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Sunday at the Tokyo Dome
Okay, so I spent Sunday afternoon sleeping in, and then an hour or two making another sign for my baseball art project, and then went off to the Tokyo Dome to meet up with Pau and watch the Fighters lose to the Giants. Sigh. On the other hand the people in front of us were really funny. A family of sorts (but not kids), and the one guy was a big Fighters fan, another guy was a big Giants fan, and they were really amused by us. The Fighters fan had just been to Sapporo and even had a pair of Takahito Kudoh's batting gloves, because he is friends with someone on staff there. So we chatted back and forth all game. Somewhere halfway through they gave us takoyaki for being amusing foreigners and so I gave them back Fighters cookies. In the end, we ran into them again leaving the stadium and the guy figured out that we live in Tokyo, so he was all like "Asobou?" Which of course doesn't translate properly in my head -- I thought he meant something about playing baseball, or was seeing the game just for fun, but Pau's like "No, he wants to hang out sometime and go drinking or whatever," so we exchanged phone numbers. Dunno if we'll ever call but hey, that was kind of funny.
Pau also gave me some lessons on Japanese culture. I really don't run into a lot of this stuff working at GEOS. I don't even have business cards. I really should rectify that sometime.
Anyway, now I can fully explain the baseball art project and my glitter glue emergency the other day. Basically, when I was in Sapporo, I saw how EVERY fan seemed to have signs for players that they held up. I thought that was really cool! But I wasn't sure how to make signs here... and I didn't want to carry a ton of them with me...
...so I came up with the SIGN BOOK. Bought a sketchbook at Daiso and each page is a sign for a different player. Some are in their specific colors, some I just made up. I so far have Hichori, Sledge, Kensuke, Inaba, Kudoh, and Shinji Takahashi. I'm gonna make one or two more before today's game (probly Naoto Inada and someone else) hopefully. This is great because I can carry one B4-size book and have like 12 posters!
Pictures under the cut:
After the game we went looking at baseball books and magazines at Yamashita. He opens a Hanshin magazine, and starts saying, "Okay, so you're going to study all the Tigers cheers for next time. Which one of my jerseys do you want to borrow? The black one, or this [points] 1948-style Hanshin jersey with the kanji on it?" I guess I will eventually have to put my time in at Hanshin games, having now dragged him to a bunch of Fighters stuff and even one Dragons game. But getting Tigers tickets is so DIFFICULT :(
EDIT @ 3pm: I've been doing laundry all afternoon. I was so happy that it was nice out and I could dry my stuff outside and NOW IT IS RAINING and I do not understand, because there is absolutely no rain on the forecast for southern Saitama today. Dammit!
Pau also gave me some lessons on Japanese culture. I really don't run into a lot of this stuff working at GEOS. I don't even have business cards. I really should rectify that sometime.
Anyway, now I can fully explain the baseball art project and my glitter glue emergency the other day. Basically, when I was in Sapporo, I saw how EVERY fan seemed to have signs for players that they held up. I thought that was really cool! But I wasn't sure how to make signs here... and I didn't want to carry a ton of them with me...
...so I came up with the SIGN BOOK. Bought a sketchbook at Daiso and each page is a sign for a different player. Some are in their specific colors, some I just made up. I so far have Hichori, Sledge, Kensuke, Inaba, Kudoh, and Shinji Takahashi. I'm gonna make one or two more before today's game (probly Naoto Inada and someone else) hopefully. This is great because I can carry one B4-size book and have like 12 posters!
Pictures under the cut:
After the game we went looking at baseball books and magazines at Yamashita. He opens a Hanshin magazine, and starts saying, "Okay, so you're going to study all the Tigers cheers for next time. Which one of my jerseys do you want to borrow? The black one, or this [points] 1948-style Hanshin jersey with the kanji on it?" I guess I will eventually have to put my time in at Hanshin games, having now dragged him to a bunch of Fighters stuff and even one Dragons game. But getting Tigers tickets is so DIFFICULT :(
EDIT @ 3pm: I've been doing laundry all afternoon. I was so happy that it was nice out and I could dry my stuff outside and NOW IT IS RAINING and I do not understand, because there is absolutely no rain on the forecast for southern Saitama today. Dammit!
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You can make meishi pretty quickly in Word or whatever you want, and I've heard that print shops will make cards if you bring in a pdf or Illustrator file.
1) You need some amazing baseball connection first, then you can put that on the card.
2) ???
3) Profit!
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