Nowadays, 360-degree camera has become a topic in some gadget websites. Especially Ricoh Theta S, latest model of Theta series, realized good resolution 360° pictures and long time movies easily. It&…

Recently, I went on a boat to capture a 360-degree movie. The boat was a trial of the ship transportation from Haneda Airport to Akihabara. The trial was finished. But in future, the water transportat…

Many geeks keep dream alive to capture/reproduce the everything around of us. The 1900 Paris Exposition already, there was an multi cinema projector amusement to show around view from a balloon. About…

littleBits is electrical circuit creating toy. Each function is assembled in a block module with special magnet connector, for easy electrical connection. The crispy connection feeling is fun! The fou…

Nowadays, “Fake Miniature picture” is popularized by iPhone digital filter App. But the original Fake Miniature expression was made by optically, “Tilt-Shift” Lens. The lens is…

Tokyu Toyoko-line terminal at Shibuya station was used for 89 years. 420 thousand passengers/day passed through the station. March 15, 2013, The Ground Station was replaced to underground one for conn…

Tokyo tower had been the highest tower in Japan for over fifty years. It’s not tallest now, but it still be attracted as one of the Tokyo’s landmark. Last year, the top of the post had ben…

Tokyo is one of the expensive place. Apartment rooms is so expensive, but it’s cramped and known as rabbit hutch. My room is also small. So, I ordered renovation of my room for more space and co…

Tokyo Skytree is a new broadcasting and observation tower. It’s the second tallest structure (634 m / 2,080 ft) in the world after Burj Khalifa (829.84 m), and the observation deck (450 m) is th…

I think, Red Bull seems to make an effort to allow excite things to take root in Japanese Society. For example, Air Race is not famous in Japan, but they are keeping to cary Air Racer every year, and …

NASA released their satellite view of Sendai, and I made the Animation for the comparison. This Image was captured at February 26, 2011 and March 12, 2011. You see the devastating grand erosion by the…

Tokyo Tower Bent by japan quake, and closed until confirming safe conditions is done. I believe they’ll be able to solve their problems.

Today, Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan. The game console was closely packed by a lot of the 3D and communicative ideas. 3DS have a 3D Display with stereo camera. You can take 3D pictures and see on…

Last month, I went to see H-IIB Rocket with HTV2 Launch at Tanegashima. The Launch was succeeded and HTV2 has been docked to International Space Station( ISS ). And this morning, the ISS with HTV2 fle…

January 22, 2011, H-IIB rocket and H-II Transfer Vehicle(HTV) was launched from Tanegashima Space Center. H-IIB is in 10 largest rockets and it’s capable to carry the HTV to the international sp…

When viewer watch a picture, they doesn’t only see in the picture but over the frame. The clipped picture is spread over the viewer’s mind by their imagination. But there is a person who c…

I have thought that star watching looks so hard works. It’s required to carry a heavy expensive telescope and difficult equipments, go on sleepy midnight ways to country side, and peer over a Pl…

I tried to make DOF(depth of field) Adapter and put iPhone 4 on it to defocus background images. DOF Filter is darker filter and It can’t use for a sensitive camera. But iPhone 4 have backside i…

Recently, My friends get some tablet devices, foo-Pad and bar-ndle :-) But I got cheapest electric pad, Bookie Board. The Simply Device allow Writing, and Deleting. That’s it. The device looks n…

In this spring, I got new DSLR camera allow video capture, at last. it’s available Manual video capturing in inexpensive price range. In the season, you see beautiful Sakura in Japan. and I trie…

Fractal graphic evokes a fundamental beauty in a natural shapes. Basically, simply repeated graphics make beautiful geometry. Context Free is such as the 2D geometric shapes drawing software. http://w…

VAIO P is very small size PC, but it’s good for my daily usage. The screen resolution is incredible high density, I can’t see each dot. And the horizontal resolution is higher than my MacB…

Moving Moon’s shadow taken from “Himawari” weather satellite, Today. Japan Meteorological Agency http://www.jma-net.go.jp/sat/data/web/suneclipse_observation.html

I went to see the real scale GUNDAM with Juri-san :-)

Last month, I went to two art events. One was Theo Jansen Exhibition, another was the parade by La Machine. Theo Jansen is an artist, who builds Air-powered large animal robots. He aim to make Keep-al…

Last month,My friend gave me a chance to make a sign board for their Wedding Reception. In those cases, It’s often used Calligraphy hand writting or such as the hand made art. I thought the coup…

I got new “Lensbaby” SLR Camera lens. Lensbaby’s features is here. – the center is forcused, and peripheral part is off-forcused. – tilt the lens, and you can choose forc…

Last sunday, I was on the stage at music event to played DS-10,SU-10 scratchable small sampler and Electroplankton. The event was “OTODUST 2”, for mobile musical gadget and the music. The …

D90 is new middle class Digital SLR Camera from Nikon, and it’s the first SLR to offer movie function. Most people may not understand the availability. Why record by Motion-JPEG? ( Can’t u…

KORG DS-10 is Music Creating Software for Nintendo DS. This is small and cheap environment for music creation, but – Legend synthesizer – Drum Machine – Roop Music Sequencer was incl…

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. ———̵…

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 t…

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…

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 m…

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,…

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 Eve…

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 sund…

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 stude…

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 writte…

Last week, I went to see The Sampler Battle Event at Nakano, Tokyo. A musical battle event is popular at Dj or Hip hop rap event. But I never heard about such as realtime track making battle using sam…

Last month, MIT Professor Michael Resnick came to Japan. He is the researcher at the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT. He developed legendary educational equipment to make the creative spiral proces…

happy new year :-)

When my working time, I’m wearing my Geta, woody belt sandal, for this ten years. But the belt ( called Hanao ) was in rags by the daily usage. I tryed to find “Geta Smith” to repair…

I tried to take pictures of the transformation. This is my chair, last year’s share chair 06. and the movie is here. I was tired that’s very heavy… Incidentally, the picture is share…

Blue coloured Tokyo Tower on the ealier christmas lights at Keyaki-zaka street in Roppongi Hills. That’s for WORLD DIABETES DAY. Over 100 landmarks lighted up in blue. http://www.worlddiabetesda…

This week, I showed my new transformable chair “share chair” at Zero Exhibition in Tokyo Designer’s Week. Thank your comming to my demonstration space. When you use the chair, you sh…

Last night, I enjoyed this year’s final F1 Gramd Prix. The ending was dramatic and It’s enought to be satisfied us the coming new generation. When I was watching TV, I have tried to projec…

It’s first image of latest share chair design for Tokyo Designer’s Week 2007. This year’s is stool type. The design have a lot of the problems yet, and now changing earnestly to solv…

Norifumi “Norick” Abe, Former MotoGP racer was died at public road, not in a circuit. A motorcycle race is not popular in Japan. Japanese racers is famous in Europe more than in Japan, And…

NiGHTS! NiGHTS! NiGHTS? Today, I went to Tokyo Game Show 2007 to see the Video game, NiGHTS. Original NiGHTS was released from Sega sonic team in 1996 for Sega Saturn platform. Sega Saturn had analog …

Last week, I went to see the skate boad park in Yoyogi Park. The park was sponcered by NIKE and kept for the week only. After that, I went to laten music event in the valley of Roppongi hills Building…

I got the Transformable Ball, latest Hoberman designed toy. Hoberman Designs was formed by Chuck Hoberman at 1995. And he made his name as Toy Designer by Very Expandable Sphere. http://hoberman.com/f…

I started to make this year’s my chair. And I tryed to design have an elegant round shaped one. But the elegance was incompatible with my gimmick. At last, it became a flop… I need my eleg…

but summer is coming!

TRON Project is not only for OS deveropment but thinking between User and Information tech. wikipedia: TRON Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project Original “TK1” TRON-specificat…

Last night I took Juri-san’s pictures. When you take a picture, if you light an object directly, the object got a high light and heavily shade. But I wanted to use more soft light and shade. Usu…

Basically I said, Garmin products is handy and reliable GPS Navigation Unit. The movie is CF for it, but I can’t believe why… let’s see. YouTube: Garmin Maposaurus Interview http://w…

Atemoya is a tropical fruit known as vanilla taste. Last week, I founded it at supermarket in Tokyo Midtown. It was very expencive, @$5, but I tryed. When I got it, It had bright green colour like a S…

Last Friday, I went to Fuji Speedway Circuit to watch the Super GT championship. Fiji Speedway is the site for this year’s F1 Granprix in Japan. ( Moved from Suzuka by TOYOTA’s Power ;-) A…

This week, most of the japanese peoples take public holidays. and the week is called “Golden Week”. A Lot of the peoples come to Roppongi, I wanted to take their picture. I tryed to follow…

Last week, I went to Tokyo Motor Show 2007. That’s biggest motorcycle show in Japan The picture is bimota DB5 frame and cowled. How marvelous! bimota Tesi3D Revolutionized Tesi 1d and 2d. Front …

Last Week, Tokyo Midtown was Opened. and 3 big project in roppongi was completed. ( Roppongi Hills, THE NATIONAL ART CENTER, and Midtown ) “Big Canopy”: big structure over the gate. Pool i…

Today I went to watch the Coloured Tokyo Tower. The light was placed under the tower. and lighted up from ground. My dog looked bad mood cos tired to wait me. and I went to StarBucks Coffee Roppongi, …

Last month, new national museum ( Kokuritsu-shin-bijutsu-kan) was opend at Roppongi. The archtect is Kisho Kurokawa. His thinking and talking is verly radical and unique, but you can understand his th…

I got broken LOMO SMENA 8M Camera and picked up the lenz. And I tryed to put it to my EOS SLR Camera.(focedly) that’s it! The contrast is narrow and the colour looks a little strange. Typically …

Last saturday night, I went to concert performed by Kitsune Akimoto’s band “Hz” Kitsune-san was one of the first person to adjust his CG animation to the music just in tempo used Del…

Today, I went to take a chicket sold the day of performance, But I couldn’t get It was sold out at early morning. The play was performed by The Ramens ( Ramen = Noodle ). They are stand up comed…

Velfarre Roppongi, one of the biggest Club space in Tokyo, was closed at last year end. Roppoingi is a Large Night Town area in Tokyo. After WWII, there was a big U.S. ARMY Base ( and their is small o…

This year’s Christmas was finished. But I tried to keep whole of the lighting trees near my house. I took my Digital SLR camera with fisheye lenz to took pictures and made the movie from the pic…

In this week, Krispy Kreme DOUGHNUTS coming to Tokyo ! I went to The Shop in this morning. ( opened at 7:00am. ) It’s very soft ( more than Chiffon Cake ), and very very sweeeet ! Fried hot is b…

This image was rendered as the final plan. I printed out 1/1 scale draft by the 3DCG data. Engineer used the draft as a guide for bending stainless steel pipes. The animation for explanation about the…

Today is the tokyo designer’s week ’06 last day. My chair was placed on a floor, and PSP on the stage. A few people thought the PSP was my art :-) It’s at accross from my place. you …

One month ago, I tried to find out a factory to order my designed chair (again). and at last, Only one factory accepted. Their name is TOKYUSHU GIKEN at Saitama near Tokyo. I haven’t known that …

I should inform I passed a review to exhibit my chair at Tokyo Designers Week’06 Pro Exhibition. Designer’s Association sended me the result before the deadline to pay the Without Predicta…

I already sended my design to Design Association for Tokyo Designer’s Week Exhibition 2006, I sald. Design Association said that( in their contract and guidance web page, ) they would screen app…

I started to design a chair, again. Already I sended the original design to exhibit it at Tokyo Designer’s Week . I don’t know I can exhibit it cos I couldn’t to take a enough time t…

Jun Maeda is only the professional Japanese rider for a street race. But he got injuries at most historical and dengerous street race, Manx TT, and he dies today. He sent us not only his result but th…

a happy new year! I should say thank you for all of my friend and you. I hope to keep a lot kind of the relationship as last year. in last year, not only I changed my occupation, but I made a chair pr…

the article was appeared at Kanagawa local newspaper that Akai professional M.I. was bankrupted. http://www.kanalog.jp/news/local/entry_16076.html Akai was famoused about wind instruments looks synthe…

When I was allowed to exhibit my design, I thought how to make my chair. First, I wanted to make it myself, but i didn’t have an enough skill. Next I tryed to find out an artisan people to order…

I’m challenging to write my blog in english, wow! I’m not a designer, but I wanted to try to realize my idea for a chair. I made the chair named “share chair”. and exhibited at…

Tokyo Designer’s Weekも残すところあと一日、 いよいよ今日でおしまいです。 たくさんの方にオレイスを観ていただきました。サンキュ。 イスの写�…

juriさんと会社近くのハラッパで記念写真。 会場準備も着々みたいだ。 右上が絵画館。その前が会場。 今日は設営日デス。 展示パネルにハラッパの…

ついにイスが旭川から送られてきたゼ! CGとはまた違った印象。良くも悪くも。 あきらかに違うのは存在感。 数週間前は想像の世界のモノだったの�…

イスの三面図を作った。 青山のcasa materiaさんに渡して、北海道の工房に送ってもらった。 デザイン画を3DCGで作ったので、三面図もわりと簡単。 そ�…

告知ダ。 Tokyo Designer’s Week 2005のプロ展にて オレさまデザインドなイスの展示します。できます。やります。きっと。 期間は 11 / 2 ~ 6 デス。 そ�…

デザイナーズウィーク出展用のイス、引き続き製作中デス。 詳しくは前の記事↓を見てクレヨ。 デザイナーズウィーク入選! ヤヴァイ ! しかし万が�…

ポラロイドのピンホールカメラを買ってみた。 一万五千円って値段は、ピンホールカメラに使うには高すぎる。 でもこのポラロイドカメラは古いタ…

初ヌギ、みたいな。 殻をぬいだばっかりのセミさんです。タイトル、期待させてゴメン。 イヤ、むしろフルヌード、みたいな。 でもオスだし、み�…

オレさま、ついにケータイ変えましたよ。 最新機種であらせられるところの703shへj-phoneからひとっとび。 カラー液晶がまぶしいゼ。 で、また着せ�…

Tokyo Designer’s Week のプロ展、入選しました! おととしくらいに作ったイスのイラストを公募に送ったら、 晴れてイベントで展示されることに。 他…

ジュリの予防注射をおねがいしに 近所の獣医さんに行ったらパンフレットをもらった。 そのパンフレットに描かれた絵は Suicaペンギンの人、さかざ…

ネピアの鼻セレブっていうネーミングも すごいとおもってましたが、 なんと鼻セレブのトイレットーペーパー版を発見! 名前はもちろん、シ……

雑誌についてたペーパークラフトなピンホールカメラ、”zebra”で 写真を撮ってみた。通勤途中に寄り道ダ。 この建物はいっけん変な人だけ�…

職場でペーパークラフトがなぜか大流行中。 オレもブームにのってペーパークラフトのカメラを 作ってみた。雑誌のフロクでついてたやつだ。 ぴ�…

すっかり必要性を失って行き場もなく飽きてきたケータイ用着ぐるみのBullですが うちのjuriさんには着せられるはずもなく、せめてあたまの上にの�…

後追いでデザインにこだわったケータイを出してはみるもの、 auのこだわりにくらべるとその品質は バンダイの出すシャア専用製品レベルな いまど…

梅雨なのに初夏のような陽気の昨今、 今日からあたらしい人工衛星「ひまわり6号」の 正式運用がはじまりました。 本来ひまわり6号となるはずだっ…

アメリカ出身の友達に聞いてみました。 「アメリカっぽくておおざっぱな感じの ( 失礼 ) 　巨大チーズケーキとパイを東京近辺で食うならドコ?」 �…