My Blog Has Moved!

My blog has moved to kayanotokuzato.com/blog.
I have talked about that I got myself own domain and web hosting company, and transferring my blog site from this to new one would make my life easier to manage.
I haven't mastered this blog site yet and moved to new one. I will have difficult time using new one for a bit and I am sorry if this cause you any troubles.

There won't be any new post updates here after this, but you will see more in my new blog site.

Please come visit my new blog site!
kayanotokuzato.com/blog

Art Auction Event: Tsunami Shoe Gala and Auction

I am planning to attend "Tsunami Shoe Gala and Auction on Thursday, June 16.
This is a fundraiser event for people who have affected by earth quake and tsunami in Japan. The admission to this event is a $5 donation, but I am pretty sure you are more than welcome to donate more than this only if you could :)
The Tsunami Shoe Project was done by different artists including students from The Art Institute of Seattle.

I haven't seen them yet, but thses shoes are on display in the Student Activities Center at The Art Institute of Seattle if any one like to see these designed shoes.

"The bidding will begin in the weeks before the auction and culminate at the Tsunami Shoe Concert and Silent Auction at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (YCAC) on Thursday, June 16th at 7pm."
------ from Tsunami Shoe Gala and Auction Facebook page

"The Concert and Gala is sponsored by Utrecht and Blank Canvas. The Culinary Club is creating Japanese inspired appetizers. The sound for this event is being managed by The Audio Club."
------ from Tsunami Shoe Gala and Auction Facebook page

All donations will go to Japan Red Cross.
I am very exciting to see all those designed shoes by artists, and to help my home country, Japan.





One of the designed shoes photo I found in their facebook site. There are not too many photos yet, but I'll go ask if I could take more pictures of them at Student Activities Center and post here.

Microsite Project for Addiction ~part1~

I have posted some of my addiction series of photography in my blog (links are bottom of this post).
Today, I am finally starting to talk about my microsite project using those images. My client for this project is AddictionInfo.org and this micro site is suppose to link from their homepage. This microsite should help people to aware of addictions visually and specially trying to get attention from younger audience to think about them.

Top Image is screen shot of what I have for the first page now, but it will change some and I will be posting interactive version of the microsite here soon.


Some of my sketches and thoughts:

From Wikipedia:
"A microsite, also known as a minisite or weblet, is an Internet web design term referring to an individual web page or cluster of pages which are meant to function as an auxiliary supplement to a primary website. The microsite's main landing page most likely has its own domain name or subdomain."

Related blog post:
Photography for My Microsite Project ~part1~
Photography for My Microsite Project ~part2~

My First Web Hosting Company and Domain

Do you remember about my previous post "Web Hosting Services Shopping " I was talking about looking for my first Web hosting company?

I was telling myself "I am going to purchase one today!" for few days, and I finally got one this past Monday. My last three possible companies were DreamHost, BlueHost, and FatCow, and I decided to go for FatCow. It had best deal (cheapest cost) and had good review as other two. I also got response from web design club member saying he has been using FatCow for years and he really likes it.

I also got my very first own domain.
My portfolio website address will be: kayanotokuzato.com

This site is not ready yet, but will be up shortly. I am using Blogspot (this blog) right now, but soon everything will be transferred to kayanotokuzato.com/blog for good. You can already use my new blog site, but I'm still using here for now because I am not sure how to use new one quiet yet. I will let you know when I stop using here, and make sure to leave my new links here again.





If anyone is interested in the site:
FatCow
http://www.fatcow.com

Make sure that they have a deal!
FatCow is also eco-friendly company that hosted by 100% wind energy!

Visiting POP and Big Fish

Group of Web and Interactive students including myself visited design farm "POP" and game company "Big Fish" today.
It was really inspiring to see real work places and listing and communicating with people who are very much excited about what they do for their living. I really like to thank all of these people who made this opportunities today. Top photo is my group at POP.

www.bigfishgames.com

http://www.pop.us/

Photography: Food is art too 3 & 4

This is continuous posting from "Photography: Food is art too 1 & 2". They are part of food image gallery I am working on.


Related posts:
1. Photography: Food is art too 1 & 2
2. Photography: Food is art too 3 & 4
.....more to come

Website for Non-profit Organization

http://lifelongbreakfast.org

I made website for non-profit organization call Lifelong AIDS Alliance that is located in Capital Hill area of Seattle Washington. It is great organization that is "committed to preventing the spread of HIV, and to providing practical support services and advocating for those whose lives are affected by HIV and AIDS."

This was Annual Benefit Breakfast event they started last year and I am so glad I could help them create this website for the event. 2011 event was in past April, so some of buttons on the website may not function right now (I took some links out, so people cannot fill some of forms), but this site is still available if you are interested in visiting there. This was done a little while ago and it is my very first website I worked start to finish, so I know there are so many parts need to be fixed in the site. I am still learning:)