Happy New Year! Wishing you a happy, healthy & prosperous 2008!
Another year has gone by…most of it a blur. Thankfully my family and myself are healthy and busy…too busy. But that is good, keeps us out of trouble.
I am still working at the design studio. This month the city opens a new creative center, a kind of SoHo for creative business. And in February is the annual design festival here. Promises to be good with guests like industrial designer Michael Young, character & Flash design company FuriFuri company and more. Now only if we can survive the preparation of it! so much to do…so little time.
New year’s resolutions include every resolution I didn’t honor last year – write more! draw more! travel more! write more! and write more! did I say write more?
May this year be great. My thoughts are always with you.
明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。
また１年があっと言う間に終わりました。ありがたく、家族皆が健康的で充実な仕事をしています。忙しい…忙しすぎ…だがそれが良い。暇だと悪いことをしちゃうからだ。
私はまだデザイン会社で勤めて、また今月に市が新しいクリエーティブセンターを開館します。デザインなどのクリエーティブ産業のためのSOHO見たいな施設です。そして２月にまた毎年行うデザインフェスティバル、SCVF,があります。今年も面白そう、工業デザイナーマイケルヤングやキャラクターデザインのフリフリカンパニーなどが来てくれます。ただ準備で疲れすぎてしまうことが心配です。やることがいっぱい、時間がない！
今年、も、もっと書くように、もっと描くように、もっと旅するように、もっと書くように（何回も言わないと…）頑張ります。
皆さん、今年がとても良い年になりますように。それが一番の願いです。
これからもよろしくお願いします。
One thing about volunteering as a translator for a festival is that you don’t get to see much of the festival yourself. It doesn’t bother me too much as there are literally tens of thousands of spectators and performances are hard to see without any prep. Friday there were more than 85,000 people and on Saturday 65,000! Today is the final day so who knows how many will come. Daidogei has truly become a huge festival with people coming from all over Japan and even from overseas.
But…while performances get harder to see there is always the food. Last year’s beloved Nathans is not here but on the second day a new favorite was found.
Nomado Coffee Car
Since the second day of the festival, my breakfast has consisted of their coffee and chocolate muffin. Lots of rich, dark chocolate…yum!! The photo above also has their baked pudding which is not quite as sinful as the muffin but real good.
As it is the last day, I’ll try to break away from just food and get a photo of a performance…but there is this great gyro place…..
food! Of course, one of the first stops on any outing to the Daidogei festival is the World Caravan. A collection of food stalls selling food from around the world…Chinese, Thai, Russian, Korean and more…Oh, mustn’t forget the Gyros!
My first taste of the global tour is Chinese gyoza.
Though, the stall I was looking most forward to is not here..Nathans Hot Dogs. A daily staple at last year’s festival, the big yellow parasol is sorely missed.
Another year has flown by and I am again volunteering for one of Shizuoka’s largest festivals – Daidogei World Cup in Shizuoka. A street performance art festival, it brings in perfomers from around the world.
Let’s see if I can keep updating the blog about this festival which runs from Nov. 2 – 5th. Reports about the festival in English can also be read on the festival’s website. (click the logo below)
Spend three hours trying to find a template I like. Without any luck.
Guess there is no easy way around it. Gotta make my own. In the meantime, revert back to the classics and put up content. But first, one must eat lunch….
