One more bathroom

Ok… I promise this will be the last one :) Legacy links from the original WordPress post ...

From sadness and sorrow to joy and beauty

That was the range of my day today. Kind of expecting it but did not think I would actually have tears in my eyes. I first wandered around the Peace Memorial Park preparing myself to go into the actua...

Japanese Bathroom, Bike Garage, and Coffee

Well, in China most of the bathrooms are crouch-down style. In Japan it’s a different story… Even the bike garage at Max’s place is pretty cool… The packaging here is also awesome… it is all...

Hiroshima night pictures

So the rain subdued and I went out for a walk and dinner. Dinner proved to be harder than I thought… unlike Tokyo there are very few menus with pictures or any signs in English for that matter. The ...

Hiroshima

Woke up early today and caught the train to Hiroshima… sounds simple? Not really… first went to the Shinjuku Station at 8am. The JR exchange office only opened at 11 so I had to go to Tokyo Statio...

Night shot in Tokyo

Just played around with the view from Max’s apt yesterday night. Legacy links from the original WordPress post http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf http://www.macromedia.com/go/g...

More Tokyo

Today I went on the bike to the Shinjuku Gardens, Imperial Palace, Ginza, Hama-rikyu Gardens and the Tokyo Dome (by mistake). Inside the Shijuku Garden there is an active temple where people go to pra...

ITP videos

Great collection of almost all of the projects of the ITP Spring 2007 show: http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/showvideos/ ...

Other side of the world

So I was wondering what is exactly opposite to Tokyo in the world… First I found out that this is called the antipodal point. Turns out that the calculation is pretty simple. - The new latitude will...

Tokyo day 1 and 2

First night in town Max, Anais and I went out for dinner at Ropongi. We picked a random place and had some great skewers. The subway system here is incredible and easy to use. Taxis are outrageously e...