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This is my third Digital Storytelling Assignment. This time I picked up the assignment from the design category. What I had to do was just making a postcard of my home town. Yoyogi is the place where I live now, which is located in the central Tokyo. I love this town for several reasons: It’s next to Shinjuku, the largest station in Tokyo and really convenient to go everywhere in Tokyo (Many train lines come in). There are a huge number of restaurants around the station which keep me exploring one after another (and it doesn’t seem to end.) On the other hand, the town is also surrounded by the natural environment. You can walk to Meijijingu, the largest shrine in Japan, and Yoyogi Park, which is also the largest in the central Tokyo. I put all these factors into the postcard so that the viewer would recognize the diversity of the town.

For making this postcard, I used Picasa for the first time. It’s very useful especially for this assignment since it has the feature to make a photo collage automatically from several photos. You can also retouch and adjust the photo image without knowing how to use it in detail. (It’s very simple!)

I hope you can also feel the atmosphere of my home town a bit from this postcard.

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All the photos used above are taken from Flickr via CC licensing.

Yoyogi Park by Vic Paredes
yoyogi st by TitoRo
Yoyogi-Park ”a Brushed Gold Saxophone Player”_061206_003 by haribote
Yoyogi Park in Spring by micah.e
Yamanote night train by sinkdd 
6-13-07 Yoyogi-1.jpg by abuckingham 
At the North End of Yoyogi Station by ykanazawa1999
@yoyogi by saotin

For more detail of the assignment: Greetings From DS106