1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Source: Youtube video
It's the sounds of Tokyo. They were collected in 1994 by this person, Gary Wolff, after he moved to Japan. In the end of the video he explains more about the sounds he collected. This site is really a great source on Japan.
I got to exchange some words with Gary over Youtube. He gave me the link to his site. The site carries his own name - Gary J. Wolff. In his site Gary shares his uniquely American perspective of Japan's absolutely fascinating and exciting culture. If, like me, you have an (old) interest in Japan this is a site you should visit!
Gary also blogs about Japan.
I got to exchange some words with Gary over Youtube. He gave me the link to his site. The site carries his own name - Gary J. Wolff. In his site Gary shares his uniquely American perspective of Japan's absolutely fascinating and exciting culture. If, like me, you have an (old) interest in Japan this is a site you should visit!
Gary also blogs about Japan.
0:00 Sumo wrestling match
4:14 Rajio Taiso Daiichi (morning stretch song)
7:32 Pachinko parlor
8:20 Yaki-imo (sweet potato) man
10:22 Train platform announcement
12:28 Torianse (pedestrian crossing song)
13:11 Fish market hawkers
15:10 Pub Elvis karaoke bar
22:56 Yuyake (5 o'clock dinner) chime
24:19 Shinkansen (bullet train)
25:04 Japanese country band
28:12 Riding on a city bus
29:49 Gary's explanation of sound tracks
What about some modern pop japanese music? It's World Order and Genki Sudo with a cute video. Filmed on the streets.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Tokyo
Issey Miyake’s flagship stores on Omotesando.
4:14 Rajio Taiso Daiichi (morning stretch song)
7:32 Pachinko parlor
8:20 Yaki-imo (sweet potato) man
10:22 Train platform announcement
12:28 Torianse (pedestrian crossing song)
13:11 Fish market hawkers
15:10 Pub Elvis karaoke bar
22:56 Yuyake (5 o'clock dinner) chime
24:19 Shinkansen (bullet train)
25:04 Japanese country band
28:12 Riding on a city bus
29:49 Gary's explanation of sound tracks
What about some modern pop japanese music? It's World Order and Genki Sudo with a cute video. Filmed on the streets.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Tokyo
Source: Youtube video
Issey Miyake’s flagship stores on Omotesando.
Harajuku and Omotesando - It's about trend conscious teens and the Champs-Elysees of Tokyo.
Tokyo sights -Youtube video with images Omotesando, Harajuku and Shabuya, and Museum of Contemporary Art
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Shinichi Suzuki : "Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Shinichi Suzuki : "Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."
Site - "Shinichi Suzuki spent his life proving that ability is not inborn and that talent can be created. Born in Nagoya, Japan on the 17th of October in 1898, he is remembered for his method of teaching young children so that all develop exceptional talent."
Steve Jobs - "Japan’s very interesting... They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor."
Yohji Yamamoto - an award winning and influential Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris
Steve Jobs - "Japan’s very interesting... They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor."
Yohji Yamamoto - an award winning and influential Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris
“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time".
Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this:
“I don’t bother you - don’t bother me.”
Site
Vivienne Westwood - English fashion designer and business woman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream
Vivienne Westwood - English fashion designer and business woman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream
Site
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INPIRATION
"No one understands “training and experience” better than them. Japanese people are known for their perfectionism. They dedicate extreme focus and attention on (improving) quality."“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney
Issey Miyake’s A-POC collection (or A Piece of Cloth) - a technology to create clothing from a single piece of thread in a single process.
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INPIRATION
"No one understands “training and experience” better than them. Japanese people are known for their perfectionism. They dedicate extreme focus and attention on (improving) quality."“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney
Issey Miyake’s A-POC collection (or A Piece of Cloth) - a technology to create clothing from a single piece of thread in a single process.
Another link on Issey's Miyake's A-POC -
The speech Miyake gave when he received the Kyoto Prize for art and philosophy (2006): “One Life, One Thread, and One Piece of Cloth: The Work of Issey Miyake”.
And the story oj Job's 100 black turtlenecks...
A review of his work
6. HANDS ON
Today I was asked to make a tshirt. The tshirt should tell something about me in an indirect way. The shirt has to tell things about me not because there is my name printed on it. It has to tell things about me because of the way it is made.
Yesterday I was really upset with the way this task run. I spent one hour and a half doing it. Too much! I planned something easy. A piece that we call a "cai-cai". It's a piece of fabric with just a seam where a rubber goes so it can hold around our body. I imagined a fabric necklace to go along with it. Something to wear on next year's Valentine's Day, right?! A used an old t-shirt from my boyfriend. For the printing I used acrylic ink.
The speech Miyake gave when he received the Kyoto Prize for art and philosophy (2006): “One Life, One Thread, and One Piece of Cloth: The Work of Issey Miyake”.
"The concept is based on fabric which has been industrially cut into tubes; a tube of cloth is fed into a machine which outlines and cuts the shape of the clothing - a dress, a hat, socks. The garment is cut from a long tube of fabric, which the customer is then able to cut into various shapes so there is no need for sewing machines."
“Miyake is weaving garments that don’t need to be sewn,” says Jack Lenor Larsen, an internationally renowned textile designer, “and that is the wave of the future.”
And the story oj Job's 100 black turtlenecks...
A review of his work
6. HANDS ON
Today I was asked to make a tshirt. The tshirt should tell something about me in an indirect way. The shirt has to tell things about me not because there is my name printed on it. It has to tell things about me because of the way it is made.
Yesterday I was really upset with the way this task run. I spent one hour and a half doing it. Too much! I planned something easy. A piece that we call a "cai-cai". It's a piece of fabric with just a seam where a rubber goes so it can hold around our body. I imagined a fabric necklace to go along with it. Something to wear on next year's Valentine's Day, right?! A used an old t-shirt from my boyfriend. For the printing I used acrylic ink.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
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