My career as a creative in Japan has afforded me the chance to meet some very luminary characters across the projects I do. Swedish architect and designer, Eero Koivisto, best known as one-third of Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR), the Stockholm-based studio he co-founded with Mårten Claesson and Ola Rune in 1995 is one such character. The few times I’ve met Eero, have all be in professional contexts; Japan has been inviting him here since the 90s where he’s both studied on scholarships and worked for some incredible clients on some awe-inspiring design, from the Sfera Building in Kyoto to the […]
Tokyo Record Style
Xuan
I became friends with somebody this year that has really captured my imagination and curiosity, if I’m honest, like nobody quite has in a long while. When I was introduced to her among a circle of brand-savvy fashionistas, in-the-know vanguards, and trendsetting designers themselves, she was wearing something like cheap slacker work dickies, classic checkered vans slip-ons, some chunky self-repaired eye-glasses, fuzzy cardigan, a funky haircut and a kelly-green watch that matched her kelly-green socks. Plus she stood tall, but with a swagger that you could hear in her confident voice. “This is Xuan, from Beijing” I was told. “Xuan, […]
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Dylan
I’m asking myself, “How does one let go of the standard conventions of a song: Intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus?” But that begs the question, “Where did the conventions of a song come from in the first place?” And then that begs the question “What was there before conventions?” I’d guess if you went all the back to the beginning, you’d start with rhythm, the heartbeat, followed by the murmur of breath, or perhaps the howl of wind, rumble of water, crack of wood. But was there harmony before humans? It seems that the Greek philosopher Aristoxenus’s “Elements […]
