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October Beer and Blog meetup

Pietro Zuco — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:50:39 +0000

Thanks to Steve to organize one more Beer and Blog in October.

Everybody drinking beer and talking about blogs…

Drunk mode picture…

Picture by Steve Nagata. This is a scientific experiment to check human behavior under the exposure of augmented reality iPhone applications ;-)

Social Media Day – Tokyo – 2010

Pietro Zuco — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:49:20 +0000

Some pictures of the Social Media Day organized at Tokyo on June 30th. At the same time, in many other cities in the world, social media enthusiasts celebrated the upcoming changes that will transform the way we live.
That day represents the continue movement and desire of people to communicate, get in contact, and specially to be free to share information and ideas. It was a long journey, not ended yet, which started from the paintings in primitive carves, moved to the creation of characters, rules of grammar, books, printing machines, radio, tv and now internet. A long journey, better understood as a long war against the powers that always tried to control, silence, stop and put humanity back to darkness. Those powers will never succeed and the prove is here, just right now, that I’m writing whatever I want and you are free to read it or close this page.
Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Flickr, and many others are just the beginning. Let’s participate in this changes, let’s be protagonists of the causes that will lead the effects for a better environment of free and open communication.

Some pics:

The entire set of pics here

Party at Omotesando #party-pics

Pietro Zuco — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:41:00 +0000

I received and invitation from @jonnyli to join a funny party in Omotesando.

@tangerinejp

@Oren_The_Red

CGM Night – February 2010

Pietro Zuco — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:17:24 +0000

Some pictures of CGM Night organized by Danny Choo that took place at Japanese Red Cross Society facility Akiba:F

Amano Ai-chan

Nekomimi

The three guys! From left: Peter Van der Weeen, Rob Van Nylen, Andrew Shuttleworth

Oren in Lady Gaga style ^^;

Big brother was watching us…
This is the “eye” created by Steve Nagata that broadcasted the event. Check Steve’s channel at USTREAM

Look at previous events:
CGM Night December 2009
CGM Night Episode #5

Seijin Shiki + Dannychoo + a day in Shibuya

Pietro Zuco — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:44:52 +0000

Coming of Age Day (成人の日) is a celebration for young ladies and gentlemen, for the day that they become “adults”. Many cultures in the world have similar celebrations and Japan as well. It was nice to see all those young ladies with their kimono :)

That day, my friend Danny Choo took the occasion to organize a meetup for a photoshot of the girls and then a photowalk around Shibuya

They are already 20 and supposedly adults. How many things do they already know about life?

Do you notice something unusual? There is a Storm trooper in the ceremony! ^^;

The Mac store in Shibuya is trying to sell iPhones to Stormtroopers as well.

Danny with two Guardian Angels in Shibuya.

There was also a small show. I like the gear in the picture on the left. It’s a flying camera :)
It was hard to catch the chair, I missed the first one and then I did as much as I could to be ready to catch the second one.

Check also the pictures of:

@stevenagata, Photoset on Flickr

@iMorpheus, Photoset on Flickr

@tamegoeswild, Photoset on Flickr

@KyleHase, Photoset on Flickr

CGM December 2009

Pietro Zuco — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:14:44 +0000

December 2nd was the last CGM of this year. Thanks to Danny Choo and Andrew Shuttleworth to make it possible.
It was a great opportunity to meet funny, interesting and smart people.

Some pictures:

Jonny Li and Amano Ai-chan

Ai-chan in Maid Mirai cosplay

Ai-chan with Danny’s book “otacool”

Here Jo Anseeuw with an amazing equipment.

Danny tired after a day of heavy work! :)

Twitter of some of the participants to the event:

@dannychoo
@stevenagata
@mikamika59
@lhuga
@tangerinejp
@shibuya246
@ashuttleworth
@iMorpheus
@FrankieBit
@kenleewrites
@KyleHase
@chrisgaunt

We missed: @papadimitriou

More info at:

Steve Nagata’s blog
Shibuya246
lhuga

Tokyo Good Ideas Salon 2009

Pietro Zuco — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:22:45 +0000

Last Tuesday 20th it took place the Tokyo Good Ideas Salon 2009. It was a really interesting event where many forward-thinkers and influencers shared ideas about how to improve our possibilities to make this a better world to live. The event counted with the participation of many smart personalities:

Peter Rojas – Technology Guru, Founder at gdgt, Engadget and Gizmodo
Marc Alt – Green Visionary, Founder at Marc Alt + Partners
Mark Dytham – Creative Catalyst, Partner at Klein Dytham architecture, and Founder of Pecha Kucha
Rie Azuma – Lifestyle Architect, Azuma Architecture
Danny Choo – Japan Sub-Culture Authority, Mirai Inc., dannychoo.com
Hiromi Matsubara – Green Media Activist, Co-founder, Greenz.jp
Piers Fawkes – Trends Expert, Founder at PSFK (moderator)

Pauline Kee from Nissan on the left picture, she was really nice to talk with and a really smart lady. On the right pic we can see Steve improving his skills with his Sony cam.

Jonny Li on the left picture. He was really happy to have all that Italian wine available for free ^^; on the right picture, we have Mika Ueno playing with her iPhone. As always, she was full of energy.

Danny Choo talking at the event.

Marc Alt, Peter Rojas, and Mark Dytham

Eido Inoue from Google, Danny Choo and Ken Lee

Ken Lee and Eido Inoue

Coming back from the event we found these nice girls just dressing so funny.

Tweetup Tokyo 2009

Pietro Zuco — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:09:05 +0000

Tonight! It was the Tweetup Tokyo 2009 at Ebisu (Tokyo) near the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography where an exposition of Keizo Kitajima is getting place. A nice and great event with the participation of Biz Stone (@biz) Co-founder of Twitter, Inc. and many people from the internet, blogging and technology community in Tokyo, like my friends Danny Choo (@dannychoo) and Steve Nagata (@stevenagata)^^;
They explained the growth of twitter in Japan, just as a phenomenon compared to other countries, and how it’s influencing the way Japanese interact in internet.

I love this kind of events specially for the great mix of people that you can find there. There are IT guys, artists, photographers, journalists, writers, hard beer drinkers, everything. It’s a mix but it’s creative.

Biz Stone talking at the initial presentation.

Danny trying to read from his helmet!

Kohta Awano (@awano) from Tokyo MX

People, people…

Again Biz Stone talking at the final presentation.

Some funny guys getting drunk ^^;

Danny and two special ladies.

Left @tangerinejp and @mikamika59

Finally two shots of Danny and Steve with his new HD Sony cam ^^;

HUOVA Living Art

Pietro Zuco — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:43:42 +0000

Last Friday I went to the HUOVA living art event. It was pretty interesting and a lot of cool people were there.
The concept is simple, just a painting in 20 minutes in front of a public. Creating just in the moment, living art is what happened that day.
It was located in Shibuya, the young district of Tokyo in an old and surrealist building.

HOUVA web Page

Artists:

Doppel ドッペル
 Houxo Que ホウコォキュウ
 Mustone マストワン

Some pictures of the event:

A Photographer in action.

Yuruyuru night

Pietro Zuco — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:32:07 +0000

Yesterday I got the information from Danny Choo about an event, and I went to A971 cafe for a press event, the Good Design Expo in collaboration with YuruYuru Gadget Night.

There was a lot of people and it was pretty hot. Well I was sweating, maybe it was just me, anyway it was really crowded.

Excellent free food for everybody!

And free drinks also! I took 4 Carlsberg and one glass of red wine. I have to admit that at the end I had some alcoholic happy feeling ^^;

This is a really nice gadget. It’s Chumby an internet radio player, digital picture frame, alarm clock and more. It’s based on Linux. An all in one gadget!

Here we can see Steve. He is just an amazing guy. Maybe you cannot see it in the picture, but he had a bag full of electronic gadgets and a really cool combination. He was taking pictures and intermediately uploaded to his flickr account Then he plugged his own Chumby with a portable power source and sharing his emobile connection with a wireless router the Chumby updated constantly with his uploads. Everything he did was just live at a real time!

A nice girl with her personalized poken. I have to log in in my poken account and check her name ;)

Eye-Fi memory cards was also there. Wireless SSD cards. Everything you save in it will be automatically transfered. Nice to get live content uploaded.

This is a cool gadget. You can look at it as a TV. It reads the feed from the web and shows twitter updates, weather updates and so forth. Its design comes from the company of the picture bellow:

Rana Design

And finally this is Danny’s daughter: Mirai Figma. She was that night posing for the photographers.