The music is mightier than the sword.

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 sampler machine. That’s may the first Realtime Sampler Battle in Japan ! ( in the world? ). The rule is here. 1: Player can use any musical equipment. but you should put it in 120×45cm size table. 2: Player can use a prepared sound in your stock only one shot sound(ex. bass drum) 3: 3 players in each session. 4: In one set the session, 1st, free druming in 5 min at […]

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LEGOogle

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 process of imagine-create-play-share-reflect and return to imagine spiral. and at last, created Lego Mindstorms Robotics system. But I think, the Creative spiral is generated to play original LEGO brick too. In other words his LEGO system just expand it. Last week – January 28, 2008 was 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick. and google logo was laid LEGO! http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html Michael Resnick interview ( Japanese ) http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2008/01/28/879.html Cricket ( robotical educational toy system with handicraft on a Cute Design! ) http://www.picocricket.com/ […]

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Geta Smith

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 it. Long time ago, more shoe shop had hte Hanao repair service. But today, we don’t have enough opportunities to wear a Kimono with Geta, and such as shop was decreased by the changing our lifestyle. I wish more peoples use Geta more casually. Fortunately,there was earlier generations shoe shop in my town, and I could order to repair it. I can keep to wear the Geta for ten more years.

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blue tower

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.worlddiabetesday.org/wddgallery You see the blue building at left side in the picture is for Blue man Group performance. Blue Man Group http://www.blueman.com/

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my latest chair in the wild.

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 share your place and feeling with your lovely people by the impressive interaction. That’s my concept. And The new model have light up capable function. You can put a light, Video projector and home planetarium inside the chair to project the light to the cover. you can sit down at the light. In the picture, I put Video projector with fisheye lenz into the chair to project video images from the inside of the chair. And I used PS3 to […]

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F1 on the chair

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 project the TV image from the inside of my chair. The picture is the test. sprint for this last week and the next is Tokyo Designer’s Week!

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This year’s my chair’s 1st idea

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 solve that. No trouble, No life :-) Tokyo Designer’s Week ZERO exhibition http://www.c-channel.co.jp/jp/exhibition/zero.php

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Norick gone to Heaven

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 most of Japanese don’t know Japanese Racers compete for the championship in MotoGP, 250cc and 125cc class World Championship. But Norick made an effort to proceeded the poularity between his circuit actibity time. R.I.P. but I couldn’t believe that. I believed He’d back to MotoGP again. wikipedia: Norifumi Abe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norifumi_Abe his official page http://www.norickabe.com/

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