina paints playful and surrealistic self-portraits, which she says should make people laugh. So as we walked into the Yamamoto Gendai galley, I have to say I was [...]

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Kawaii Kurt

Posted in Japan, tagged , , , , , , on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The motto of a fictional character of mine was All Cliches Are True. As I was reminded twice, spectacularly, during my first full day in Tokyo.
Of course I knew about the (cliche of the) Japanese schoolgirl subculture, and its devotion to cuteness, uniformity, pinkness, intense girl-to-girl friendliness, technology, and so on. But my visit yesterday [...]

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