Archive for November, 2007
Dai-Cast Supplemental: Design Festa #26
This week on Dai-Cast we return to the Tokyo Big Sight for the 27th Tokyo Design Festa. In addition to a taste of the sensory extravaganza that is the Festa itself, we interview a number of gaijin, or foreign artists to get their take on the event, and how their work fits [Read More]
Guest Book Review – The Sushi Economy
The Sushi Economy, Globalization and the making of a modern delicacy. Sasha Issenberg (2007) Reviewed by Marc C. Bosse The year is 1970 in Prince Edward Island. After struggling for many hours you have hauled in a prize fish; a 140kg Atlantic blue-fin tuna. After [Read More]
Dai-Cast Zeta 002 – In Japanese, Keitai means Cellphone
This week, on Dai-Cast it’s “Dai Cast Zeta”, where we pick one particular topic on Japan or Japanese pop culture, and stick with it, exhaustivly expressing our opinions for your education, elucidation, emancipation, and mental emolument, to summarily beat it into the [Read More]