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Holy 1950s
Don’t I look like Mrs. Cleaver in my jewelry and apron? I’m showing off cleaning products for the video. These all have pictures on them, which are helpful for the functional illiterate who wants a tidy room.
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Road (construction) rage
Plans for filming yesterday were thwarted by road construction. My valiant camerawoman got no sleep because of all-night construction near her house. So we put off our reshoot in Ginza until the MJ gets some sleep and we have another sunny day. Tomorrow we’ll shoot the grocery store and cooking scenes. It’s coming together slowly,…
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Current projects
I’ve added a new page to my mediatinker site: Current Projects. I’ll try to keep it up to date with the things I’m working on. Describing my projects to an unfamiliar audience makes me realise that I’m doing some pretty interesting stuff. When I’m actually doing the work, it doesn’t seem so interesting and sometimes…
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RSS and weblogs
Every morning, I spend between an hour and 2 hours checking in on friend’s weblogs and reading news. Lately, I’ve been thinking that this activity takes up too much of my time. NetNewsWire keeps track of new headlines on news sites and new posts in weblogs. This would be a huge time saver. But… It…
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The storyboards are done
The storyboards are done and most of the locations are figured out. Now I have to confirm a few minor points, get in touch with some people, call in favors, and get a haircut. Then I can start filming…
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Sketching storyboards
This morning I am sketching storyboards for a video project I’m planning. By the end of the day I will have drawn 137 frames. My sketches are cartoonish and probably not illustrative to anyone except me. How is anyone going to know that the green line on a grey background with three white boxes above…
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The Global Cities Tokyo
The Global Cities Tokyo team (me, Fred, Chiharu, and Wilson) are smiling because the film is “in the can.” We wrapped up last night at about 11 pm; Wilson and Fred are on their way back to Frankfurt today. At the end of the night as we said our thanks and goodbyes, it really felt…
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Sugamo filming
Yesterday was a fun day of shooting at Togenuki Jizo in Sugamo, “Grandma’s Harajuku.” I’m too rushed to write more, but I’ll be back tomorrow.
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Stamina in Kabukicho
I have no idea how these guys shoot for 14 hours without stopping or eating. In this photo, taken yesterday at 17:30, I’m exhausted, sunburned, sweaty and starving after traversing Harajuku, Omotesando and Shin-Okubo from 10:00. They are taking shot after shot of Kabukicho’s neon-covered porn shops & pachinko parlors. I’m cranky and at the…
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On the grass at the Dome
Yesterday one of our filming locations was Tokyo Dome. We captured the Yomiuri Giants’ batting practice and pre-game activities. We attracted some attention from the press. I guess it isn’t every day that a foreign film crew invades the regular reporters’ turf. I fielded a bunch of questions about who we are and what we’re…
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