Daily Findings: Alphabet Project

A friend emailed me the link to Toxel.com this afternoon. Lara was in my design classes throughout the years... This brought me back the memory of dreading this project assigned to us. I guess I was just too lazy at that time and didn't want to look around for alphabets in the nature.

Funny thing is that now I am working as a designer in the real world, and I have more appreciation for this type of creative project, I was thinking about looking for alphabets again... then I got an email from Lara. Craziness!

personal trend ／夢中なこと

最近、写真に興味が…　特にデジカメは現像しなくて済むから楽。とりあえず、デジタルで練習してある程度上手になったらフィルムに移ろうかなあ。…ケチです。ハイ。

Lately I've been taking photos more often. It's fascinating to see things through the viewfinder and capture things majority of people won't notice. Also the digital camera is nice since I don't have to develop films... My goal is to practice with the digital then move back to the 35 mm eventually. There is something attractive about the film... maybe because I won't be tempted to edit them too much...



着々とカメラ増えている。一番新しいのはオモチャでVQ1005。Flickrで写真を見かけてから、ずーっと気になってた。けどなかなか見つからなくって、ネットで発見後に即購入。Lo-Fiな写真がいい感じ。

Here's my latest purchase... VQ1005. It's a key chain toy camera. Since I saw the photos taken by this particular camera on Flickr, I've been wanting one. I really like that "Lo-Fi" look of the photos.

Daily Findings: Skull-A-Day

A book by Noah Scalin of Another Limited Rebellion has been published recently. Pretty awesome! Congraturation, Noah!


I took the class by Noah, called Socially Conscious Design, when was the student at Virginia Commonwealth University. Noah's work has been very inspirational to me...

bebeh Haru / ハルくん

土曜日は友達とお昼を食べるために、レキシントンまでドライブ。で、１ヶ月まえに無事出産を済ましたサッちゃんのお家にちょっとお邪魔。生後１週間の時に会ったハルくん。３週間でかなり大きくなってるんでビックリ！

After having lunch with Mickey in Lexington, I stopped by at a friend's house who just had their baby boy about a month ago. I have met Haru a week after he was born, but I was very surprised to see how fast he has grown in the past three weeks!

ハルくんよく寝る・・・起きたかと思ったら、次々と表情が変わる変わる！まるで百面相・・・おもしろい〜

Baby Haru sleeps so well, but once he was awake he was so busy changing his expressions every five seconds! So cute and funny...

カメラ見て泣いちゃったかと思ったら、オムツが汚れていたらしい。

I thought the camera freaked him out... It turns out that his diaper needed to be changed.

お母さんと一緒、はいチーズ。with his mammy. cheese.

after Ike passed / 台風アイクの被害

電気が復旧して一週間。電気が無いときのほうがキャンプみたくって、のんびりしてて悪くなかったかも・・・？　でもさすがに１週間の停電には参った！冷蔵庫の中の物すべてゴミ箱行き。仕事も自宅勤務なのでつらかった。
It's been about a week since the power came back after the hurricane Ike passed through Louisville. It was nice to get to go to bed once it got dark, but throwing everything out from the refrigerator wasn't great nor the work situation with the computer... It wasn't easy to spend the entire week without power for sure.

倒れそうな感じの電柱。a power pole was bearing standing...

アパートの前。外に出たら木の枝が山積みに・・・ After things got calm down, this is the first thing I saw outside of my apt..


お隣りさんの庭もこんな風に。The yard of the next door neighbor...