Departure for Los Angeles
I departed for Los Angeles from Narita, to attend the conference "SIGGRAPH 2008".
SIGGRAPH stands for "Special Interest Group on Computer GRAPHics", that is one of the special interest group (SIG) of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference held by SIGGRAPH is "The International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques", and the conference is also called "SIGGRAPH". SIGGRAPH is most famous and biggest event of computer graphics and interactive system in the world. This is a first time for me to attend and give presentations at SIGGRAPH.
My departure is earlier than other members of my laboratory, because of the reservation of the flight. On the air, I really enjoy reading the books. The photo at left is the rising sun taken from my seat. I love such a pastel, faint, and passing color of the sky.
Arriving the hotel, the taxi driver said "There are police cars, so we cannot go in front of the hotel. Please get off here." Indeed, there are two patrol cars. I was anxious about the safety around the hotels, and I hurry up to walk into the hotel. After checking-in, I was going to stroll through a street.
The patrol cars still stayed in front of the hotel. But I found a big light and some equipment. Yeah, that is not the incident but the shooting of films or something. The man wearing a shirt saturated with blood crossed on the street. Maybe he was shot by both of a gun in the story and a camera for the story :-) The staff said it's a shooting of TV drama, "Numbers", CBS. I felt happy to meet the scene just like Los Angeles.
That reminds me that my first travel abroad was west coast of United States, including Los Angeles. I really wanted to go to Hollywood and Universal Studio, because I eager to become a film director when I was high-school student. Since then, about 14 years passed. Now I am a researcher / teacher, and come again in Los Angeles. In this trip, I will recall my dreams when I was so young.
SIGGRAPH stands for "Special Interest Group on Computer GRAPHics", that is one of the special interest group (SIG) of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference held by SIGGRAPH is "The International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques", and the conference is also called "SIGGRAPH". SIGGRAPH is most famous and biggest event of computer graphics and interactive system in the world. This is a first time for me to attend and give presentations at SIGGRAPH.
My departure is earlier than other members of my laboratory, because of the reservation of the flight. On the air, I really enjoy reading the books. The photo at left is the rising sun taken from my seat. I love such a pastel, faint, and passing color of the sky.Arriving the hotel, the taxi driver said "There are police cars, so we cannot go in front of the hotel. Please get off here." Indeed, there are two patrol cars. I was anxious about the safety around the hotels, and I hurry up to walk into the hotel. After checking-in, I was going to stroll through a street.The patrol cars still stayed in front of the hotel. But I found a big light and some equipment. Yeah, that is not the incident but the shooting of films or something. The man wearing a shirt saturated with blood crossed on the street. Maybe he was shot by both of a gun in the story and a camera for the story :-) The staff said it's a shooting of TV drama, "Numbers", CBS. I felt happy to meet the scene just like Los Angeles.That reminds me that my first travel abroad was west coast of United States, including Los Angeles. I really wanted to go to Hollywood and Universal Studio, because I eager to become a film director when I was high-school student. Since then, about 14 years passed. Now I am a researcher / teacher, and come again in Los Angeles. In this trip, I will recall my dreams when I was so young. Activity Log | - | -