Digital Hollywood

August 26th, 2008 | Leave a comment

This is Tomo Sugiyama, the President of Digital Hollywood University; every inch the Japanese digital guru.

I interviewed him last week for a story on digital content (games, TV, cellphone content etc). Sugiyama was at MIT in the 1980s with Nicholas Negroponte, which is a pretty cool IT credential. When he came back to [...]

August 26th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Akihabara tour

August 17th, 2008 | Leave a comment

More photos from “otaku Mecca” Akihabara. Last week I took a tour organized by a startup called GI Jane. I was surprised to see so many foreigners on the streets. I’m not sure where these guys were from (maybe Italy?) but they certainly looked the part.

I caught them outside the Radio Kaikan which is probably [...]

August 17th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: my photos | Leave a comment

apologies to Moriyama Daido

August 13th, 2008 | Leave a comment

I was back on the otaku trail yesterday, taking photos on an Akihabara tour. (Thank to Jane of GI Jane!)

This is a photo my tireless guide leading me down a side-street to a tiny Shinto shrine hidden between the electronics shops and canned-oden vending machines.

Moriyama Daido fans sense something a little familiar. [...]

August 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: my photos | Leave a comment