Comics and blog by Evangeline Neo, Singapore comic artist.
CoFesta Day 3: Digital Contents Expo 2013
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Ok, this is going to be a very techie post. We started day three with an early morning tour of Digital Contents Expo held at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation（日本科学未来館）, which is located in Odaiba area on 24th Oct. We got to enter before it was open to public and the first exhibit was this virtual reality flight experience:
Everyone who tried it felt it was very real, as if you're really swinging in the air! I wanted to try it but I was worried about my half-digested breakfast… (Developer: http://www.solidray.co.jp) The pink hair model in the video is our Singapore celebrity blogger Xiaxue.
We were also introduced to this really cool and CUTE presentation of a virtual reality chick, which can cast a shadow and jump on actual physical obstacles!!! You can find out more about this lab here (in Japanese only): http://www.nae-lab.org
This one is a special filter lens that allows you to see another side of the image.
Yes! Love the muscles and anatomy!!! (because I'm an artist)
These sensors could react to heat so the fur could feel "real" or "alive".
They tried to demonstrate the strength of this structure and proposed it for architecture. But I was more interested to see if we could lie on it to test its strength and practicality :P
Wanted to know what this robot was doing but they were in a middle of an interview.
You could shake hand with Miku in virtual reality… well… for otaku?
And this one makes you believe that endless amount of karaage (fried chicken) were coming out of your hands! (lll ￣∀￣)...
We were finally at the end of the tour and landed up at an atrium.
We dashed to lie down on these sofas to look at the digital globe above, but later realised that we had to take off our shoes… oops, sorry!!!
That's it for my "most educational tour" in CoFesta. If you had missed my previous blog posts about my CoFesta experience, here they are!!! Of course, there are a few more more to come…so much backlog...
Because my photo of the markers received so many shares, I realised that many artists are interested about the markers and perhaps want to know where to buy them from. Hence I wrote this guide for artists to shop in COPIC heaven aka Tokyo. ★ UPDATE NOV 2017: Please refer to my new article for latest updates on COPIC marker shopping! >>> Ultimate Guide to Copic marker shopping in Tokyo, Japan
This post has nothing to do with Japan, except that I have the tendency to fall sick during long Japanese holidays like year end and golden week. So with weak Japanese medicine not working, and even with kiwis and lemon honey drink all failing, I resorted to my friend's advice: coke and ginger . It sounded unusual so I googled and found the recipe. Amazingly, many people swear that it works wonder to cure their coughs and sore throats, so I decided to try out of desperation because I had already been coughing for four days and four nights. Preparation: Put a can of coke (around 350ml) and sliced ginger into a pot and bring to boil, simmer for 10 mins. You can either add lemon when it was simmering or squeezed lemon juice after you pour into your mug. *I couldn't get old ginger from my Japanese supermarket so I used young ginger that was not so spicy. Verdict: I couldn't believe it, but it tasted rather good! Even my friend who disliked ginger said this remedy taste...
Because my previous guide "Where to buy COPIC markers in Tokyo", was an all-time hit with 30,000 page views, I decided to do an updated version for all illustrators who are planning to buy COPIC markers in Tokyo.
Science is always cool no matter who you are :D
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