So my friend and I are having this long conversation over sms/texting while I’m at the desk working and its one that I think I’ve been needing to have to help push this thesis/my identity/being ok with my interest in Japan.
HER: Eww, now I’m ashamed of coming here! Chanto shukudai yatteruno?
ME: Not yet haha. I’m […]

This is the famous chair that I was talking about in class, that I couldn’t find. Well I was eventually able to find it, I was just looking in the wrong place. It is a piece that is part of a collection of furniture with neon lighting accents on them. Created by Lee Brom for […]

I was reading one of the blogs that I look at semi-regularly and there was a post about how this man takes a daily photo of this vending machine that is right by his apartment. (link) But what is crazy is that the man then posts the images on his blog, linked above, and you […]

Monkey Majik + Yoshida Kyoudai - Change
This song came out awhile ago, but it still resonates with me as a wonderful example of this idea of remix culture. Here you have an interesting blend of the more modern rock side (monkey majik) and then the more traditional side (Yoshida Kyoudai) paired together to make this […]

As I was looking at one of my favorite online publications pingmag I saw some work from a designer named Hideki Inaba. As it seems the case I was immediately attracted to the visual style of his work. It was referred to as ’super fine lines’ and while that is an accurate visual description of […]

Interative Media can include, but not limited to these ideas;
cross-media; networking different types of media. Can incorporate any type of media, not just digital media, aslong as they are able to talk to one another.
pervasive; extends into the real world taking place during everyday environments.
persistent; somehow alive.  available all the time to multiple people at […]

hitotoki.org was a site that I had read about a while back while I was in Japan. Although I quickly disregarded it for some reason, I stumbled upon it once again today in my never ending quest for thesis.
In short the site is about using oral history and mapping together, much like some of my […]

As it stands right now, that is the basic form of my identity. I developed it in a sort of hurry for applying for internships and a general feeling of having some sort of “look” however, like most things that I do, I feel it is time for a change. Part of what I want […]

Here is another type of LED art piece that illuminates a space. It has a more organic motion to it than the throwies, but these are more stationary. The playaflies themselves are just LEDs placed within ping pong ball, however there are a bunch of things that you can do with these. The inherit qualities […]

This was a quick map that I did of the Hibiya Line (ひびや線) in Tokyo. This was made for a class I was in that took us out in to the city and made us learn about the area. It was research so that we could eventually make a piece that talked about the […]