I added Geotag data ( position data ) to my picture by iPhone GPS function, but it’s buggy and we were at Pacific Ocean :-) This is the exif data included the picture. ———————————————— Latitude: N 35° 39.99′ Longitude: W 139° 43.95′ Latitude Reference: N Longitude Reference: W ———————————————— Apple got simply mistake east for west. iPhone not writing Location EXIF correctly? http://geobloggers.com/archives/2008/07/10/iphone-not-writing-location-exif-correctly/

I used the BSD daemon cover to my cell phone, again :-)

” Minami-Aoyama Mame ” , Japanese traditonal sweet shop, was opened at 3 years ago on a back steet in Aoyama. An old house was renovated for the shop. But the house has gone decrepit and they decided to move the location. Mame means “bean”. Bean is one of the important food stuff for traditional Japanese foods. Good old Japanese ate rices, vegetables, beans and fishes, didn’t take meats. And they used boiled sweet beans for the sweet. They found variety of the usage of a bean. Mame was closed today at once, and they’ll move to near the old shop at this October 1st. A lot of the people […]

I showed my chair at Aoyama yet. And tomorrow, 17th June, is the party day. Don’t miss it :-) Kuroda-san reported the event, SOON@Lexington Aoyama part-1. ( Written in Japanese ) Let’s see it if you can’t come the exhibition. JDN: SOON@Lexington Aoyama part-1 Report http://www.japandesign.ne.jp/HTM/REPORT/nippon_kagu/32/index2.html

Last year, I made a chair wrapped skinny video screen. One of the difficulty is choice the screen’s material. It’s needed not only stretch properties but enough restoring properties. But more difficulty point was making effective design using the simple skinny line. http://hgc.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2007-11-05 Last week, BMW showed us the GINA Design Visionary Model. It have soft skinny designed body instead of the hard metalic material. And change the shape with organic moving. You can find that today’s BMW design concept was started from the study, GINA was made at six year’s ago. autoblog: BMW GINA Light Visionary Model revealed http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/10/bmw-gina-light-visionary-model-revealed/

My next exhibiting is in Filo di Seta MILANO brand shop at Kotto-street, Aoyama. The exhibition “SOON@Lexington Aoyama ” is produced by Sachio Hihara. It will be continued to January 2009, for 6 months. The exhibition is separated in 6 parts and change the exhibitor at each part. I’m participating the first part started at last week end. Now I’m showing two chairs, share chair 05 (the first chair) and 06 (large chair). http://hgc.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2007-11-27 The party will be at 17 June. Come on! It’s been a pleasure to join with such as famous genius designers:-) Kenichiro Oomori http://www.diana.dti.ne.jp/ken-o/e.htm Isamu Tokizono http://www.brave-design.com/ Atsushi Nogimura http://www.geocities.jp/nogimuracompany/ Sachio Hihara http://www.sachio.jp/ Filo di Seta […]

Last sunday, I took a exhibition space at GEISAI MUSEUM2. GEISAI is Japanese Art event produced by Takashi Murakami, Contemporary artist. It was expected to attract about 10 thousand visitors. The Event have no audition for the exhibiting. Any you can join the event, even pay the booth charge. The feature make it as a asian chaotic atmosphere, not looks like a gallery. My exhibits was here, Balloon Screen : Projected Video image to the inside of the layerd Balloon, by LED Light Video Projector share chair 07 : That’s same chair at last year’s Tokyo Designer’s week. But last sunday, I focused to the Video Screen function to be […]

I entered GEISAI Art Event, instead of Tokyo Designer’s Week interior exhibition. In This year, I’ll not make new chair but I make more media using things. My first GEISAI was at last sunday. ( sorry, already ended. ) And next Event GEISAI #11 willl be at september,14 . Don’t miss the next! This is Balloon Screen Test Movie. I tryed to project the video image behind the Balloon to inside. GEISAI.net http://www2.geisai.net/

In Japan, the new term begins in April. Many Japanese magazines appended a special supplement thing to get their new readers. ” Sho-gaku-ichinen-sei ” ( First grade Elementary school students ) magazine is published 277,000 copies every month. And they add a toy finger piano instrument in their magazine at the April issue. In other words, 270k children took the such as Cyber Musical Instrument, means every 4 Japanese first grade elementary school students got it!. The name is ” Anyware Finger Piano Do-Le-Mi-kun”. I got 2-units and played by hands. I practiced hard :-) WIRED geek dad: They Don’t Include These In a Box of Cheerios http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/03/they-dont-inclu.html the finger […]

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was died at yesterday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/03/19/PH2008031900908.html Our real may looks so fake for The 60’s people, And His written future was the real. wikipedia : Arthur C. Clarke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke