Broadcasting from Tokyo

Landsploitation by Jo Guldi

Jul 21, 2009Arts

How do you channel experimental mastermind Chris Marker and higher-level mathematics at once? Transplanted from Chicago to Tokyo, astrophysicist Simon DeDeo started looking around him in the cafes of Tokyo, watching eye-...

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