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2013 archives

The Day After the Comma

24 May 2013
For the past six weeks I’ve been gently nudging up my time-zone count to reach UCT+9, Tokyo Standard Time. Yesterday was a comma in six …
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Urban Geometry: The Mental Curb

24 May 2013

Main. Stream.

24 May 2013

Road Line

24 May 2013
246 from Loftwork. It takes a few years to come to terms with a motorway running through the heart of the city, omnipresent lay lines …
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Holding a Mirror up to the Outsider

24 May 2013
Kinda sweet when the Shibuya skatepark bans the dinky skateboards that are for sale by all-and-sundry shops in Harajuku these days. What elements of (now …
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Passive Aggressive Offerings

Not entirely sure this is intentional or not: Tokyo cafe offers free wifi to it’s customers, but then makes the login and password so …
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Delaying the Onset of Ageing

How important is maintaining product newness? And what are the strategies that consumers adopt to keep the product feeling fresh? Some Chinese iPhone users are refraining …
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Nurture

Storied, Travelled, Brands

10 May 2013
In: Baalbek, Cultural Norms
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Beat up Mercedes are to Lebanon what beat up Corollas are to Afghanistan. That’s stories being written.
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Tailor Interface

10 May 2013
In: Cultural Norms, Little India
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Clothes for on the road/skies/trials becoming nicely worn & patched.
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