Nothing but some, things

I went to see onedotzero this year too.
I didn't see any installation, so it's
only about j-star09.

They showed these movies.

1. Satoshi Tomioka : "Usavich"
2. Kitune Akimoto : "Meat or Die"
3. Hidenobu Tanabe : "Phantom Planet" (Beat Crusaders)
4. Takeshi Nakamura : "Mind Wall"
5. Shintaro Kago : "Terror on the golf course"
6. Mirai Mizue : "Devour Dinner"
7. Makoto Yabuki : "As One"
8. Mood Magic : "Hinotori"
9. Takafumi Tsuchiya : "With Rain"
10. Takahiro Kimura : "Born to Bone"
11. Takafumi Tsuchiya : "Apoptosis"
12. Wow : "Another perspective"
13. Groovisions: "Ensuring the future of food"
14.Kawamura, Kirkland, Nakamura + Kawamura : "Hibi no Neiro"
15. Taijin Takeuchi : "A Wolf Loves Pork"
16. Horoaki Higashi : "Ahiru"
17. Muto Masashi : I will be here
18. kouki Tange : "Bikini Sports Ponchin"
19. Daito Manage: "Electric Stimulus to Face Test 6"

Again, I really liked the movies by Makoto Yabuki
and Takafumi Tsuchiya, whose movies were shown last year too.
I like their very detailed graphic and texture...
Also Taijin Takeuchi who is doing stop motion animation,
his work was actually made inside a small room,
but looked like we are traveling outside of the room,
and was good idea! Also, "Hinotori" by Moon Magic was
amazing...(It might not enough to convey it on youtube)

I went to see coldplay!

It was amazing. It's still playing repeatedly in my head.
Actually I was so excited already just because
the place was Wembley. When I got to the station,
I wished it was a football match...
but no, that thought was wrong, coldplay was wonderful.

I have seen coldplay twice in Japan...
but this time was the best! Of course they are
in their own country, their home city,
and maybe because it was the last day of the tour,
they looked really full of life.

The live consists of both tracks from "Viva la Vida"
and older tracks by turns, they played
"In my place" and "Yellow" even at the beginning,
it was so exciting to sing these songs with lots of people.
"Fix you" almost made me cry!
Also their graphics and lighting were amazing,
I enjoyed all from the beginning to the end.
Their stage always looks cool, but it was
awesome this time.

They also played tracks like "God Put A Smile Upon
Your Face" and "Talk" in "electrical" version.
(It sounded a bit like the Gorillaz...)
In the middle part, they moved from the main stage
to a smaller stage in the middle of audience,
and played in acoustic style, it was full of amazing music.

Led by Chris Martin, we tried "mobile wave" as well.
(each person holds mobile phone and do wave!
So beautiful!)During that, coldplay played "Billie Jean"!
It was so unexpected but actually they were quite good.

I was so fascinated by Chris Martin.
He changed that strange hair style, so looked cool.
His voice was so beautiful too...

It was my dream to see them in the UK.
And they showed me a wonderful night.
I love you, Coldplay!

The course finished last week.
One year was so quick!

For the last project, we made an
iPhone application called "Alight".

Alight is an application to allow users
to associate their small ideas in daily life
with particular location, so that they will
have more chanced to develop them further.

I was in charge of interface design.
I know iPhone is not small as mobile phone,
but still designing menu for small screen
was good learning for me.

We used 50inch plasma TV for the degree show,
so I had to edit some footages (which I hadn't
done for a few years!). My poor macbook (not pro)
was crying all the time rendering HD.

Finishing the course, I really feel that I met
such wonderful classmates! It was so fun
to do project with people who are enthusiastic about
interactive media, and we enjoyed the time together
even outside the studio!
Some of them have already gone back to their own
countries, but I believe I can see them in the future again.

By the way,

>To friends in London,
I have to move our from the current flat soon,
and looking for a new place! Please let me know
if you have any ideas.

>To friends in Japan,
I'm going back to Japan in October!
Let's go for a drink if you have time.
Let me know when you are free,
but as I am a poor student, (i.e. no money
to drink a lot)
let's drink together if you guys know each other lol