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About

Takahiro Goto is a filmmaker, installation artist and set designer, he has worked as a graphic artist, runner, script reader, and production designer so far, and he’s looking forward for a chance to be a sailor, fireman, or general mechanic. He currently resides in the UK, where he attends film school. He is 22 years old, and very human. As a member of humankind, he enjoys watching films, and succumbing to bouts of wanderlust.

Of course thats not all he does. He is constantly curious about the workings of the world, in a way he should have been a scientist or detective. He is into photography, writing, and drawing. He is into inventiveness, and would love to learn how to sail.

Works:

Top 15 Favourite Films:

Woman in the Dunes (1964) by Hiroshi Teshigahara, screenplay by Kobo Abe

Akira (1988) by Katsuhiro Ootomo

Bladerunner (1982) by Ridley Scott

Dreams (1990) by Akira Kurosawa

Flashdance (1983) by Adrian Lyne

Princess Mononoke (1997) by Hayao Miyazaki

Aliens (1986) by Ridley Scott

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) by Terry Gilliam

Alice (1988) by Jan Švankmajer

Three Colours White (1994) by Krzysztof Kieślowski

The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster

Once upon a time in the West (1968) by Sergio Leone

Tuvalu (1999) by Veit Helmer

Leon (1994) by Luc Besson

Workingmans Death (2005) by Michael Glawogger

Top 15 favourite books:

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Borribles Trilogy by Michael de Larrabeiti

Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Wind up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

For Esme with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger

Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto

The Birthday of the World by Ursula K Le Guin

Otherland by Tad Williams

The Ghost in the Shell by Masumune Shirow

Salamander by Thomas Warton

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Favourite Artists:

He has no favourite, with exception to Mariko Mori

Detective Masahiro 1

I am finalizing the screenplay for the film, but I haven’t shown it to anybody yet. When it comes to writing a script I reckon its better to show it to as many people as possible, they can cross reference your ideas, your grammer and whether its a good story or not.

I know this is bloody outrageous but If you don’t know what a screenplay is click here

My method is thus: I take a tape recorder and record what I hear from the movie I will make, using notes in front of me as guidance. From that I make a rather blurry and unsophisticated version of the screenplay which I put into writing later. Then I add detail.

VIDEOS OF JAPANESE STUFF

Artists in Psycho Buildings

Same again, here are the artists:

Atelier Bow-Wow, Michael Beutler, Los Carpinteros, Gelitin, Mike Nelson, Ernesto Neto, Tobias Putrih, Tomas Saraceno, Do-Ho Suh and Rachel Whiteread

The Artists Involved the ‘The Recent History of Writing and Drawing’

I forgot to add names of the artists :

A Recent History of Writing and Drawing: programmer / designer Jürg Lehni graphic designer Alex Rich, curated by design historian Emily King

also the site ‘field trip’ has information and links about Hektor
there are loads of pictures on THIS site, which also contains a lot of background information about the artists and the history of the project itself.

A Recent history of Writing and Drawing

On Sunday I met up with some friends from Brighton, they talked about football all the time so I just spent most of the pint watching the ongoing Arsenal vs Real Madrid on the HD TV’s surrounding me and curiously asking questions about the game. The match was called a ‘friendly’ match, because everyone was smiling and laughing and taking it really easy on the field.
Later in the day I went to the ICA to see what they were up to, there was an exhibition in the lower gallery called ‘A Recent History of Writing and Drawing’ and previous works by various people in the corridor to the left.

There were a few television sets lumped around the central area with lines and dots moving and changing shape on each screen, they all behaved differently some were more fizzy, whereas some were made to look like literal shapes floating about. These visual queues were all made of the relation between white and black lines and dots, so I thought it was referring to the use of lines and dots as mediums of shape and form.

A contraption on the right wall looked curiously like a wall drawing device, with two motors to control a large chalk attached to them via metal wire cables. I understood that this machine was called ‘Viktor’, and has a relative called ‘Hektor’. Here is a video of ‘Hektor’ working in an exhibition I don’t know the name of.

Unfortunately the machine had already drawn something when I got there, it looked primitive, which is what interested me. The lines were not bold, and not straight, but quite wriggly, and looked more as if it was drawn by human hands than by a machine. The drawing was of a geometric pattern, but due to the irregularities it looked more like a cave drawing of a rectangular spider web.

Near the entrance there was a desk with torch like devices. I watched two people use them and found that they were handheld laser printers that could print single lines of text onto various surfaces. I joined in the printing, When used it printed the line ‘IT’S ASTOR LA VISTA FOR JOSH’S GIRL’. The three of us tried printing on everything, the desk, the envelopes, the ticket, coins, even my hand was used as an experiment. (it was completely painless of course).

Here is a similar device used for industrial purposes developed by HP

the final attraction of this exhibition was a Graphtec Plotter Cutter connected to a computer. The plotter cutter is a printer that could also cut paper, it was cutting what seemed to be holes into large A2 sheets of paper. On the floor was a splurge of small white paper circles of various sizes. You typed text onto the computer, and the plotter cutter would cut the words as a series of dots. On the wall behind the printer were 9-12 of these prints hanging up saying things like ‘I’m Tired’, ‘Come in if the light is on’,etc.

Here is the same Graphtec model printer in use somewhere in China

Psycho Buildings

The Hayward gallery curated these atmospheric architecture pieces, there were many deep meanings in each piece regarding culture, materials, optical illusion, fractals, ‘mind space’, and other things. The speciality of the exhibition was that amidst the madness, there was a lot of space to walk around and it was more the environment around you as well as the structures.

I wasn’t able to sneak any photographs in but the guardian has a few

My Year

When I finished, I walked out of University completely dazed. I wasn’t very good at organizing my life, generally, but this time it was different. I was paralyzed, completely drained, mainly from a good kick up the arse. I’ve had many kicks up the arse before, but that last one was the mothers milk of all kicks in life. I felt like I had hit rock bottom.

For a month I had a cryogenically frozen image of what work I had done over the years plastered to the back of my eyelids. I wasn’t satisfied with my work, but I kicked back nevertheless to recover from the stresses of the final examinations in the last month. I had a hasty plan, which was to travel. So after doing some working experience on a film set for miss Martin as a runner, I went traveling. I did this with Julia, a very special friend, and we collected ideas on our travels. On the way we passed through the Venice Biennale, the Munster Skulptur Project, the Documenta 12 at Kassel, and the opening of 798 in Beijing.

We contracted a stomach bug called shigella in Nepal in Ulambari next to Biratnagar. Which made my experiences there tainted with the taste of vomit and porridge. However, we recovered enough before the traditional wedding of a new Limbu couple to document the unfolding events. Part of the wedding was to visit the holy mountain near Morang which is the supposed origin of all Limbu’s and believers of the Kirat religion. It was the closest thing to a spiritual experience that I knew of, for Julia and I and no doubt for the stupid stomach bugs.

During these travels I drew and wrote. I filmed a little and made an animation of an amoeba coming out of a beaker and putting the cork back in, and of course I took photographs. I wrote my project ideas down, then applied to Royal College of Art, got rejected, then applied to film school.

The memories of the art course were slowly fading. Buried under the mass of new imagery and memories, even those happy times became a dreamy memory to which I added and deleted details as I pleased. So at the film school, I pretended I wasn’t an artist, but a filmmaker. It made everything simpler for a while. Learning how to film in Digital HDV wasn’t the hardest thing in the world, and the straight forward nature of the craft made learning how to organize a cast and crew, the set and location, the props and effects, all simpler than I expected. I shot a first short film, called ‘The Adventurers’, which was something I was planning on doing back in the art course. People liked the film, but I thought it was shit.

I attended classes and eventually worked on a film set for a student who was also there. I used many of the skills obtained from the art course to build the sets, and I found I had to be flexible in my ideas on how to get the look the director wanted. I felt far from professional, since right next door, the real pros were building the sets to some hollywood film, films like Descent 2, and soon after that Prince of Persia, and Dorian Gray. My work got noticed thanks to some friends and I worked as the production designer on a short film called ‘The Ballet’, which was a story set in the 80’s, so I had to go to a prop warehouse to find props from the right time period.

Currently I am working on my next short film called ‘The Detective Masahiro’ for now.

Warning…The first post will not be televised (A Greeting)

Slightly disheveled, slightly sane, I won’t go into too much detail for this first post, the rest of the site’s purpose should appear eventually as it grows. I initially wanted to start a blog to contain information about the various creative advances (in every respect) I make over time, like an art journal. I held this idea in my head for a while. I thought about it two hours ago, I spent the first three minutes thinking ‘what a great idea!’, then the next hour and 57 minutes arguing whether or not I should start this blog on typeface, arguably a better blogging host, in look and usage, but with an added cost of about 4 pounds a month.

I thought, ‘why should I care? those 4 pounds aint even from my own pocket, but from my hardworking parents’. But I do, I spend their money everyday without even batting an eye, and hate it. Its immasculine, impotential, a slacker mentality, perhaps an artists mentality, definitely the young unemployed man’s lifestyle so far. In future I wish to rescue people, from fires perhaps.