Month: November 2008

Digital products & Design

searchWiki

I tried to use searchWiki by google yesterday! So what you need to do is just logging in to google account, and you will find some unfamiliar links next to the result of search. One is to “pick up” and one it to “delete” the result. Now we had a question. It looks this feature works only for exact the same query. Which means, even if you delete one of the results for a query “noodle”, when you try “noodle Japanese”, the deleted result comes up again. …isn’t it a bit irritating? So our main opinion was “well….I wouldn’t use […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

onedotzero 08 (2)

So, the onedotzero report No.2. For some reasons, I went to see another movie named “j-star08” on Sunday. It consists of short motion graphics by 20 Japanese creators, including music video, short animation, adverts etc… and it was much better than I expected! The director of the event talked at the beginning, but he said he liked Japanese film directors and is still interested in Japanese movie creators, and direct this j-star for onedotzero. I’m really happy to hear someone is interested in Japanese creators. So, we had these movies. Yoshiyuki Komatsu [Power Graphics] : “asadoya yunta” Takeo Hatai : […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

onedotzero 08 (1)

I went to see the event “onedotzero” last weekend with my friends. It’s an event of “motion image”, and it seems it was held in Japan last year as well. As the website says “There are some interactive installations”, so I was so looking forward to it. But they are not so big… I’d like to upload some of them. So, the film we saw was called “Tokyo!” by three creators including Michel Gondry. Each three world was extremely funny and weird, but I still thought they captured some aspects of Tokyo sharply. I like the one by Michel Gondry […]

TV&Films

Quantum Of Solace

I went to see 007! Daniel Craig is sooooo cooool. I was so surprised how big the cinema, ODEON leicester was. Almost 1700 sheets!? Can’t believe… (Is it true that there is bigger cinema is US?) But almost all sheets were full. I assume people in this country love James Bond after all. I don’t write the details of the film here, but a bit of my impression. So, this film is by Sony Pictures, the story is quite straight forward and all the gadgets 007 uses is made by Sony! Ok, that can’t be helped, but compared to the […]

Diary

To study English and to study in English

It’s been four weeks since the course started. Still suffering from a lack of English ability, I’m enjoying the course anyway. So today I’d like to write about studying English and studying in English. To be honest, I don’t like studying English. I really don’t understand grammar or these things. But the reason why I still challenging it is because I can see a lot of new world if I can use English properly. “New world” could have some different meaning, but what I’m trying now, studying in English, is one of them. I know, it’s really tough, especially if […]