So yes, as I threatened last week, I did my PLAY two hours set at Cafe Pause this past Friday, and had a great time doing it. I didn't make a big deal out of it because this was more

exhibition, showing works from her "Lacemakers" series, at Cafe Pause, so you still have time to check it out if you haven't already.When the time came to roll up the laces again, we both sighed; it took so long; but

Felissimo in New York is hosting a Japan Brand pop-up shop during the holidays (until December 24), and it's been getting some coverage on a bunch of NYC-based blogs, including JoshSpear.com and Spoon & Tamago.Pictured above is a bicycle designed

Excite Japan has a piece up (in Japanese) that covers a new office/apartment building called The Soho, designed by the king of Tokyo retail space design, Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall) — the article is photo-heavy. Via Dezain.net.

The Comme des Garcons brand has opened a new concept store in Omotesando Hills called Trading Museum. As noted in this Wallpaper piece,"the space features eight expansive display cabinets on loan from London's Victoria & Albert Museum." Via Dezain.net.

The Rat Hole Gallery in Aoyama has recently re-opened, and TABlog posts a photo report of the first show to occupy the renovated space, "Oil," by Isa Genzken. The exhibition runs until December 27.

I barely eat chocolate, but I sure love me some Kit Kat. Unfortunately, my fave chocolate treat, Reese Peanut Cups, remains unavailable here.

During last week's PauseTalk (Vol. 35), Imre Ostmann introduced us to an art project he's been working on called "Tokyo STOP." The idea is to take a "long exposure photograph of seven people standing in a dead-end road during sunset."

exhibition at Gallery MA. The show runs until December 19.

For next month's Design Miami, Atelier Bow-Wow is designing the exhibition space — in the form of a house — for Dutch design brand Droog. Via Dezeen.

Patrick Macias checks out Japan's four big burger chains, and lives to tell the tale on CNNGo.

A look at the current lineup of boards from OPEN — all designs are by Ian Lynam.

A few months ago, Jeremy Leslie over on his MagCulture blog posted a detailed — and crowdsourced — map of London's best magazine stores. At the time I thought it was a terrific idea, and wanted to create something similar

The French Embassy in Tokyo has recently moved to new premises, and to commemorate this is holding a special exhibition at the old location. "No Man's Land" (November 26 to January 31) features a vertigo-inducing number of participants, including my

Following its debut at the recent TAB 5th anniversary party, Mammal — the band/dance unit composed of Ian Lynam and Mari Kojima — returns for another performance, this time during the upcoming PechaKucha Night in Tokyo Vol. 67, which happens

Beautiful (and simple) site design featuring the illustrative work of Yorifuji Bunpei. Via Paul Baron.

and unlike his previous complex and adult work (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, Paranoia Agent), is being described as a family-friendly film. Here's what Kon has to say about the film (taken from this interview):On the surface, it's going to

Very nice to see Matt Alt and his wife Hiroko appear on the cover of this week's issue of Metropolis, as part of a feature on small business owners — you can read the piece online here.

Information Architects (iA) has begun selling the template for its site as a proper WordPress theme, and is using a "dynamic pricing" strategy to determine the selling price — they talk more about the strategy here. It's currently selling for

This could have been a very interesting cafe project, if completed.In 2008 Japanese architect Hiroki Tanabe developed a small café house of 62 sqm — a two-story complex which has an elongated U shape. On the first floor there is