Today I’m in Tokyo, well Ive been here for just over 24 hours now and its pretty exciting to be in such an iconic city. When I arrived midday yesterday I got out the car to see the most amazing site of the Cherry-blossom trees in bloom around the place i was staying, in-fact I was after told this happens every year for only about 2 weeks and they’re in bloom everywhere! Its an amazing site and I’ve been so lucky to see it!
Getting here was a bit of a mission with 3 flights to catch and connections with no room for error. 06.00 leave the house and get to Newcastle airport, fly to Heathrow land at 11:00 and next flight to Seoul at 12:00. When i landed in Seoul, about 12 hours later I had to arrange to get my bags transferred from the BA flight onto the Korean air flight, which took a lot longer than expected. Eventually I made it to the gate with 5mins to spare, first world problems indeed…….
The reason I’m out here is to Prep the video kit for the Japanese version of the stage show Les Miserable. The Kit is being provided locally but needs to be prepared and all the Catalyst commands set correctly to talk to the corresponding equipment. I thought this was straight forward but now I can understand why Fiftynine-Productions sent me out. The Japanese Magnux, who are providing the kit and support for the tour have done a great job getting all the kit together and was plugged up perfectly when I arrived today but i guess a few things were lost in translation Jon’s (Who I’m prepping the kit for) specifications. There were a few racking issues and miss-understandings of things which in hindsight seem obvious now but at the end of today were in a good place ready to crack on with geeky stuff like setting up the ethernet commbs between Catalyst the Kramer switcher and Avitec Multiview. Its been a hard but fun day, and also what is prety cool is that were rehersing at Toho studios the place where Godzilla was made! Ace!!
I forgot to buy milk this morning when i went to the shop to buy some bits and pieces for my stay. I was telling this to my translator Shoko who has been an absolute godsend today and she was saying that non of the milk in Japan seems to be labelled in english so english speaking visitors can never tell what kind they’re buying. So, for the first time in my life I was given help to buy milk, there were so may variaties, and in the end i went for semi-skimmed, (i think)!
24 hours in and I really like Tokyo, everyone is so polite, theres allot of work to be done in my two remaining days here but but it should be fun with the bunch of people I’m with!
Aw, group hug, ha!