Monthly Archives: September 2010

Tokyo, Japan: A land of contradictions and endless potential. I arrived today with my wife and three boys after the 24-hour, door-to-door from Boston to our apartment in the Waseda section of Shinjuku. We suffered the long leg of the trip, Newark to Narita, on a 777 fully equipped with individual on-demand video and music capability (even in economy), but the food was still terrible. Like the Eva robot going through the waves in Brian Chan’s remake of Hokusai’s wave (see image to right), we are moving into uncharted waters, hallfway around the world, seeking adventure, and for me, some insights for my research on the emerging media worlds of social networking, mobile phones, and video games. Continue reading →