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Ladies and Gentlemen…

Posted in Japan, Literary, Video, tagged , , , , , , on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Greetings from Studio 360’s home base in New York City!
After weeks of listening to tape and mixing (and remixing) our stories, we’re proud to post the first sounds of our trip to Japan. On this past week’s show, we broadcast an interview with the writer Pico Iyer in Nara Park (remember Bad Bambi?), a [...]

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Design for the (Japanese) World: Vol. 2

Posted in Design, Japan, Video, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

More great design solutions that I wish we could bring back with us to the US:

ITEM 1:
Say you’re shopping in a department store with your toddler and you need to go to the bathroom… where do you stick the kid? TOTO, maker of the world’s most amazing (and complex) toilets offers another great product, [...]

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Meanwhile, back at Studio 360…

Posted in Japan, Video, tagged , on November 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Kurt Andersen and most of the staff are in Japan. Who’s minding the shop?

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Revenge of the nerds

Posted in Dance, Japan, Video, tagged , , , , , , on November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Holy Geekdom! The DENPA party Sunday night was euphoric. Two floors full of happy nerds, dressed up as their favorite manga/anime/computer game characters, dancing to extremely loud computer game music, drinking, smoking and taking pictures of each other in studied poses. Takero Mimura, one of the producers of the night said that these parties [...]

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Kurt, Pico, and Bambi

Posted in Japan, Literary, Video, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday the whole team was in Nara (30 minutes by train from Kyoto) to meet with the writer Pico Iyer — we’ve turned to him several times on the show for his keen, beautifully expressed observations of life in various corners of the world. Pico first came to Japan 20 years ago — and [...]

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Street festival for drummers, breakdancers

Posted in Dance, Japan, Music, Video, tagged , , , , , , , on November 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

On the streets of Shibuya today: drum circles, drumming lessons, and breakdancing. We met a young radio reporter (Pejk spotted his DAT recorder) and he told us it’s the third annual Shibuya music festival, called Shibu-on.
Some video highlights: first, breakdancing unplugged – to hand drums, pan flute and didgeridoo. (No patchouli or [...]

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Mysterious Mountain Monk

Posted in Japan, Video, tagged , , , , on November 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

For Tokyo’s size, density, and sprawl (those last 2 things might sound contradictory, but here they’re not), it has tons of parks — big parks, that are astounding both in how carefully they’re kept, and in their ability to block out the bustling city around them. Take Yoyogi Park in Shibuya. It’s vast, [...]

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Made it!

Posted in Japan, Video, tagged , , on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After 14 hours on the plane (and nearly 2 hours on the “Limo Bus”), 360 Team Japan is officially in Tokyo. We’re staying in the heart of Shibuya, the hip and happening “ground zero for youth culture.” (so says LP, and we’re happy to confirm!) Neon, crowds, aesthetic delights overwhelm (think “Lost in Translation”), [...]

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