Design fiesta

Today we had a design fiesta, I came in early today to help today to set the computer up, and I was really surprised to see how everything came together. I hope everybody will come tonight.

Finishing my final project.

Today I am finishing up my final project, what I am doing for final project is looking at Kawagoe city from my point of view. I designed my own poster for Kawagoe city and also made little music used acoustic guitar. I hope everything will go great at the design fiesta.

Getting ready to be done

Today we are finishing all the pictures from the tattoo sesstion and also we had to go back to talk to the tattoo artist about what traditional tattoo means to him and also putting the audio and music togerther. we found great music on free play music website and we both are really excited about founding the music.

New Start

Today I was helping Tomoka for her final project, we went to Asakusa to shoot Festival there. We walked around taking some pictures and talking to the people who was working on it. We did omikugi which is paper that suppose to tell what you whole year is suppose to be about, and I guess mine life is turning up and if I work hard this year my life will become better life!!!!!

Scar tissue

Today is the day!!!!! We went to tattoo soul to get Suz tattooed, I could tell she was excited but same time nervous, but the guy Hori Shun who was the tattoo artiest he did great job calming her and he was really nice guy that she did not feel any pressure. First he did outline with machine and then he did the rest by hand, he has needles that almost like clip on type and have blade on the top of the stick. While he is shaving the blade into her skin and when take out the blade it leaves the ink, that's how they keep the ink fresh and not fade away. He also talked about how color of ink comes out differently with skin color with traditional way, because it is almost like you are mixing the ink with your skin color (actually making it part of your body), that means each individual person will have own tattoo color and no one copy it, because no one can copy your skin color. I thought it was really deep and nice, I learned a lot from this session.

texture and pattern

Today my partner and I went to Harasyuku to take some picture for our cell phone project. We chose to take any picture around Harazyuku Takesita-douri stores, we got yelled a lot for taking pictures. But after while of taking picture secretly it got a lot more fun when we met different people on the streets and listening to what they really do for their work and the job that they have on the street is just to support their rent and others. one person we met was he was working at sun-glasses store, but he love doing human boom box, he dose some lives music shows here in Japan but same time he has gone to US to do some live shows. It was really interesting what they wanted to share and same time I was surprised that he shared his life with us. I think because it is Japan. It was nice experience.

Festival in Kawagoe

Today I went to the Kawagoe festival today, this festival have been going on since Meigi period, this is a biggest festival of the year, they cover the whole street with stores of food and others. This is festivals that all the people of city comes together and bring out the old tradition of ceremony.