21+ HALLOWEEN PARTY in LITTLE TOKYO
Original artwork for digital flyer. (Please note all information on the flyer is subject to change.)
21+ Halloween Party in Little Tokyo
Who: 21+ peoples.
What: Halloween party.
Where: 410 Boyd St. (restaurant) in Little Tokyo located on 410 Boyd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013.
When: Saturday, October 31st, 2009.
Why: To raise funds for the community. All proceeds from this party will go to the following non-profits in Little Tokyo: the Little Tokyo Service Center, the Japanese American National Museum, and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center.
Final Flyer
Color Tests (‘4 Seasons’)
2 years agoOld School Shutter Shots: Nikon Nikkormat FT2
blast from the past: the nikon nikkormat ft2
so in an attempt to resurrect my photographic ambitions that were aroused during an introductory 9th grade photography class years ago, i retrieved our family’s nikkormat ft2 from home this summer and brought the lithe mechanized time cleaver to LA. recalling how to shoot film has been a ‘relearning-how-to-ride-a-bicycle’ experience. it has taken a bend of muscle memory recollection and manual book skimming to recall a blurry understanding of the non-digital.
the results, however, have been enjoyable. the straight forward, physicality of the nikkormat’s mechanics have facilitated a direct and strengthened connection with my shot subjects. the logical correlations that tie aperture and shutter speed with the captured image allow for an aggressive approach to photography: with greater understanding comes greater control.
with the space limitations of my apartment making the possibility of a darkroom a sobering (yet simultaneously convenient) impossibility, i’ve turned to the phenomenon of digital scanning to flip my negatives into the realm of positive imagery. upon departing to japan earlier this summer, an exchange student in our undergrad arch program bestowed me with his canon mp970 scanner-printer. unfortunately for me the machine was built and bought in japan, and so after much trial and error i have been able to interpret its hiragana/katakana/kanji directions enough to formulate a very narrowly prescribed method for scanning negatives.
whether this approach to blending the mechanical with digital proves synthetic or hypocritical to the spirit of the photos remains to been seen.
photos to come.
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Nikkei Student Union 2009-2010 T-Shirt Design Entry
Design entry for the Nikkei Student Union (NSU) at UCLA’s 2009-2010 membership t-shirt. NSU is a Japanese American interest organization that provides outreach, cultural awareness and community service, sports, social and leadership development programs to all who are interested in Japanese American culture and identity. For more information visit www.nikkeibruins.org.
Main Design
NSU ‘10 Logo Prototypes
Alternative Designs
2 years agoCHICAGO 09
Pictures from a recent trip to Chicago: July 2-6, 2009.
Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City
Raymond M. Hood and John Mead Howells’s Tribune Tower
Lake Point Tower
Chicago River at night
View of Chicago River from State Street Bridge
Daniel Burnham’s Reliance Building
Rem Koolhaas’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall
Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate
Frank Gehry’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Chicago’s Looming Loop
Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago
Holabird & Roche’s Chicago Building
Frank Lloyd Wright’s House
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Nathan G. Moore House
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple
For Your Safety: Do not attempt to travel to FLW’s Robie House on foot via the Green Line. It is not safe.
2 years agoLittle Tokyo Mapping Project
Image of Little Tokyo, ca. 2009. Map Source: Google Earth
Phase 1 of a project to digitally map Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo.
2 years agoWorld of Shape
Disneyland’s It’s A Small World. Photo taken 6.23.09
Disney is Anti-Form. It is unyielding in its reverence of the visually vernacular. It is a geometric celebration of the incised Thrill. A world that thrives in the ecstasy of pre-set fantasy, Disneyland stands as the modern apotheosis of Shape.
2 years agoGuide to Sunset: BLOCK 12
final spring quarter project for ucla’s architecture and urban design 133: modernism and the metropolis. spring 2009
prompt:
“Final Project - Guide to Sunset Boulevard: A Slice of LA
When Ed Ruscha shot the photos for Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) from a motorized camera mounted on the back of the pickup truck he was driving, he offered up a deadpan portrait of the boulevard. By capturing a landscape that would not typically merit a photograph, the two and a half mile stretch of Sunset seems ironically mesmerizing. Every Building presents the visible surface; this project asks you to dig deeply into two blocks of Sunset to render the rest. Like Ruscha’s photo series, our project holds encyclopedic pretensions.
For your final project, you will create a two-block (approx) “chapter” for our Guide to Sunset Boulevard. First, you will be assigned a unique segment of the Sunset Strip, somewhere between Doheny and the Hollywood Freeway. You will dissect your piece of Sunset, to tell at least five urban stories in words, diagrams, photos, and drawings. Below are lists of required and optional tools for the dissection. While you must analyze and document your piece of Sunset using the three required perspectives, you can choose any two categories for analysis for the optional tools so long as we have covered them in the course, or you’ve gotten my permission.
Required: historical transformation; design (urban, architectural, graphic); social life of the street (a la Koolhaas, Banham, Rudofsky, Jacobs)
Optional examples: overlapping regulatory and political maps; infrastructure (sewer, storm water, transit, electrical, etc); spatial typologies; suburban ideal/reality; spectacularism; other.
Each of the five stories about your part of Sunset can be documented in 1-2 pages (total: 7-8 pages), organized as a guidebook for the well-educated urbanist and architect, We will invent a simple graphic device to maintain consistency among all our chapters.”
