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Kagaya on CNNGo

Jean Snow — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:49:21 +0000

I have a new piece up on CNNGo, covering the “performance art” izakaya Kagaya in Shimbashi. Big thanks to my Rough Guides colleague Simon Richmond for introducing me to the spot — we had a great night of eating and drinking there a month back, which some of you may remember as a string of tweets I did.

SNOW Magazine Card

Jean Snow — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:08:16 +0000

After I tweeted that I got some business cards made for SNOW Magazine, a few people asked to see what it looks like, and so here goes. Big thanks again to my fellow GOOD Inc. compatriot Luis Mendo for the image on the front, and font suggestion for my name on the back — it’s the font off which the SNOW logo was created, Los Niches.

Surfing the Work Wave

Jean Snow — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:24:18 +0000

Where’s my PauseTalk participants list? Why isn’t there any new content on SNOW Magazine today? What the hell is up with Radio OK Fred? Life (and a cold) and work have definitely gotten in the way of things of late. No need to worry though, good things come to those who wait (and the wait won’t be long, I promise).

PauseTalk Tonight

Jean Snow — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:45:46 +0000

Just a reminder that tonight (March 8) is this month’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 38) at Cafe Pause, with a start time of 20:00. As always, the cafe is reserved from 19:30, so feel free to show up a bit early. Have been suffering through a cold this past weekend and still have a bit of a cough, so come on down and chime in, as I hope to do less talking and more listening tonight.

Weekend Reading on SNOW

Jean Snow — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:01:13 +0000

Looking for something to read this weekend? You could definitely do worse than catching up on this week’s new articles on SNOW Magazine — yes, despite my trip to Boston, I kept updates to the site timely. I don’t usually post anything during the weekend, but I’ve just added the first column by Sophie Knight, “My Yamanote Romance,” a long essay on a cycling tour of the famous train line.

To stay up to date, subscribe to the RSS feed, or follow the magazine on Twitter or Facebook.

Top 10 iPad Travel Apps We Want

Jean Snow — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:42:38 +0000

I have a new piece up on CNNGo — “Wanted: The top 10 ultimate travel apps for iPad.” I think the title says it all.

PechaKucha Control Center

Jean Snow — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:38:47 +0000

Here I am, acting all serious and shit at the “control center” this past Saturday for the big “Global PechaKucha Night for Haiti” — in the foreground you see the back of the head of Mark Dytham, and my PechaKucha colleague Tomoko. The photo is courtesy of Arvin Panwar — more photos from that night here.

Beantown

Jean Snow — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:53:24 +0000

Where have I been? Currently in Boston — a sort of last-minute research trip for my wife, with me along for the ride. This came off the heels of a rather hectic month of preparations for the “PechaKucha for Haiti” event that was held this past Saturday. Still been busy here, mostly working from the hotel room, mixed with the worst case of jetlag I’ve ever experienced I think (which has been good in terms of catching up on Olympic coverage in the middle of the night). Oh well.

Will be back in Tokyo on Monday, which was a bit too tight for a regular PauseTalk edition (first Monday), which explains why it was pushed back a week — see all you PauseTalkers on the 8th!

PechaKucha for Haiti

Jean Snow — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:50:55 +0000

Just a note to let everyone know about the global “PechaKucha for Haiti” event happening today. You’ll be able to watch a live stream of the entire thing from the front page of the PechaKucha website. There are also local events happening around the world — the Tokyo one is at SuperDeluxe, doors open at 16:20, and the entire global event kicks off at 17:00.

SNOW Magazine Update

Jean Snow — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:31:17 +0000

Tokyo Fun Party returns to the event scene next month with the launch a new party series called HARD.

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Time again for a round-up of recent articles to appear on SNOW Magazine, and also to welcome Alastair Townsend (BAKOKO) as a new contributor to the site — I’m now posting the terrific “A Few Things” series of posts he’s been doing on his blog, about contrasting housing-related issues between Japan and the West.

I’ll be debuting a few new columns this week too — expect Spoon & Tamago’s Johnny Strategy first piece to go up later today. And here’s a reminder that you can subscribe to an RSS feed, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Weekend Reading from SNOW

Jean Snow — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:38:56 +0000

Here’s another round-up of the last few days of articles to appear on SNOW Magazine. First I’d like to highlight the three guest columns that appeared this week: Bianca Beuttel returns to the package design series she used to contribute to PingMag (starting with Xylish gum packaging), Audrey Fondecave provides a second column to make sure everyone knows about Abake and their open studio sessions, and we ended the week with Hiyoko Imai’s first contribution in what she’s calling her “SNOW Characters” series.

Below, the news items from the last few days. Here’s also a reminder that you can subscribe to the site’s RSS feed, follow on Twitter, and become a fan on Facebook.

PauseTalk in March

Jean Snow — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:27:59 +0000

Oh, don’t you just love these PauseTalk updates? So after having to cancel this month’s edition I said that it would be back in March, but unfortunately, again, it won’t happen on the first Monday (which would be March 1) because it looks like I’ll be in China at the end of this month and not back in time. BUT, this just means that it will be happening the following Monday, March 8. So circle your calendar, and see you then!

Latest on SNOW

Jean Snow — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:45:53 +0000

So what’s the latest on SNOW? I guess two new developments art that I added a dedicated Twitter feed, and also created a Facebook fan page. The Twitter feed is mostly just automated with new articles from the site — because some people actually prefer that over RSS feeds these days — but I do keep an eye on it, and will reply to questions and comments. The Facebook page is just another way of putting the site out there, and should be a good way of informing members of SNOW-related events as they happen.

Regular content updates have also continued over the past week, with a few new guest columns and my regular news items. Here’s a list of what you may have missed over the past few days.

Arcade Mania Gets 3rd Printing

Jean Snow — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:49:33 +0000

Some very good news: Arcade Mania is getting a 3rd print run! Huge thanks to everyone who has picked up the book so far — hoping you’ve enjoyed it — and here’s an invitation to everyone who hasn’t done so yet. The book is available in bookstores, but of course on Amazons worldwide too (Amazon US, Amazon Japan).

Twittering Kyoto

Jean Snow — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:53:42 +0000

If you follow my Twitter feed, then you may have noticed all of the tweeting I was doing while in Kyoto this past weekend, and more importantly, adding the @hitotoki tag to all of those tweets. The reason is that I’m currently helping with the beta testing of the soon-to-relaunch Hitotoki, and as you can see, it now revolves around a strong Twitter component. I’ll just leave it at that for now, but if you want to be alerted when the site relaunches, you can sign up on the site, and follow them on Twitter as well.