Our latest project, hitotoki.org — a joint production with the very talented AQ in Tokyo — is now live. Feast your eyes on it.

I watched from Seattle as Craig worked with the folks at AQ to put together this very ambitious site. I helped with the editing and the occasional encouraging word, but this is very much a project born in Co-Lab in downtown Tokyo, where Chin Music has a desk.

My thoughts on this project over the last few weeks went from excitement about the idea to skepticism as I worried that the demands we were making on writers were too obscure to growing confidence as more excellent submissions rolled in to elation this morning when I went online and surfed through the site. Yes, I'm biased, this being partly a Chin Music production, but since I've only been tangentially involved in the project, what the hell: I think this is the sort of site the Internet is screaming for. It blends interesting text and visuals with a format and a structure that is suited to the Net. In other words, you can't pull this off in print.

Check it out. And if you've been to Tokyo, send us a submission. I'm sure we'll hear more from Craig about this after he recovers from the several sleepless nights he's endured leading up to the launch.