hi joi please share my blog and please put a link on your page...let me know and i can link to yours also.sinc rjkiss

That's an outstanding site. Since artistic communities in my experience often lack a "central" point of community (seeing as artists are often individualistic and that doesn't make for easy community building). Nice to see a site that aggregates all the tiny art communities in a city.

Hi Joi,

At SuperNova 2005 last week in San Francisco, a number of people suggested I reach out to you. Could we touch base?

John Maloney
IM/Skype: jheuristic
ID: http://public.2idi.com/=john.maloney

Meanwhile, this is a great destination site. It is in Japanese and English.

The Web community 'World Event Village' has impressed me. It is a global village community and broadband media that allows you "to experience the world."

Link -- http://www.worldeventvillage.com/

Worldwide music, arts, dance, community, fairs, commons and festivals are featured.

Sample: http://www.worldeventvillage.com/wev/en/tour/meta/sample_H.asx

Good headphones and/or speakers are essential.

Register: http://www.worldeventvillage.com/wev/en/mem_reg_lang_en.php3

The high-fidelity music and video content is amazing, really incredible. (Note: there is a modest monthly subscription fee.)

Note: the WEV community sponsors 'Field Producers' too. I don't know the specific terms for content, but have heard they will loan equipment and provide support.

http://www.worldeventvillage.com/wev/en/special/fp/mem_fpr_come_en.php3

For budding and experienced videographers, journalists and photographers worldwide, WEV is a great venue.

Thanks for the heads up. Site has a flickr colour scheme and looks like it was written in Ruby. was it?

philipkd: no, no Ruby, and I am curious to know what made you think so. The color scheme similarity with flickr (and quite a few other sites, in fact) is a coincidence. Cheers.

To me, TAB appears just like a database combined with a slick shell. All the necessary functions are there, such as user-management and various listing-capabilities (by-price, by-region, by-venue, etc.), without too much added complexity. These functions are also pulled off with a consistent design and without bugs. So I imagine it was built quickly using solid existing packages. A very ruby-on-rails job.

TAB also has all the proper roll-overs and CSS margins of a savvy web designer, someone familiar with flickr and rails.

BTW, I used TAB two weeks ago -- very useful. Saw three exhibits in Ginza: the ADC one, Guy Jasper's, and Shintaro's (my fav). I mentioned TAB to the lady co-owner of the venue for Guy Jasper.

they wrote really cool articles. I wonder if they will keep the job.