The Skytree finally opened yesterday after an eternity of manufactured hubbub. Just in case the protracted hype wasn't annoying enough, they sent around their mascot to do the morning show circuit today. Sorakara-chan ("from the sky") waved her arms and talked in a voice that was a combination of chalk on a blackboard and squeaking styrofoam. She answered pertinent questions from the announcers like, What's the best thing about the Skytree? and What's your favorite food? and Do you have a boyfriend? It gave me flashbacks to being introduced to endless classes of third graders.
A new intern at The Japan Times made this Storify collection about the opening. We think Storify has a lot of potential for quickly creating a multimedia survey of responses to an event. Frankly, none of the ones we've put up so far have gotten a ton of views. One thing that's cool about Storify is that the finished product can be embedded in other sites. I'm trying that here just to see what it looks like.
1 comment:
Loved the time lapse video.
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