MONOCHROME TOKYO
by joostay
Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: b&w, black and white, blog, CREATIVE, CREATIVITY, japan, monochrome, photographer, photography, photos, teaching, tokyo
Monthly Archives: February 2014
IKIMASHO! YOUTUBE SESSIONS: SUBMERSE
by joostay
The esteemed beatmaker talks skating, video games and his never-ending love for Japan. With a distinct sound that traverses beats, instrumental hip-hop and electronica, Rob Orme – aka submerse – has risen to become one of the heavy hitters on the Japanese electronic music scene. Amidst a plenitude of productions, he has seen support emerge from influential media titans such as Pitchfork, FACT Magazine, XLR8R, BBC and has played prestigious events such as SonarSound Tokyo, Low End Theory and Boiler Room. Currently back in […]
Categories: Art Music & Culture, YOUTUBE SESSIONS • Tags: beats, blog, electronica, hip hip, ikimasho, japan, music, red bull music academy tokyo, rmba tokyo, rob orme, submerse, tokyo, youtube sessions
Ueno Zoo
by joostay
Back when I was 15 I skipped school for the day and went to Ueno Zoo. I was living in Tawaramachi at the time, not too far from Kappabashi. I remember waking up and just not wanting to go. There was no real reason for it, I guess I was just being lazy. My parents had just started making me go to juku, which meant that once my regular school finished I had to go all the way to Suidobashi […]
Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: japan, short story, tokyo, ueno zoo
IKIMASHO! YOUTUBE SESSIONS: VENETIAN SNARES
by joostay
Drum solos, Kamen Rider & Oprah peeing. Inside the brain of Venetian Snares. With Red Bull Music Academy coming to Tokyo this year I thought it would be fun to showcase some of my favourite electronic musicians right here on Ikimasho! – producers who are set to come to Japan, or who have played here in the past. The format is simple: each artist sends me 10 YouTube links about the stuff they love, be it music, inspirations, whatever… First […]
Categories: Art Music & Culture, YOUTUBE SESSIONS • Tags: breakcore, electronic music, electronica, idm, japan, planet mu, taico club, tokyo, venetian snares
Oni wa soto! Setsubun at a Japanese kindergarten.
by joostay
“The children were crying with fear. It was a success.” These were the first words my coworker said to me as we took off our crudely made demon masks in a storeroom hidden in the back of the school. Half an hour before we had silently descended upon the kindergarten: bursting into classrooms and purposely trying to frighten the kids. This is Setsubun, a festival held the day before the beginning of Spring in Japan. It’s accompanied by a special ritual […]
Categories: Kindergarten Life • Tags: demons, festival, japan, kindergarten, matsuri, ogres, oni, spring, teaching, tefl, tokyo, travel
Ongakukai / Music Festival at Japanese Kindergarten
by joostay
I can’t remember what I was doing at school when I was five years old but it sure as hell wasn’t as good as this. Friday was the annual ongakukai, or music festival, at my school. Every class had to perform a piece – and just like for the happyokai (performance festival) and undokai (sports festival) the kids practiced every single day for about a month. On the day itself, the homeroom teachers were a mess of nerves, but the […]
Categories: Kindergarten Life • Tags: asia, japan, kindergarten, music festival, ongakukai, TEACHER, teaching, tefl, tokyo
