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Art&Exhibitions, Diary, Life in London

Course Start

Posted on 20th Oct 2008

The course started from last Monday.  The first week was induction...introduction of the course,  introducing each other, tour of the school etc... Reading the syllabus, I felt sure that I would never get bored for the year. Every lecture looks interesting, they are exactly what I wanted to study  (= skills and information I need). The schedule is online,  […]

Digital products & Design

Impressions about FLASH

Posted on 14th Oct 2008

I feel like it's been ages since I left Japan, but finally the MA course started yesterday. I would like to write about it later, but anyway,I had to do "pre-induction" work so I had been struggling with FLASH recently. Well, when I was working in Japan, I had no time for creation and also […]

Digital products & Design, Life in London, TV&Films

BBC iPlayer, Sky News and London Paper

Posted on 11th Oct 2008

Because I don't have my TV in my room, one of my concern was how I can get everyday information. I usually use BBC iPlayerand Sky News. Although I don't remember how the previous BBC site was, I read an article saying their re-design was really successful. They are broadcasting their programmes of the past […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

Digital Design Day

Posted on 22nd Sep 2008

I went to Digital Design Week at Southbank Centre in London Design Festival. Well, I think the event was not so good... They had a seminar by apple talking about a workflow of digital design process, and a debate about new media by i-design. I was not afford to listen to i-design as it was […]

Diary, Digital products & Design

The fight against PIN

Posted on 20th Sep 2008

Well, this is not related to London, but... Since I came here, I needed to open new accounts a lot such as bank or mobile. The problem is always password or PIN. I can't remember which one was for what, and I got locked out from the online banking a few days ago, and from […]

Art&Exhibitions, Diary, Life in London

Upon the Thames

Posted on 16th Sep 2008

I like walking along the Thames. I think, around Westminster is always full of tourist, but around Design Museum which located near to Tower Hill is rather less people and good place to relax. If the weather is good, Tower Bridge looks amazing as well. The museums on Japanese tour guidebook are usually something focus […]

Theatre

The Woman in Black

Posted on 15th Sep 2008

The Woman in Black, which has been played for 19 years at the Fortune Theatre in London. The drama was exported to Japan in 1992, directed by Robin Herford, and have been played some times for years. Hearing that "Japanised" version would be re-imported to the Fortune Theatre as "Japanese Week", I couldn't help but […]

Music, Travel

Liverpool!

Posted on 8th Sep 2008

Although it's been more than 2 weeks already, I went to Liverpool with friends! It was just the date of the Beatles Week, and Matthew Music Festival, so it was soooo difficult to book accommodation. Fortunately I could find a B&B and a-not-so-cheap-hotel in last minutes. I went there by Mega Bus but it was […]

Diary, Life in London

How different we are.

Posted on 31st Aug 2008

So, I'm attending the language class at the moment prior to the main course which starts in October. I had been told that all students would be Asian. But actually we are such a multi-cultural class. Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Brazilian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Colonbian, Spanish, Estonian, Dutch...I am only Japanese in the class. It's fun, […]

Diary, Life in London

Cooking

Posted on 30th Aug 2008

It's been for a while since I wrote last time as I was so busy with assignment, but I'd like to resume writing now! Yes, I'm basically lazy, but I cook recently. I love wandering around tesco. Oh, I found Kikkoman's soy sauce. And something looks like chinese cabbage! Well now I wish to have […]