I wasn't sure yet when we had PauseTalk Vol. 33 earlier this month, but I've finally decided that this August will be a skip month for PauseTalk — turnout tends to be lower in August because of the summer holidays.

I've always been a fan of the traditional Kokeshi wooden dolls, but I think I may like the modern reinterpretations from the "Kokeshi: From Folk Art to Art Toy" exhibition in LA even more. Cool Hunting interviews the curator of

Graniph is doing another series of tees based on master typographers — the first was Emil Ruder — this time inspired by the works of Josef Muller-Brockmann. Dezeen is running a contest where you can win all six, with all

which is his take on the NaniBird form factor meeting up with the original GameBoy. James — a fellow PauseTalker — is a Tokyo-based game developer, and runs the independent Score Studios.

If you're a regular reader of Néojaponisme, then you're probably already familiar with Ian's series of found photography which he's been releasing under the "Meeting Modernity" banner (since it "documents Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in

My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Isamu Noguchi's AKARI lights, Tidy's Swippy broom and dustpan, and the "Japan Design in Milano Salone 2009 exhibition.

by Suppose Design Office.

SoccerBoy's first "official" mixtape, available only from HMV in Japan (comes out August 1).

event, held last week. Hope I can attend the next one in September.

TABlog covers the zine scene, and also interviews Keisuke Narita, owner of the Irregular Rhythm Asylum "radical info-shop" in Shinjuku.

I am very, very tempted by this: Bandai's Jibun Damashii, a made-to-order figure that uses a photo you send for the face, at a cost of 13,650 yen. It was shown at last week's International Tokyo Toy Show. Via Japan

As a follow-up to JJ's "Second Life and the Future of the Music Industry" exhibition from earlier this year, he's put together a site that looks at what was covered in the show. He also wrote a piece on the

Josh is an architectural photographer I met earlier this year when he attended an edition of PauseTalk.

Paul Snowden has produced a rather nice tee for Minimal Tokyo as part of his "Wasted German Youth" series. Wish I could have attended Ivan's event last week at the Vitamin Water event space in Harajuku.

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There are more women than men but that does not mean that a woman should just accept the first man who appears to her. There is still the need to look for what you can conveniently call your ideal man.

There is a saying, "slow and steady wins the race." But these days no one seems to have much time to be slow on things, especially when it comes to problems