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- Male, 31 years old
- Designer at AQworks.com
- Living in Tokyo, Japan
- From Paris, France
- Write to me in English, French or Japanese
- Last logged in Apr 21, 2008
- http://induce.asoboo.com
Interaction designer in Tokyo since 2002. Worked at Honda R&D, now freelancing in design, web, usability. Founded www.tokyoartbeat.com couple years ago as a way to broadcast the wealth of art & design events happening in the city. The site also has an art review blog and a job board for designer jobs in Japan. Kansai Art Beat launched in April 2007 and New York Art Beat is on the way!! Personal blog: IN-duce.net
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Mar 19, 2008
Mar 15, 2008
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If you haven't visited our project hitotoki.org recently, then now is the time.
The small literary website building an emotional map of Tokyo is growing faster than we ever imagined, with London and NYC launched recently and the impending launch of 3 cities DC, Paris (in French and English) and Shanghai!
If you haven't submitted a story, now is the time!
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Without a doubt!! Great story, great character dvpt, no moe BS.
But careful though, it's gloomy!! gloo-my!! As the series progresses, you discover all the hardships that those kids have already gone through and it's pretty painful to watch, but that makes it all worth it!
A very unique story. Don't let yourself be intimidated by the couple robot fights happening in the background...
What matter are the lives of those kids! In more ways that you can imagine...of course I also enjoyed:
- Seirei no moribito
- Moonlight Mile season 1
- Toward the TerraCurrently watching Ghost Hound
and catching up on Denno CoilCheck out this preview of 2008's Spring series
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OK, I deleted all my comments by mistakes months ago and was hoping to be able to restore everything; but as this is going nowhere and new entries are piling up in the meantime, I have decided to just move on. So here you go, I am reopening this blog.
(Oh and I am thinking about redesigning the whole site!)
Jan 17, 2008
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10 points to better art & design event websites Share your thoughts or your favourite gallery websites!
Jan 12, 2008
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without a doubt!!
great story, great character dvpt, no moe BS.
but careful, it's gloomy!! gloo-my!!
As the series progresses, you discover all the hardships that those kids had/have to go through and it's pretty painful to watch but that makes it all worth it!
A very unique story. Don't let yourself be intimidated by the robot in the background... what matter are the lives of those kids! In more ways that you can imagine...
of course I also enjoyed:
- Seirei no moribito
- Moonlight Mile season 1
- Toward the Terra
Currently watching Ghost Hound
and catching up on Denno Coil -
salut jerome!
glad you found your new jobs thanks to TAB Jobs! Yay!
Sep 09, 2007
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After my recent announce of the new AU Summer Collection, I had to wait a couple months before the official release of the Casio W53CA phone.
I got the phone a few weeks ago and it's a beauty, as always. It's even thinner than the 43CA, the hinge is even smaller and more elegant. The screen is wider and QVGA (480x800) resolution. You know all those phone ads where the screen looks incredible crisp, but then you buy the phone and it's some crappy 120x60 resolution... Well the 53CA screen makes pics look like printed matter. Simply incredible.
The camera is pretty amazing too. It does take beautiful Exilim pics, better than any other camera phone I have ever seen. Of course, certain lighting condition will always be challenging but this thing can survive just about anything.
So is there anything to complain about?
The only hardware minus point I found was the new keyboard. While thinner, it's also harder to operate in the dark or blindly as the keys are mounted nearly seamlessly. But you get used to it. The side buttons are also thinner and harder to press when operating the camera...
As far as software goes, nothing to complain about besides:
1. the camera interface
2. English translationThe camera interface hasn't really evolved over the past few models and I wish it had!! This is a major minus in this otherwise great product!
The submenus feel randomly crammed into the maximum 12 top menus which means that after having used this interface for more than 2 years, I still can't remember where what is what!!
And since I fiddle with menus a lot, this is a big issue.ex 1:
when you choose the Scenes menu (called Best Shot - key #2), the first dialog box to come up asks you whether to turn it "ON" or "OFF". How weird, why not just give me access to the list of scenes?!ex 2:
White Balance, which I use 50% of the time to correct the weak light condition auto evaluation of the camera software is hidden in the 4th position choice of menu key 6 (shot assistant). That's 11 clicks or scrolls to access it when you are trying to take a picture!!! And it doesn't even have a shortcut key while Self-Timer (mislabeled as Self-Timer Setup) gets its own top menu. I have never ever seen anybody (nor used it myself) use a self timer on a keitai camera.ex 3:
"Album" is to view your photos. It takes the 3rd position of the menu just under Best Shot. Again it would be faster to access your pics via the Data Folder menu form the main camera menu. Why clog my menu when I am trying to take a picture.ex 4:
Shot Size gets 4th position. Is that really a priority? I would like to see user studies that prove people change picture size before taking shots, on a regular basis. Personally, one prime reason for doing so would be to make it lighter to send it to a friend, but the "mail this" menu offers to do just that when I DO actually want to mail them.ex 5:
Macro mode needs 7 click to be set up (although it does have a keypad shortcut). No wonder I never see people use it when they need it. Actually I rarely see people use it with conventional digital cameras either...I guess this list could go on and on but overall, I love this phone and would NOT trade it for anything else on the market!!
But anyway, if anyone knows people at Casio/Hitachi, I would be happy to send in a more detailed report on the camera and funny English translations or even come in for a chat! Yes I am talking to you... S. ;-)
Sep 08, 2007
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So I've spent the past couple hours helping find Steve Fossett. I have become a Mechanical Turk for Amazon and have been reviewing satellite imagery of the area where Steve is supposed to have disappeared last Monday.
I am not a super fan of Steve but I have followed his record-breaking exploits in the news over the past few years and felt kinda touched by his disappearance; enough to wish that I could help actually, and enough to subscribe to Google Alerts on Monday to receive alerts in my inbox as soon as any news site would update us on him.When I heard that his buddy Richard Branson was collaborating with Google and their famous maps to help find him I laughed a bit because those satellite photos are not known for being always up-to-date, nor very high-def (for non Pro members at least)...
But then a few things happened today:
- I watched Deja-Vu in which some machine allows to "see" in the past and track people and their whereabouts in the area the movie takes place in.
- It made me wonder what it would take to build a system to review satellite imagery and help find Steve, in the same way that unused computer cycles can be used to help fight cancer, Aids etc via the various grid projects .
- Next thing, I open my mails and see a Google Alerts pointing to this:
You Might Help Find Steve Fossett.And so I better get back to my tasks.
Aug 04, 2007
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This just in!
A week after DoCoMo announced their new accelerometer-fitted mobile phones, AU have just done the same with their own Summer 2007 collection...
10 phones!Quick snippets:
- 2 Casio phones. One of them (the W53CA) is now branded with Casio's digital camera brand Exilim and boasts a 5.1 MP camera! You know which phone I am already considering buying... ;-)Update 1:
The W53CA has finally been announced and is coming out in Tokyo on the 9th of August. It's the last one of the new collection to come out.New details have emerged on the phone. They have really worked hard to build it as close as possible to a real camera. Here are a few points:
- 5MP CMOS sensor that goes beyond just cramming more pixels on a 2MP sensor
- wide angle!!
- 9 zone autofocus
- Auto-Exposure-Bracketing!!
- Night shoot mode
- Camera launch made ultra fast when twisting and folding the screen back on itself.I'll be queuing next Thursday to get the phone.
Any good address in central Tokyo to get it cheaper than the Bic Camera monster?
People on burikkoboy
Oct 09, 2007
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antonietti sayshello
haven't you been on the last pause talk cafe?
I guess I saw your face as well on face book recently...connected with cyril duval or bertrand nouvel?
it's strange sometimes the web and tokyo places are big and narrow...
anyway take care
thomas
Aug 21, 2007
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