Nothing but some, things

My friend told me about this,
I went to the Lavender Harvest.
It smelled so nice even outside the place.
They were selling lavender oil and creams etc.
It was so fun.

I had rice balls and Japanese tea for lunch.
(OK, it's not British style, but...)
And we went to pick lavender.

I realised it was the heaven for bees...
They looked so huge...so scared.
Everyone said, "Don't worry, they wouldn't
hurt you". But still scary!
Well, but they looked so busy flying around lavenders.

Although it rained a bit, it was so nice
to have been away from London and surrounded by lavender.
It still smells so nice in my room now,
I'm feeling so happy!

My friends told me about "Magistrates"
and I went to see their gig at koko yesterday.
It was really good! I loved it.

I don't know why, but their tune sounds
a bit like Asian traditional music.
But still soulful.
The vocal's voice was so good.

You can listen to their music here.
http://www.myspace.com/magistratesband

Portugal day3 = Offf day 2.
The first talk I saw on that day was by Aaron Koblin.
I had seen his works sometimes,
but didn't know his name, so it was so surprising
I could hear his talk in Portugal.
He visualise the information using the Processing,
and also does experimental projects related to
"Wisdom of Crowds". The promotion for Radiohead
is also popular.

The talk was maintly about these issues.

1. Visualising information.
There are many kinds of "visualisation",
but he uses things like the record of
searching query, or flghts records and
I find interesting that make animated
information using actual data which happened
in the reality. The promotion of Radiohead
was done by capturing his movement.
All the works has very detailed texture,
and looks so beautiful.

2. Wisdom of Crowd
He showed the project to ask 2000 internet users
to sing only one sound of the whole song,
and to combine them into one song.
And the project to ask 10,000 users to draw sheep.
It was so funny one users wrote
"Why are you doing this?" instead of drawing.

Anyway, seeing would be quicker so
have a look at his website.

Aaron Koblin Site
Song by 2000 people is here
Not sure if we can say it's working though.

This is a some scenes from the talk.

It is the Switzerland Day2.
We went to Jungfrau, which I heard
the highest mountain in Switzerland.
We went to the bottom of the mountain
from Interlaken by car.
(I don't remember the name of the station...
I can't remember as I couldn't pronounce it!)

Unfortunately we couldn't go to the top,
but the scenery was amazing~~~.
It was Switzerland! Mountain!
What a scale! The ice cream I had there
was so yummy~~~. Eating an ice cream,
having a walk, we had a sandwitch lunch
wathing the mountain and the sky.
It was such a nice time.

After returning to the bottom of the mountain,
we went to see the village near to there.
There was some waterfalls, looked great.
Meeting cows, sheep, and we had nice time again.
To be continued to the day3.

I finally finished my disseration! I'm free!
And, oops, I was writing my blog in Japanese
but have been lazy for the English version...
now I have to catch up.
So, this is about the trip to Spain, Day3.

We went to one day trip to Sevilla.
It is a capital city of Andalucia...it's huge!
But the buildings of pastel colours looked so European.
Walking around, we arrived at Santa Cruz area.
Narrow passages look so pretty.

For the lunch, I tried gazpacho yummy!
I liked its light taste, and I love tomato!

After that, we went to the cathedral.

err...it's blurred. But it looked amazing.
Its detailed decoration was brilliant.
As usual, it looked like CG...

To be continued to the day4.
Well, after writing about Portugal and Swiss.

I'm so busy with writing my disseration
that I can't update this blog at the moment,
but I found a lovely music video so will put the link to it.

This kind of "effect" could be done by editing application,
but they made it "by hand" using a lot of webcamera.
I also like that a lot of people from different
countried participate it.

It gave me a small happiness while I am so busy.