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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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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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Doitsu no terebi
For the next five days, I’m on the crew of Global Cities as they shoot the sixth and final show in the series. It’s a hectic schedule, but fun. Yesterday we interviewed Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan; Yu Miri, a Japanese-Korean author; Jonathan Watt, a correspondent for the Guardian; and Ramesh Kapoor, who founded the
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Meishi of my own
Since we moved in February, I’ve not had any personal meishi (business cards), but while shopping the other day, I found some very interesting translucent stock that will work in my inkjet printer. So today I’m designing some new cards. I forgotten how challenging it is to get a good balance of white space, graphic
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With Africa Against povery
A couple of weeks ago, I accepted a pro bono job to make a virtual banner to accompany the “With Africa Against Poverty” campaign that the United Nations Development Programme is running. All of the footballers in Africa (along with some FIFA executives and the heads of several African nations) signed a huge, 7 meter
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