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Dustin moving to L.A.

Posted on 05.02.18 under dublab, Dustin Wong, Dustin Wong

Dustin will be setting up shop in Los Angeles from May 8 after his show at the Google Campus.

Check him out on Dublab as a guest when he was in L.A. apartment shopping last month and as the host of his own program.

Live @ Fu-chi-Ku-chi

Posted on 01.31.17 under Dustin Wong, Dustin Wong, fu-chi-ku-chi, Takako Minekawa

Live in Shimokitazawa: Dustin Wong, Takako Minekawa, and opening for them, Otake Kohan.

Julian and Victoire enjoyed the show and Georges (still in vitro) danced the night away!

Otake Kohan

Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa’s 3rd album, “Are Euphoria,” will be out in Japan on April 5. It’s their first album in 3 years and the very first from 7e.p. Check out the first cut from the album at https://7ep.net/item/epcd099/

Keiichi Suzuki celebrates 45 years

Posted on 12.20.15 under Dustin Wong, Dustin Wong, Keiichi Suzuki

Keiichi Suzuki has been performing professionally since 1970. He played at the Melpark Tokyo with 30 musicians he’s played with over his career — and Dustin Wong — for his new songs. It was a great honor and Dustin played great!

The show will be televised on BS Fuji sometime in 2016. For some reason, BS Asahi sent flowers.

Dustin visited us (Junko, Takako, and me) during intermission.

Didn’t take a photo of Dustin playing — we had guest passes and I didn’t want to be a bad guest. However, Keiichi did say at this moment, it was okay to take photos.

Saturday Night in Tokyo

Posted on 11.29.15 under Dustin Wong, Junko Wong, Mamoru Sato, Nakano, Takako Minekawa, Tokyo, Uncategorized

It started in Nakano, a place known for Nakano Broadway, a mecca (wait, is that still a positive description?) for Otaku with its vinyl figures, manga, anime cells, maid bars, maid costumes, and all that good stuff.

Nakano Sun Plaza reminds me of the Tyrell Corporation in Blade Runner.

Not nearly as majestic, though — and where are the flying cars? It’s almost 2019…

We had dinner with Jessie, the daughter of my mentor, Mamoru Sato, a sculptor professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa that advised me to become an art major. This was one of the biggest turning points of my life. We babysat Jessie and Dustin together — they were born just a couple of months apart.

I worked on Mo’s commissions throughout the years I was a student at UH.

Mo and Kathleen Sato — perhaps before they married.
(B&W photos ©Peter T. Brown estate)

Peter Brown (1955-1981) did jump through hoops, but not the usual hoops… I took this photo with his camera, turning the tables.

Signage in “ura” Nakano. The “ura” parts of the major centers (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Harajuku, etc) can be some of the most interesting.

Then I drove Jessica to her hotel in Shibuya and Dustin and Takako back to Wakabayashi, Setagaya.

I think they used this intersection in “Fast & Furious — Tokyo Drift.” Obviously, not going to race in this part of town. There would be more than a few traffic fatalities.