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 into the Japanese aesthetic.So sit back, prepare to be Festa’d at, and enjoy this week’s Dai-Cast!
Featuring: Rudy Van Os, Crystal Morey, Muckhouse, Run From Monster, Trio Magnus, Stephen Redmond, and Phil Hannaford. With music from Chi Weapon.
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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 posing for the ritual trophy photograph on the wharf you bid the charter captain good day and more often than not never see the fish again.
If it was convenient the large blue-fin will be brought to a cannery where it would be purchased for cents on the kilogram. If it was not convenient a local earth moving contractor will likely bury it in the landfill. In all likelihood little, if any, of the tuna would ever be eaten.
In 1972 an aeroplane freighted PEI bluefin tuna sold for 40 dollars per kilogram at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. This rapid change in value was a result in the globalization of trade and changes in Japanese taste since the end of World War II.
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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 ground, so that we never need to revisit the topic again.
On this particular round, we’re tackling celular phones in Japan, or Ketias. And to take the pulse of the gadget blogosphere, we’ve invited Joel Johnson of BoingBoing Gadgets to give us a geek’s view of Japanese phones from the outside world.
So sit back, and prepare to be educated at!
Hosts: Ian Horner, Jason Hill, and Joel Johnson, with Brendan Dery as “Beej”.
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