Jean Snow is Production Coordinator at Shinra Technologies, in lovely
Montreal (at Eidos Montréal/Square Enix Montréal). Before that, he
was based in Tokyo for over 15 years, where he lived and breathed
design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction
to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has
reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications,
including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review),
Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred,
Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design),
Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition,
Wired’s Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.
Since I knew I’d be away for most of the month (on a trip to my
hometown) I figured I wouldn’t be doing the annual horror marathon
I’ve been doing in October for the past few years
(2018, ...
This was originally posted to the PauseTalk website. PauseTalk Vol.
92 took place on Thursday, October 10 at Bananafish New HQ, and we
had another great mix of participants which made for a f...
This was originally posted to the PauseTalk website. PauseTalk Vol.
91 was held on Wednesday, August 28 at Garden Books, and it was a
wonderful session. First off, it was the biggest group we’...
I’ve been bad at sharing updates here and I know I need to change
that, but it doesn’t mean that I’m not as active as always with
PechaKucha Nights and PauseTalks, with a few sessions of bo...
I just finished my 1984 movie marathon (following 1967, 1968, 1977,
1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990,
1991, 1992, and 1993), and it does feel like the proper end ...
It’s been a while since my last update, I know, but things keep on
keeping. On the PechaKucha Night side of things, since April we held
events both in May (Vol. 36, themed on “gaming”) and ...
One of the interesting things that has happened since my return to
Asia is the return of PauseTalk. As I wrote in detail in this post,
when I left Tokyo back in 2015 I also decided to put an end ...
For a while now I’ve been thinking about what I would like to use
this site for, and I now know what I’ll be doing. As is proclaimed
in the tagline I’ve been using for a few years now, I’...
I overshot the end of 2023, but I finally finished my movie marathon
for 1993 (following 1967, 1968, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983,
1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992). There...
I just realized the other day that I had completely forgotten to put
up a post once I finished my annual horror movie marathon this past
October (here’s the X thread to prove it), and so here g...
