The Assignment:  was looking through the ds106 assignments to find one I could do when I discovered this one. Its instructions are:

Find your name in the environment around you. Look for your first name, parts of your first name, or even the individual letters that make up your name in the environment around you. Take photos and crop them together. Share. Enjoy!

The Process/Story: I was initially going to pass it over, though, because I know I’m not going to find my name anywhere in Tokyo. However, I happened to look at an example done by someone else, and found that I could crop out pictures and Photoshop the individual letters together too. So I thought this would be fun to see if I could find all the letters for my name around Tokyo and decided to give this one a try. I followed the same rule as Candice as used only one letter from each picture I took, cropping and enlarging them when necessary. Afterwards, I placed them next to each other and saved the whole thing as a PNG.

Here is where each picture I got the letters was taken:

J- A sign in Shinjuku Station.

E- A banner advertising for AEON’s English teaching school.

R- A Baskin Robbins on the 2nd floor of the Tokyo Tower.

E- The front sign of the Tower Records music store in Shibuya.

M- A Family Mart convenience store on the way to school, coming from Tamachi Station.

Y- The English screen on the Yamanote line, saying the next stop is Yoyogi.

S- A sign on the inside of Shibuya 109.

A- The LAWSON convenience store next to TUJ.

U- A CLUB SEGA location in Akihabara.

E- The front sign for Ozeki supermarket in Ontakesan.

R- The front sign for “Tokyu Store” in Yukigaya-otsuka.

I enjoyed going all over the place to take these pictures. I find it really interesting how much English is used on signs in Tokyo, and feel that when I see this picture forming my name that I am officially a part of the city now.