I have thought that star watching looks so hard works.
It's required to carry a heavy expensive telescope and
difficult equipments, go on sleepy midnight ways to country side,
and peer over a Planisphere for hours and hours.

But I didn't know that we could do star watching at anyplace,
even if we were in downtown area.
And today, there is good Planisphere Apps for iPhone and iPad
to find stars easily.

Finally, I got a small telescope and put iPhone on it
to take star's pictures.



I used Borg's Pencil Borg(175mm f/7) telescope and Vixen's LV5mm eyepiece.
In the case, 35x telescopic image was shown by the system.
I tried to see the moon to test it.



In general, Such as the high power but small telescope projects darker image.
But iPhone 4's back illuminated sensor is proof a dark picture in such as the darker environment.

And I arrived at the beautiful moon!



I used sharpness filter for the image, but it contain enough resolution
to see the moon's cratered details.


Tomytec - Borg: Pencil Borg 25
http://www.tomytec.co.jp/borg/products/detail/summary/9/1

I tried to make DOF(depth of field) Adapter and put iPhone 4 on it
to defocus background images.

DOF Filter is darker filter and It can't use for a sensitive camera.
But iPhone 4 have backside illumination sensor,
it's very tough for such as the darker conditions.



And I could take LOMO like old cinema image by iPhone 4.



The Movie is here.



Today, We have DSLR Camera Movie and we can get
high quality image with less effort. I couldn't find
any of the reason to use iPhone 4 on DOF Adapter ;-)

I found that iPhone's Retina Display is best Electronic View Finder
to adjust Manual Focus, I have ever seen!
I need manual focus function on iPhone 4.

Fractal graphic evokes a fundamental beauty in a natural shapes.
Basically, simply repeated graphics make beautiful geometry.

Context Free is such as the 2D geometric shapes drawing software.
http://www.contextfreeart.org/
And in 3DCG, try "Structure Synth".
http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/

In 3DCG Animation or 4D world,
Quartz composer is one of the best software, I think.

Quartz composer is development tool in Mac OSX User Interface Programming.
But it's often used for Visual making tool for VJ's.

It's very easy to use. The functions is appear visualy in the window.
And patch each function box to make the graphic flows.
You can make interesting 2D/3D Animations only patch it.

If you want to make more complexity animation,
you can use javascript and OpenGL Shading Language(GLSL).

And the Quartz Composer tool is free for Mac OSX User!
If you have OSX Update Disc, Install the Development tools,
and search it in the "Developer" folder.


I made the demo and tutorial movies.






The below link is for a 4DCG animation by Quartz composer.
http://www.subblue.com/blog/2009/9/20/quaternion_julia

But I can't understand enough for The 4D world.
The world is a wide place :)

Last month,My friend gave me a chance to make a sign board for their Wedding Reception.

In those cases, It's often used Calligraphy hand writting
or such as the hand made art.

I thought the couple (especially, the groom) had
a well balanced life. And they'll grow up with a lot of the trying.
I used algorithmic generated CG by "Structure Synth" software
to express them.

It's preset data "tree".






Some of the pattern,





and layouted.



Signboard at the Gate




For the entrance,
I putted the wings into acrylic resin box with a lot of the feather.
In my story, the lovely wings was formed by the feathers :-)




Next time, I want to make a funiture with such as the algorithmic generated design.


Structure Synth
http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/

I showed my chair at Aoyama yet.
And tomorrow, 17th June, is the party day.
Don't miss it :-)

Kuroda-san reported the event,
SOON@Lexington Aoyama part-1. ( Written in Japanese )
Let's see it if you can't come the exhibition.

JDN: SOON@Lexington Aoyama part-1 Report
http://www.japandesign.ne.jp/HTM/REPORT/nippon_kagu/32/index2.html

My next exhibiting is in Filo di Seta MILANO brand shop at Kotto-street, Aoyama.
The exhibition "SOON@Lexington Aoyama " is produced by Sachio Hihara.
It will be continued to January 2009, for 6 months.

The exhibition is separated in 6 parts
and change the exhibitor at each part.
I'm participating the first part started at last week end.

Now I'm showing two chairs, share chair 05 (the first chair) and 06 (large chair).
http://hgc.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2007-11-27

The party will be at 17 June. Come on!








It's been a pleasure to join with such as famous genius designers:-)



Kenichiro Oomori
http://www.diana.dti.ne.jp/ken-o/e.htm


Isamu Tokizono
http://www.brave-design.com/


Atsushi Nogimura
http://www.geocities.jp/nogimuracompany/


Sachio Hihara
http://www.sachio.jp/



Filo di Seta
http://www.world.co.jp/brand/filodiseta.html


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Last sunday, I took a exhibition space at GEISAI MUSEUM2.
GEISAI is Japanese Art event produced by Takashi Murakami, Contemporary artist.
It was expected to attract about 10 thousand visitors.

The Event have no audition for the exhibiting.
Any you can join the event, even pay the booth charge.
The feature make it as a asian chaotic atmosphere, not looks like a gallery.


My exhibits was here,

Balloon Screen :
Projected Video image to the inside of the layerd Balloon, by LED Light Video Projector

share chair 07 :
That's same chair at last year's Tokyo Designer's week.
But last sunday, I focused to the Video Screen function
to be felt the experience to sit down at the video image.

LEGO VJ :
Generated Video image at then and there by LEGO brick and small camera.




That was the first time to exhibit such as media oriented works for me.
And the system was not working well. I lost the exhibiting time for the maintenance.
But I could enjoy.

BTW, One of the Event's feature was The audition.
They place exhibitors in the orders by their judgements, and show us our each ranks.
My lank is 240/600. Not bad, but not good...

I entered GEISAI Art Event, instead of Tokyo Designer's Week interior exhibition.
In This year, I'll not make new chair but I make more media using things.

My first GEISAI was at last sunday. ( sorry, already ended. )
And next Event GEISAI #11 willl be at september,14 .
Don't miss the next!

This is Balloon Screen Test Movie.
I tryed to project the video image behind the Balloon to inside.






GEISAI.net
http://www2.geisai.net/

I tried to take pictures of the transformation.

This is my chair, last year's share chair 06.

and the movie is here.
I was tired that's very heavy...

Incidentally, the picture is share chair 05 transformation
in the year before last. Let's see the difference.

This week, I showed my new transformable chair "share chair"
at Zero Exhibition in Tokyo Designer's Week.
Thank your comming to my demonstration space.

When you use the chair, you share your place and feeling
with your lovely people by the impressive interaction.
That's my concept.

And The new model have light up capable function.
You can put a light, Video projector and home planetarium inside the chair
to project the light to the cover. you can sit down at the light.

In the picture, I put Video projector with fisheye lenz
into the chair to project video images from the inside of the chair.
And I used PS3 to play the video.

That's the transforming Demo. Thank you and Enjoy!