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    August 3, 2007
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    Recent News

    Hitotoki Tokyo has launched in Japanese, after the successful launch of the English version. We have a few stories up there already so go have a look.
    We will also open in New York in September and are currently looking for submissions.

    I have published an article on how to make better presentations at Pecha-Kucha Night events. It is up on the AQ blog, where I work.

    The 3rd collection of our TAB T-shirts has just been released in our new online store. 5 designers have donated graphics illustrating their love of Tokyo to help us promote the city as a lively and happening place, as well as support our Non-Profit Organization team (paid staff and volunteers). The Shop has been entirely redesigned and includes a new bilingual cart system, interfacing with Paypal.

    TAB has redesigned. A slight redesign with a more modern look and a wider frame to provide us with elbow room for future growth. How do you like it?

    We have also relaunched TABlog, TAB's event review blog, with an entirely new look and feel, closer to that of an online magazine. More visual and structure on the front page allow us to promote more varied content and do so independently of its publication date.

    Finally, TAB is hiring... We are looking for a new event data editor.

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    In unrelated news, my friend Kevin has finally launched his wonderful One Life Japan eco-business. They specialize in fun, intellectually stimulating, physically satisfying, and environmentally sound educational bike tours in Japan.
    I will be joining one of his tours in the next few months.

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    November 22, 2006
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    | Art Beat | just launched! | web life |
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    Art & Design Job board on TAB

    Taking inspiration from a recent trend in the US IT industry, Tokyo Art Beat has debuted a new section: "TAB Jobs".
    TAB Jobs is a new job board that will launch on the 1st of December with job offers specially targeted at the dynamic community of creative professionals living and working in Tokyo, Japan.

    Finding the right job in our industries is a difficult endeavor, with too few tools specifically targeted at us. We want to make TAB Jobs this new tool, where companies can advertise directly to a core target of designers and where we can easily find jobs specific to our skills.

    - It is bilingual and nationwide, where offers can be posted in Japanese or English only, or both.
    - It is easy to post and browse, using the same design that has made TAB so great to use. Categories will include: Art, Print/Photo, Web/IT, Space/Product, Screen/AV, Business, Other.
    - It is be affordable: only 20,000 yen for a 30 day job listing. All proceeds support the future of TAB, a non-profit service of GADAGO NPO.

    » Visit TAB jobs

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    October 2, 2006
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    | Art Beat | T-shirts |
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    TAB News

    Last month, we released the second collection of TAB shirts. 5 new international designers and artists have again accepted to donate a design to be printed and sold to promote Tokyo and its lively art scene, and raise funds for Gadago, the Non-Profit organisation behind TAB.
    The shirts are 3800yen, including worldwide shipping.

    Party Time!
    Next Monday (national holiday) October 9th, TAB will celebrate its second anniversary at SuperDeluxe from 7pm. Come early! Like last year, t-shirt giveaways, retrospective slideshow, exclusive VJ/DJ collaborations will make this party one not to be missed. Come and meet with the team, the users, artists, venue owners, and special guests.
    For more details, visit our TAB event page: Tokyo Art Beat 2nd Year Anniversary Party!

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    August 29, 2006
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    | Art Beat | news | T-shirts |
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    TAB shirts for cheaper!

    Updated We've again lowered the price of the fantastic 5 TAB shirts to 3000yen for 2 shirts until the end of August. This is the final sale. 2 DAYS LEFT!
    Those shirts' designs were donated by five international artists/designers:
    Jonathan Barnbrook, Power Graphixx, Paul Cox, Nobory Tsubaki, Buro Destruct to help make a bit of money to support the NPO behind TAB and its team.
    This is our first line of shirts and we have about 30 shirts left.
    and, we ship international!
    Get them while they last!

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    April 14, 2005
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    | Art Beat | FAIL |
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    David Rockefeller hates art NPOs

    [NYtimes.com] David Rockefeller, chairman emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, said yesterday that he had pledged $100 million toward its endowment - the biggest cash gift ever given to the museum.

    I can think of about 10,000 NPOs that would be happy to share that money to develop their structures and work, and our Tokyo Art Beat is part of them! If you are rich, please also give a chance to smaller players that promote culture.

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    March 28, 2005
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    Organizing the world's events

    SiliconBeat: EVDB: organizing the world's events
    Interesting article echoeing most of the reasons why we started Tokyo Art Beat.

    one bit though...

    Dear already has competition in the space. Upcoming.org, created by Web programmer Andy Baio, offers a similar service, with an impressive list of venues, more than 10,000 events and growing list of features. Upcoming.org is free. EVDB intends to be a profitable business.
    "I think to really do the innovation right, you have to do it as a business'' Dear says.

    NO! Tokyo Art Beat is an NPO, and proud of it! And you wouldn't believe how it facilitates contacts and opportunities!! Our site rocks standards, and our biggest supporters come and help us on the project, users and artists send in event data; our focus is very targeted, our value is high, and in 6 months, covering only Tokyo, we have published more than 2000 events, all still available online...

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    February 1, 2005
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    | Art Beat | just launched! |
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    It lives!

    Updated. The city has just become more exciting!
    We built what we thought was most missing in our city of Tokyo: an Art and Design amplifier. We know there are hundreds of artists and venues broadcasting in the city, yet so few ways to hear about them.
    Now there is Tokyo Art Beat.

    We feel that the site will appeal to the fervent artgoers who want to check it all out and built it to also encourage the more casual visitors to turn off their TV and get out.
    By making the website fully bilingual we also wanted to broadcast past the Japanese people, past the borders of Japan and reach out to all the foreigners living in Japan or planning on visiting Japan as well as the art professionals living abroad.

    We can now all follow the beat.
    Welcome to Tokyo,
    Welcome to Tokyoartbeat.com!

    This is the fruit of 11 months of hard work. Our beta phase is only starting now. There is lots more to come and I am pretty sure you're gonna love this!
    (2004-10-02)

    Update:
    4 months already since we launched, and we have passed the bar of 1000 events published on this site.
    That's pretty impressive! Who knew Tokyo's art scene was so active!
    But we have also been busy working on a major update to the site, and here it is.

    New look: we have polished our look to make the whole site more appealing but also easier to use.

    Past events: From today, all the past events are available from the venues' individual pages; the whole 1000 of them, and counting.

    New listings: the media and area lists have been enhanced to give more information on each event and venue. You can also sort them by different criteria, giving you a deeper level of control on what you are looking for. For example, you can sort the list of events taking place in Omotesando by schedule or by media.

    And finally MyTAB: you may have noticed a new tab at the top of the window and some new icons next to event and venue names.
    This is for you! MyTAB is a collection of simple tools that let you save, classify and track events and venues throughout the site. Save upcoming or current events to your My Events list and set Email Alert reminders. Mark events that you visited as Seen and store them with other events in your My Archives list for future reference. Or save your favourite venues to your My Venues list and set up Email Alert reminders for new shows. Register today! It's free!

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