antonette and takeshi

so i mentioned earlier last month that antonette was in an ad campaign with kitano takeshi along with a few other of our coworkers. this video is of the posters and billboards she appeared in all over town and on the trains and subway. check out the tv commercial if you havent already.

10th floor classroom (mobile video)

here is some quick footage of my new swanky classroom on the tenth floor of one of the ritzy places in town. pretty nice view. having a shhhweet view of the outside world keeps the day a little more interesting.

Summer is here

Our summer vacation officially starts tomorrow. I have a ton of videos to edit and post so keep a look out for those. In the meantime I'm trying out this new panoramic software for the iPhone called "auto stitch." it seems to be a lot easier to use than the previous application I've been using, panolab pro, but it also seems to lack the manual controls that panolab has. I think I'll stick with it though. Here's a sample.
-- mobile post from my iPhone

tandem puking

i dunno why, but i still find these types of sightings so funny. it's gross and not uncommon, but seeing a couple throw up together? kinda romantic and not so common... or maybe one threw up first and it was so gross it caused the other to lose their dinner as well? in any case it's still funny.

mobile version

Farmer tan showdown

On the way to the applestore this morning to get my MacBook repaired (I spilled mitsuya cider all over my keyboard in my sleep) I saw these 3 kids on the subway having what appeared to be a lengthly discussion about their famer tans. I should have shown them mine. They would have been blinded.

On another note, I am still cameraless. Hopefully that will change next month.
-- mobile post from my iPhone

Better than IBM

There is some sort of school for technology, maybe a design school- I'm not sure, in this spiral tower next to Nagoya station. One of my students told me it's called HAL (as you can see in the photo) because they wanted to be "better" than IBM. So they named it HAL, H comes before I in the alphabet, A before B and L before M. Therefore HAL > IBM? I think it's pretty funny.
-- mobile post from my iPhone

Toyohashi on Tuesdays

On the way to toyohashi from our new apartment which is only a 15 min walk from Nagoya station. Another beautiful day in japan, though I have yet to find my beloved canon vixia hf100 HD camcorder. Where oh where can you be?
-- mobile post from my iPhone

a white xmas in japan

merry xmas and happy new year from japan!

antonette and i took advantage of the early snow in gifu and decided to go on our first snowboarding adventure. we spent most of the day falling instead of actually snowboarding, but it was a lot of fun ;)

antonette managed to get some footage of all the xmas decorations near nagoya station the following evening.

props to antonette for taking all the footage in this video. she did a great job.



can't watch HD? click here to watch this video in standard definition.