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Nobi — Nobuyuki Hayashi/林信行

@nobi.bsky.social

Seeker of cultural value worth inheriting toward 22nd Century. Known as tech, design, and contemporary art journalist. I don’t use notifications, I use my intuitive pace to deal with all technologies. https://bento.me/nobi lang: 🇯🇵🇬🇧🇪🇸

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Nada más ciberpunk que tener a tu roboperro encadenado en la azotea

24.02.2025 17:59 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Dynamics of a Dog on a Leash
by Takyuki Todo — an artist who excels in leaping the uncanny valley and create robots that are so alive.
#ENCOUNTER2025

23.02.2025 11:29 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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a robot dog that keeps trying to attack you — an artwork by Takayuki Todo

Dynamics of a Dog on a Leash
@toodooda
#ENCOUNTERS2025

ends tomorrow

23.02.2025 11:28 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I'm glad some people are writing about it at least. I write occasionally on my blog. Not sure there is another platform for these ideas. Hopefully a bigger collective movement emerges.

20.02.2025 02:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you. This is very thought provoking. Especially the ideas about dependencies and general purpose tools. BTW, Jaron Lanier and Cal Newport come to minds as people who've also written thoughtful and informed critiques of tech.

19.02.2025 05:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for the feedback and info about Cal Newport.
I’ll look into it. I wonder where would be a good place to discuss these and deepen our understanding of human-tech relation.

19.02.2025 11:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The True Cost of Convenience: When Digital Efficiency Breeds Human Fragility We must have more serious discussions about the ideal relationship between humans and technology.

New post on Medium:

Having spent decades in technology journalism, I've watched our relationship with digital tools shift dramatically. What started with Steve Jobs' vision of computers as bicycles for the mind has evolved into something far more complex—and concerning.

medium.com/@nobi/the-tr...

19.02.2025 05:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Craftsman Newsletter A free monthly newsletter highlighting the work from craftspeople from around the world with a particular focus on Japan.

In general I’m a slow writer but today I finished the next issue of The Craftsman Newsletter. Out tomorrow: thecraftsman.email

11.02.2025 18:42 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Just published
“Architecture of Absence: Sony’s Radical Reimagining of Urban Space in Ginza “
my take on @GinzaSonyPark opening on Medium:

link.medium.com/4qefHwVNpQb

24.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Liberating Design: How Tamae Hirokawa Transcended Western Fashion to Design Everything from the Exhibition Catalogue Essay of Tamae Hirokawa’s Solo Exhibition

Liberating Design: How Tamae Hirokawa Transcended Western Fashion to Design Everything

medium.com/@nobi/libera...

15.01.2025 07:15 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Rebuild.fm の Craig Mod さんをゲスト回

07.02.2025 10:11 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The pleasure is mine.
I actually wanted to write about how you see and use digital technology today, but Premium Japan wanted to keep the article concise; allow me to write that bit on somewhere else😉

08.02.2025 05:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really grateful for the shout-out to Yamaguchi-ken! My mom's from Tokuyama (now called Shunan). It's beautiful there.

08.02.2025 03:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for making the time to talk, Nobi

08.02.2025 03:09 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

盛岡、山口、富山を世界的に有名にしたクレイグ・モドのインタビュー
日本語版はこちらです:

www.premium-j.jp/portraits/20...

07.02.2025 08:51 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2
Author Craig Modo reexamines the nature of travel and the potential of Japan as a tourism-based nation - Premium Japan In January 2023, The New York Times, one of America's leading newspapers, ranked Morioka second as a must-visit place this year. The recommendation was made by Craig Modo, a writer living in Japan. We...

I had the chance to sit down for a deep and direct interview with @CraigMod.com —my friend of over 20 years and the man who put Morioka, Yamaguchi, and Toyama on the global map.

Craig offered some profound insights.

www.premium-j.jp/en/portraits...

07.02.2025 08:50 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 2
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アップルやNVIDIAがトランプに擦り寄らない事情 2025年1月20日に行われたドナルド・トランプ大統領2期目の就任式は、アメリカのテクノロジー産業の現状を象徴する光景となった。トランプ家のすぐ後ろという閣僚候補よりもいい特別な場所に陣取ったのは、テスラの…

アップルやNVIDIAがトランプに擦り寄らない事情 擦り寄る企業のビジネスモデルとの違いは何か
toyokeizai.net/articles/-/8...

>アマゾンは、100万ドルの寄付に加え、就任式イベントのプライムビデオでの中継も「寄付」という形で提供。アマゾンとメタの両社はトランプが大統領令でLGBT施策を撤回すると、それに呼応するように自社の多様性プログラムの廃止を発表し、露骨に政権寄りの姿勢を示している。

25.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Exhibition ends this Sunday!

En to Sen | The Journey of Kyogen

By Kyogen (= #ShoryuHatoba & #YohoHatoba )

The traditional Japanese art of creating family crests has been transformed into digital artworks, spanning a wide range of applications from box of tissue paper to Ferrari logos.

10.01.2025 09:31 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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グーグルが京都で町屋造りのコンセプトハウス「Google Pixel: Home of Design」を期間限定で営業中。グーグルの2つの展示を通して行った「デザイン」アピールとは?|Pen Online 京都にある町屋造りのコンセプトハウス「Google Pixel: Home of Design」。国立新美術館に展示されたグーグル製品カラーで彩られたテーブル「(Google Pixel 9は)これま...

Just published a Japanese article about Google’s installation in Kyoto:
今月末まで京都で見ることができるGoogle Pixel: Home of Designの記事が @Pen_magazine で公開されました。

グーグルが京都で町屋造りのコンセプトハウス「Google Pixel: Home of Design」を期間限定で営業中。グーグルの2つの展示を通して行った「デザイン」アピールとは?|Pen Online
www.pen-online.jp/article/0179...

24.01.2025 12:31 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Just published
“Architecture of Absence: Sony’s Radical Reimagining of Urban Space in Ginza “
my take on @GinzaSonyPark opening on Medium:

link.medium.com/4qefHwVNpQb

24.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Liberating Design: How Tamae Hirokawa Transcended Western Fashion to Design Everything from the Exhibition Catalogue Essay of Tamae Hirokawa’s Solo Exhibition

Liberating Design: How Tamae Hirokawa Transcended Western Fashion to Design Everything

medium.com/@nobi/libera...

15.01.2025 07:15 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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even #ShoheiOhtani
(Both pitching & hitting)

10.01.2025 09:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exhibition ends this Sunday!

En to Sen | The Journey of Kyogen

By Kyogen (= #ShoryuHatoba & #YohoHatoba )

The traditional Japanese art of creating family crests has been transformed into digital artworks, spanning a wide range of applications from box of tissue paper to Ferrari logos.

10.01.2025 09:31 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Read “The Background of My Expansion from Technology to Design, Art, and Traditional Culture“ by Nobuyuki Hayashi林信行 on Medium:
medium.com/@nobi/the-ba...

08.01.2025 06:31 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Smoke inhalation — even for seconds - can impair consciousness.

To anyone in the immediate vicinity of this unprecedented fire in the nations most populous county, urgently heed the evacuation orders NOW.

Smoke is as dangerous as the flames behind them.

08.01.2025 04:34 — 👍 10966    🔁 3040    💬 248    📌 165
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Read “The Background of My Expansion from Technology to Design, Art, and Traditional Culture“ by Nobuyuki Hayashi林信行 on Medium:
medium.com/@nobi/the-ba...

08.01.2025 06:31 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Seeing Sound, Hearing Time: A Major Solo Exhibition of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Installation Works - Premium Japan A major solo exhibition of his installation works, "Seeing Sound, Hearing Time," is being held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo until March 2025, 3. Journalist Nobuyuki Hayashi introduces the ...

Here’s my report on the Ryuichi Sakamoto Exhibition on Premium Japan:

Seeing Sound, Hearing Time: A Major Solo Exhibition of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Installation Works

www.premium-j.jp/en/premiumsa...

07.01.2025 13:50 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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For the past several years, I have been haunted by the idea that we are in the midst of a new era of Japonisme.
I call this latest movement “Japonisme 3”.

medium.com/@nobi/japoni...

30.12.2024 11:10 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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As the first embers of 2025 crackle and glow, we honour the timeless tradition of renewal. Here’s to letting the ashes of yesterday nourish the fire of tomorrow.

31.12.2024 16:31 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy New Year! 2025
The year that marks the conclusion of the first quarter of the 21st century.

31.12.2024 15:05 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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