Yatto! 休日

Friday, February 12th, 2010 in: News, Travel

Finally, a day off!

Hiro is going to Fukuoka for the weekend for another Hobby Fair, and to visit some business contacts and yo-y0 pals, which leaves us with the weekend wide open! The guys took Friday off to go see the new One Piece movie. I opted out, and instead found a cafe and worked through some of the articles on Framing Analysis that my friend Leo gave me before I left. Inspired by the dense academic tomes, I began to diagram the different ways a Social Movement Organization utilizes framing methods to draw interest and recruits, and then started to write my own little article about how framing analysis theory can be applied to graphic design and corporate identity branding. Exciting stuff!

Well, maybe not to you, but I sure felt productive getting absorbed into it. I was reminded of my meetings with Leo; we always have new and interesting ideas to discuss, and it always feels so groundbreaking, like we’re pressing theories forward into uncharted territory. I’ll have to send him an e-mail when I’ve pounded out my little article. Sometimes you find people in your life that challenge or stimulate you to expand your understanding of things. Don’t lose track of those people, they make life interesting.

That’s not actually why I sat down to write this post, but that’s what came out. I’ll just leave you with a shot from the kaiten-zushi place where we had dinner. Yum!

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