This is part of the lifestream of Paul Baron, co-founder of Tokyo Art Beat, AQ, Hitotoki.
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If you haven't visited our project hitotoki.org recently, then now is the time.
The small literary website building an emotional map of Tokyo is growing faster than we ever imagined, with London and NYC launched recently and the impending launch of 3 cities DC, Paris (in French and English) and Shanghai!
If you haven't submitted a story, now is the time!
Looking forward to reading you soon online.
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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The site is a little non-commercial project we put together in a few weeks as a joint effort between AQ (little design studio where I work) and Chin Music (Tokyo/Seattle-based publishers).
The site will attempt to record and broadcast short location-based narratives written by people that have visited Tokyo or live in the city.
The stories, like the title indicates (hitotoki in Japanese means a single moment), should capture those special moments one encounters when living in Tokyo where it just feels good/weird/tough to be here, and must be tied to a specific location in the city.
Hopefully, the memories emerging from the site will allow people to enjoy a more intimate and deeper view of the town, its people, and the authors profiled alongside the stories.
Updated: We have launched!! hitotoki.org
We are looking for sumissions for our May 1st launch, and so if you read this site and are in my address book, know that I will probably persecute you until you finally give in and share one of your stories with the audience of hitotoki.
You have been warned! ;-)
A good place to start is to download our submission file which contains many more details on what we are looking for and as the word-count stands attractively low at between 200-500 words, I am expecting to receive quite a few slices of location-based memories from you.
Let us also know what you think of the stone-carved logo. For the katakana readers among us, notice the fat ヒ ト ト キ shapes used as backgrounds for the roman hi to to ki letters.
One last thing, please let anybody you think could be interested in participating know about this site and don't hesitate to bookmark the site in del.icio.us and other sites or introduce it on your blog. tah!
See you on May 1st.
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