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Want to wow your clients with Japan itineraries they've never seen on Instagram?If you're looking to send your clients somewhere special in Japan, this episode is packed with unique, firsthand experiences that go far beyond Tokyo and Kyoto. I'm joined by Harriett Bougher from JNTO, Adam Burke from Scenic, and Ruth Bullock from AH Travel Associates, three seasoned travel experts who recently explored regional Japan.You'll hear about hidden gems like Takachiho Gorge, a 1760s sake distillery, a luxury ryokan with private onsens, and island-hopping in Setouchi. We talk traditional dance, hands-on experiences like bonsai-making, temple stays, and cruising Japan's inland sea, and why these regional experiences are perfect for luxury travellers.You'll also walk away with practical tips for booking unforgettable itineraries outside the big cities, plus upcoming training dates to help you sell Japan with confidence.Which part of regional Japan would you love to explore: the hot springs, the food, or the quiet beauty of the countryside?Let me know your answer and connect with me on LinkedIn, I'd love to hear what inspired you from this episode.References Mentioned in the Show:Yamamura Sake Distillery, TakamoriTakamori Spring Water Tunnel ParkYufuin no Mori scenic trainKumamoto Castle and Suizenji GardenSetouchi region (including Shodoshima and Naoshima islands)Roka Ryokan, NaoshimaJNTOJNTO Webinars (First: 19 June – Japan 101)JNTO B2B newsletter for agent updatesJNTO Roadshows:26 August – Melbourne25 August – Sydney28 August – AucklandConnect with Harriet, Adam and Ruth:Harriet Bowger on LinkedInAdam Burke on LinkedInRuth Bullock on LinkedInConnect with Destination Webinars:Charlie Trevena LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlietrevena/ Charlie's Email: charlie@destinationwebinars.com.au Destination Webinars Library: https://www.destinationwebinars.com.au/webinar-library/ Destination Webinars Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/destinationwebinars Destination Webinars LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.comThanks so much for listening, I love hearing feedback from travel agents about these short and sweet training updates, and if you have any requests let me know and I'll try and get them on! Email or DM me on LinkedIn anytime:charlie@destinationwebinars.com.auhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charlietrevena/Cheers, Charlie

Etiquette, manners, and beyond! This week, Nick and Leah are enjoying a well-deserved break, but they'll be back soon with an all-new episode. In the meantime, here's one of their favorite episodes from the archives in which they tackle sending signals in restaurants with cutlery, going to art gallery openings, flushing dog poop down toilets, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a hand-written thank you note if we could.) Have a question for us? Call or text (267) CALL-RBW or visit ask.wyrbw.com EPISODE CONTENTS AMUSE-BOUCHE: Signals you can send with your cutlery A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Art galleries QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: How do I break the news to my sister and best friend that I can't attend their weddings? What do I do about a group gift that's going over budget? How do I stop my friend who is flushing dog poop down my toilet? VENT OR REPENT: Unexpected houseguests, Asking for receipts CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Happy anniversary, A nice review THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW Incorrect Table Etiquette Infographic Breakfast TV (Toronto): "Can you read this cutlery etiquette language?" Naoshima, Japan Mona (Museum of Old and New Art) in Hobart Venice Biennale NY Times: "How Not To Look Like A Dope In an Art Gallery" (1997) EPA "Pick Up After Your Pet" Brochure (PDF) NYC Department of Sanitation Dog Laws YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO... Support our show through Patreon Subscribe and rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts Call, text, or email us your questions Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter Visit our official website Sign up for our newsletter Buy some fabulous official merchandise CREDITS Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton Theme Music: Rob Paravonian TRANSCRIPT Episode 108 THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR: INCOGNI Use promo code WYRBW at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/wyrbw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since publishing his debut essay collection—Video Night in Kathmandu, featuring far-flung reportage from 10 Asian countries—in 1988, the prolific travel writer Pico Iyer has gone on to write more than a dozen books exploring themes ranging from displacement and identity to globalization and technology, as well as contribute to publications such as The New York Times, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler. Over the years, Iyer's travels have taken him to some of the world's most remote destinations—North Korea, Bhutan, and Iceland, to name a few—but it's his hundred-plus visits to a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California, that form the heart of his latest book, Aflame: Learning From Silence. Connecting with his inner stillness during these various sojourns in solitude has left him wholly transformed, opening him up to discover the thrumming, ineffable joy of being truly awake to the world and wonderfully alive. On this episode of Time Sensitive, Iyer explores the purpose and joy of travel, and shares deeply moving reflections about what he finds most essential in life.Special thanks to our Season 11 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Pico Iyer[4:25] “Aflame”[4:25] “Autumn Light”[4:25] Philip Larkin[4:25] “The Art of Poetry No. 30”[7:18] Bashō[7:18] Leonard Cohen[10:21] New Camaldoli Hermitage[10:21] Post Ranch Inn [16:25] “Postmodern Tourism: A Conversation with Pico Iyer”[17:08] “The Eloquent Sounds of Silence”[21:48] “The Joy of Quiet”[31:42] “What Ping-Pong Taught Me About Life”[33:14] “Walden”[37:28] “The Open Road”[41:37] “Video Night in Kathmandu”[41:37] “The Lady and the Monk”[41:37] “Lonely Places”[41:37] The Global Soul[44:40] “In the Realm of Jet Lag”[52:35] “Culture: The Leading Hotels of the World”[55:17] Potala Palace[55:17] Naoshima, Japan[55:17] Teshima, Japan[55:17] Narita, Japan[01:00:43] “The Half Known Life”[01:10:10] “No Time”

Dans ce roman très pudique, finaliste des Prix Renaudot et Femina, l'auteur nous raconte les retrouvailles entre un père et sa fille, dans le cadre magnifique de l'île de Naoshima au Japon, totalement dédiée aux arts et à la culture.

Jeden Montag und Donnerstag Kult: SWR3-Moderator Kristian Thees ruft seine beste Freundin Anke Engelke an und die beiden erzählen sich gegenseitig ihre kleinen Geschichtchen des Tages.

Luxury prison hotel in Nara. Aichi Prefecture's first female mayor. My miso journey begins. Travel meets art and education at Art Island Center on Naoshima. Japan Oddities series 5 of 9. Word of the Day.

I'm on a boat. Ég bý á ævintýraskipinu National Geographic Resolution og verð þar næstu vikurnar. Við erum að sigla um suðvestur Japan og komum við á stöðum á borð við Naoshima, Ehime, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Yakushima, Busan (S-Kórea), Hagi og Kanazawa. Í þessum þætti fjalla ég um lífið um borð - hvaða stöðu ég gegni og hvaða skyldum ég þarf að sinna, hvenær ég vakna og hvenær ég sef (ekki oft). 

Typhoon Lan update. Figs. Creator shout-out. Naoshima English initiative. Japan Oddities #3 of 9. Eco-friendly eating in Japan(ese). Word of the day.

ViveViajando en Latinus: La aventura a Naoshima, Japón. Un viaje largo en avión, tren bala y ferry para llegar a "La Isla del Arte" llena de museos, edificaciones e instalaciones artísticas en armonía con la naturaleza desde el ojo de Hernán Junco. #LatinusPodcast

Unique art installation at defunct copper refinery on Inujima (close to Naoshima). New bullet train chime starts today on the Tokaido shinkansen after 20 years of Tokio's 'Ambitious Japan'. The hospital system in Japan with important information about financial costs and procedures. Word of the day.

News: Over 10 million international Japan arrivals in first half. Travel: Hidden world-class gem called Naoshima! Food: Eggplant donuts! Healthy homestyle Japanese food. And, word of the day!

Oggi visitiamo lo Shikoku! Partiamo dalla mistica Naoshima, isola dedicata ai musei d'arte. Ci spostiamo poi a Takamatsu, dove visitiamo il Ritsurin Koen e proviamo specialità come il sashimi di pollo e gli udon. Infine tappa a Matsuyama per rilassarci alle onsen dove si reca anche l'imperatore e assaggiare qualche bevanda al mandarino.Per sentire la diretta dove vi facciamo anche ascoltare musica tratta dalla nostra playlist di viaggio appuntamento a martedì alle 20:30 su unive.it/radiocafoscari!

Dans ce nouvel épisode, Céline nous présente l'un de ses pays préféré : le Japon !

When making mokuhanga there are many way to get to the final product. However you get there, you need to enjoy every single moment you have with it. So many twists and turns, indulging your passions with your work, anything can happen. On this episode of The Unfinished Print I speak with printmaker Karen Pittman. With her varied CV, Karen has explored many ways of making, of creating. Her influences come from the traditional, working from the ground up. Karen's mokuhanga exudes that tradition, the patience and serenity of a seasoned mokuhanga artist.  I speak with Karen Pittman about how she got involved with mokuhanga, her time at Mokuhankan and David Bull, her blog; Vivid Laboratories, he own work and what she learned from her mother as an artist.  Please follow The Unfinished Print and my own mokuhanga work on Instagram @andrezadoroznyprints or email me at theunfinishedprint@gmail.com  Notes: may contain a hyperlink. Simply click on the highlighted word or phrase. Artists works follow after the note. Pieces are mokuhanga unless otherwise noted. Karen Pittman - blog, Instagram  星空に - By Starlight (2019) Balcones Canyonlands (2020) Annie Bissett - is an American mokuhanga printmaker and graphic designer based in Rhode Island, USA. Her work touches on politics, and beauty. Her interview with The Unfinished Print cane be found, here. Annie's work can be found, here. April Vollmer - is a mokuhanga artist based in New York City. She has been working in the medium for over thirty years. Her book, Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, is a classic of the genre and a fantastic instructional book on mokuhanga. Her interview with The Unfinished Print can be found, here.  Zea Mays Workshop  - is a printmaking workshop located in Florence, Massachusetts, USA. They conduct in person and online workshops, as well as tutorials and private lessons for many types of printmaking. More info, here.    temari - (手まり） is a Japanese folk art where balls are embroidered with different types of decorations. They are used as toys, gifts, games, or for collection. More info can be found about this delightful craft, here. For Karen Pittman's temari balls, you can find them here.    two point perspective - also known as linear perspective, is a drawing style which creates a 3D perspective on a two dimensional surface. It is one point of the three points of perspective. One point perspective is where the vanishing point is on the horizon line, and three point perspective is where three points are on the horizon line. The above information is found on The Virtual Instructor, by Matt Fussell, where all points are discussed in detail.    Naoshima (直島) - is a an island and part of an archipelago of islands located between Shikoku and Honshu islands in Japan. It is known for its comteporary art galleries, fishing, and nature tourism. More info, here.    shin hanga - is a style of Japanese woodblock printmaking which began during the end of the ukiyo-e period of Japanese printmaking, in the early 20th Century. Focusing on the foreign demand for “traditional” Japanese imagery and motifs such as castles, bridges, famous landscapes, bamboo forests, to name just a few.  Shin hanga was born in 1915 by Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885-1962) when he found Austrian artist Frtiz Capelari (1884-1950) and commissioned Capelari to design some prints for Watanabe's feldgling printing house . From there shin-hanga evolved into its own distinct “new” style of Japanese woodblock printing. It lasted as this distinct style until its innevitable decline after the Second World War (1939-1945).     Emil Orlick (1870-1932) - 日本の刷り師 (1901)   Yoshida Family of Artists - The Yoshida's are one of the most famous family of artists from Japan. Begun with painter Yoshida Kasaburō (1861-1894), made famous by Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) and his work with woodblock printing. The Yoshida family has helped shape many artists around the world. More info from the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, here.     Tōshi Yoshida (1911-1995) - 白塀 (Shirobei)   Studio Ghibli - (株式会社スタジオジブリ)  is an animation production house based in Tōkyō, Japan. The studio was founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata (1935-2018), and Toshio Suzuki. It has a long line of animated films which have influenced artists, and animators around the world. One such film is Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) an historical fantasy taking place during the Muromachi Period (1336-1573 CE) of Japan. It is a fantasy story based on the relationship between nature, gods, and man. More info can be found here for Ghibli.    David Bull - is a Canadian woodblock printmaker, and educator who lives and works in Japan. His love of mokuhanga has almost singlehandedly promoted the art form around the world. His company, Mokuhankan, has a brick and mortar store in Asakusa, Tōkyō, and online, here.      The Seacoast in Autumn from the My Solitudes Series (2007-2009)   Mokuhankan  - is a brick and mortar woodblock print shop located in Asakusa, Tōkyō. It is a learning and working space, where it sells the works of artist Jed Henry, master carvers of the past, and various print series. All are printed and carved by Mokuhankan printmakers and carvers. Started by printmaker David Bull as a way to sell his own series and reprints of old carvers of the past, Mokuhankan has grown exponentially over the years and is a must visit when coming to Tōkyō. More info, here.    Awagami Mini Print Exhibtion - is a an exhibiton sponsored by the Awagami Factory. Awagami is a company which produces washi in Tokushima, Shikoku, Japan. This exhibtion, focuses on small size prints. More info can be found, here.   Cameron Hilker - was an employee at Mokuhankan from 2017-2022. Cameron worked at Mokuhankan as the Businnes Operations and Social Media Marketing Manager. His interview with The Unfinished Print, can be found, here.    Asakusa, Tōkyō - is a vibrant and exciting part of the metropolis of Tōkyō. It is rich with history, and rich in the tradition of entertainment, theatre, and religion. Today, Asakusa is known for it's temple system, with Sensō-ji as its centrepiece. Shopping, within the Nakamise, leading you from Kaminarimon to Sensō-ji, you are surrounded by so many opportunities to spend your money, it's quite the experience. You can also go to Kappa-bashi, where you can shop for kitchen-ware and random tchochke's. More information can be found at gotokyo.org.    Don Quijote - (株式会社ドン・キホーテ)  founded in 1989, Don Quijote is a chain of department stores located throughout Japan, parts of Asia and The United States. As a discount realtor, Don Quijote caters to tourists and locals who want a good price. More info can be found on their website, here.    Daiso - (株式会社大創産業)  founded in 1977, Daiso is a discount realtor based in Japan but with outlets throughout the world. While known for being “the 100 Yen shop", Daiso sells a variety of items at different price points.  More info, here.    Fabiola Gil Alares - is a mokuhanga artist and business person who lives and works in Spain. Her book on mokuhanga, Mokuhanga: Manual Ilustrado de Xilografia Japonesa, has become one of the go to books about mokuhanga, in any language. Her interview with The Unfinished Print can be found, here. Her website can be found, here.      Adentro    Print which Karen helped to print when working at Mokuhankan.     Owl In Moonlight (みみずくのうたた寝）printed by Mokuhankan. Based on a print by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)   Shin-Torinoko paper - is a mass produced, machine made Japanese paper that is relatively inexpensive. It comes in various weights and colours. More info can be found, here.    Kitaro Japanese Paper Company -  founded in 1872, Kitaro focuses on making high quality Japanese washi in Fukui Prefecture.  More info, here.    murasaki baren - is a mid-range mokuhanga baren. “murasaki” meaning “purple” , come in two types of weight (medium and heavy), and two types of sizes (10cm and 12cm). They are reasonably priced baren.    McClains Woodblock Print Supply Co.  - based in Portland, Oregon, McClains is the go to supplier of woodblock print tools in the United States. Their website can be found, here. The interview with the Unfinished Print with Daniel Jasa of McClain's can be found, here.   mudabori - "waste carving" is a technique in mokuhanga which involves the artist carving away any unwanted wood deemed unecessary for their finished print. These can be guides, as to where the colour blocks will be carved, and then carved away later after it has served its purpose.  More info can be found over at Mokuhankan, here.   Edo Period (1603-1868 CE) pigments for mokuhanga - during the Edo Period, mixing four or five colours was common as they were mineral and vegetal pigments, which could last a long time. According to Japanese Print-Making by Tōshi Yoshida, the best colours to use for their steadfastness was sumi (black ink), gofun (shell powder), shu (Chinese vermillion), kuchinashi (jasmine/gardenia yellow), ai (indigo), and taisha (red ochre).   John Amoss of Tanuki Prints in Georgia, has written and produced a video of some of his work with Mokuhankan, and his experience grinding traditional pigments with their team. You can find that, here. From David Bull's woodblock.com there is a posting about preparing powdered pigments in the traditional method, here. My interview with John Amoss can be found, here.      Morning Tree by John Amoss (2022)   Winsor & Newton - is a British artist supply company, started in 1832,  which sells artist materials such as pigments, brushes, paper, etc. More info can be found, here.    Print Austin -  is an annual printmaking expo in Austin, Texas where artists of all different types of printmaking come and show their work. As Karen says in her interview, there are workshops, classes and interactive modules. More info can be found, here.    New Leaf Gallery - is a relief print focused gallery located in Wybridge, Vermont, USA. More info can be found, here.    Cormark International - is an international supplier of exotic woods, and are based in South Africa. More info, here.    Ocooch Hardwoods - is a wood supplier based in Wisconsin. More info can be found, here.    © Popular Wheat Productions opening and closing musical credit - One Love (LG Main remix) from From Illmatic to Stillmatic: The Remixes (2002) logo designed and produced by Douglas Batchelor and André Zadorozny  Disclaimer: Please do not reproduce or use anything from this podcast without shooting me an email and getting my express written or verbal consent. I'm friendly :) Слава Україну If you find any issue with something in the show notes please let me know. ***The opinions expressed by guests in The Unfinished Print podcast are not necessarily those of André Zadorozny and of Popular Wheat Productions.***      

Yayoi Kusama's 'Pumpkin' from 1994 had been on a pier on the island of Naoshima jutting out to sea yet was washed away during a typhoon last summer. After being rescued by locals and repaired, the sculpture has now been unveiled and is back to its former glory. Nearby, the Okayama Arts Summit 2022 entitled Do we dream under the same sky, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, also considers community and participation as the triennale returns after its last edition in 2019 chose technology and fiction as major themes. There has been nothing imaginary about the past 3 years and this edition of the Art Summit aims to slow things down, and does so until November 27th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get to know Jerome Lee, who compares Singapore & Japan, introduces his online tours business, discusses luxury/hobby/inclusive trips in Japan, and shares best tourism memories in Kamikochi, Naoshima and rainy Yakushima. Host: Sébastien Duval Guest: Jerome Lee, founder of FourWinds, ex-director of Japan Travel KK's travel department. Support: Jessy Mauco Online highlights: https://jpsnowsports.com https://www.socialinnovationjapan.com/en/home [SAKURA KANKO] https://489.fm [KAMIKOCHI] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/13275 [NAOSHIMA] https://en.japantravel.com/kagawa/naoshima-island [YAKUSHIMA] https://en.japantravel.com/kagoshima/yakushima Sound effects obtained from https://zapsplat.com.

Hello. Welcome to Jenni's Pika Pika Japanese. The other day I introduced Ehime（愛媛）and Kochi（高知） prefectures in Shikoku（四国）, and today I would like to introduce the two remaining prefectures in Shikoku, Tokushima（徳島） and Kagawa（香川）. From Tokushima, we will introduce you to the Awa Odori dance（阿波踊り） and the Naruto whirlpools（鳴門のうずしお）, and from Kagawa, Sanuki Udon noodles（讃岐うどん） and Ritsurin Park（栗林公園）, Naoshima（直島）, Teshima（豊島）, and Inujima（犬島）, islands in the Seto Inland Sea（瀬戸内海）. For more information, please listen to the audio and learn about Shikoku. Photo: Naoshima Public Bath I ♥ Yu (I Love Yu) こんにちは。 ジェニのピカピカ日本語へようこそ。 先日、四国の愛媛県と高知県をご紹介しましたが、今日は四国の残る2つの県、徳島県と香川県をご紹介します。 徳島県からは、阿波踊りと鳴門の渦潮、香川県からは讃岐うどんと栗林公園、瀬戸内海の島、直島（なおしま）と、豊島（てしま）、犬島（いぬじま）をご紹介します。。 詳しくは、ぜひ音声を聞いて四国について学んでください。 写真は、直島銭湯I♥湯（アイラブ湯）

Aujourd'hui, je pars à la rencontre de Benjamin Clarens et Yann Martin, les co-fondateurs de l'agence CUT architectures. Retail, hôtellerie, bureaux, rénovation d'appartements, ils développent depuis 2008 des projets aux échelles variées. D'un studio pour un particulier à un hôtel de 1000 chambres, en passant par un bar karaoké, ils aiment proposer des concepts nets, sans jamais se reposer sur les tendances. C'est ce qu'ils évoquent avec le nom CUT : trancher avec les idées reçues.      Dans cet épisode, on a discuté de leurs débuts, de la pratique de l'architecture à l'étranger, de la scène majeure des Pays Bas pour Benjamin aux contraintes de climat en Finlande pour Yann, et des bonnes pratiques qu'ils ont conservées aujourd'hui : avoir une véritable idée derrière un projet et pas seulement une approche purement pragmatique, ne pas s'interdire de travailler du mobilier, de travailler des échelles qui ne sont a priori pas celles de l'architecte.      Ce fut l'occasion aussi de revenir sur la création de l'agence, de leur premier projet de jardin à Chaumont sur Loire, qui leur a donné le goût des matériaux, à leur premier gros chantier pour les cafés Coutume, qui leur a permis par la suite de décrocher les restaurants PNY et de travailler aujourd'hui de plus en plus à l'étranger, notamment au Japon. Le projet qu'ils préfèrent ? Celui qu'ils n'ont pas fait. Plus il y a de contraintes, mieux c'est.   _____     Pour prolonger l'épisode :   Site Internet de CUT : http://www.cut-architectures.com/   Compte Instagram de CUT : https://www.instagram.com/cutarchitectures/   ______     FOOD   - Benjamin : Café du coin, rue Camille Desmoulins (Paris)  - Yann : tous les restaurants de Soba au Japon   ART  - Yann : Teshima Art Museum, sur les îles de Naoshima et Techima  - Benjamin : König Galerie, ancienne église brutalise convertie en galerie d'art, à Berlin    VOYAGE  - Yann : voyageur urbain, aime se perdre dans une ville, notamment au Japon   - Benjamin : la Catalogne, pour son architecture et la proximité avec la mer   A VISIONNER   - Benjamin & Yann : Bienvenue à Gattaca, d'Andrew Niccol   A LIRE   - Benjamin : La Grande Arche, de Laurence Cossé   - Yann : Trilogie Sphères (Bulles, Globes, Ecumes) de Peter Sloterdijk ______     Retrouvez toute l'actualité du podcast sur https://www.instagram.com/journalurbain/ ou en vous abonnant a la newsletter sur https://podcast.ausha.co/journalurbain   

Hello. Welcome to Jenni's Pika Pika Japanese. It has become completely warm in Japan, and the news said that it will be 29 degrees Celsius in Fukushima today. It is like a summer temperature. But at the moment, the humidity is not so high and the wind is refreshing, so it is a comfortable season and I feel like going out somewhere. Today, I would like to introduce Naoshima, a tiny island of art floating in the Seto Inland Sea, to those who are tempted by such weather and want to go on a trip somewhere. Naoshima belongs to Kagawa Prefecture on Shikoku Island, but it is located on the other side of the Seto Inland Sea, 3 km from Okayama Prefecture. This tiny Naoshima is actually attracting attention from overseas, and is a popular spot visited by many foreign tourists. The secret is that works by Yayoi Kusama, known for her polka-dot motifs, and Tadao Ando, an architect known worldwide for his many beautiful buildings, are scattered throughout the island, and the island itself has become popular because of the perfect harmony between the old townscape and modern art, as if the island itself were an artwork. However, Yayoi Kusama's famous "Pumpkin," a symbol of the island, was blown away by a typhoon on August 9, 2021, smashing it against the pier and destroying it, and is no longer on display. 直島　なおしま 瀬戸内海　せとないかい 香川　かがわ 岡山　おかやま 南瓜　なんきん／かぼちゃ こんにちは。 ジェニのピカピカ日本語へようこそ。 日本はすっかり温かくなり、今日の福島は29度になるとニュースで言っていました。 まるで夏のような気温です。 でも今のところ、湿度がそんなに高くなくて、風もさわやかなので過ごしやすい季節で、どこかへ出かけたくなります。 さて、今日はそんな気候に誘われて、どこかに旅に出かけたくなる人に瀬戸内海に浮ぶちいさなアートの島、直島をご紹介します。 直島は四国の香川県に属しているのですが、立地的には瀬戸内海の対岸、岡山県から３Kmに位置しています。 このちっぽけな直島ですが、実は海外からも注目されており、外国人観光客も数多く訪れる人気スポットです。 その秘密は水玉模様のモチーフで知られる草間彌生氏や、数々の美しい建築で世界的に知られる建築家、安藤忠雄氏の作品が島のあちこちに散りばめられていて、古い町並みと現代アートが見事に調和して島そのものがまるでアートのようなということで人気を博しています。 ただ、その島のシンボルとして有名だった草間彌生氏の作品、「南瓜」は2021年8月9日の台風で飛ばされ、桟橋に打ち付けられて壊れてしまい、現在は展示されていません。

Hélène Argelliès est architecte et plasticienne. Après avoir enseigné pendant 30 ans dans des universités d'architecture en France et au Japon, Hélène s'est installée à Porquerolles où elle exerce désormais en tant que coach en créativité pour le développement personnel, le bien-être et la santé. Une formule de coaching totalement originale qui porte le nom de YOOKOSO Porquerolles (bienvenue Porquerolles).Hélène a de nombreux autres talents. Formée à la PNL (Programmation Neuro-linguistique), au Yoga, la danse classique, l'art vocal , la calligraphie japonaise, l'art des kakejiku, elle mène une vie professionnelle et artistique riches et révélatrices de son insatiable curiosité. Avec Hélène, on a parlé d'architecture, de coaching, d'ikigaï, d'esprit de famille et de convivialité, de laboratoire du futur, des Cévennes, du Japon et de Porquerolles.L'article complet et toutes les notes et références citées dans l'épisode sont à retrouver sur fragileporquerolles.com

Tadao Andō si dedicò all'architettura da appassionato autodidatta, arricchì il suo bagaglio grazie a numerosi viaggi studio in Europa e negli Stati Uniti, ma inizialmente condusse una vita molto varia, svolgendo attività in qualità di falegname, camionista e pugile. Cresciuto al di fuori delle istituzioni architettoniche, gli anni '60 sono stati per lui quelli dell'apprendimento dell'architettura, della formazione di una personale coscienza sull'abitare, mentre per il Giappone sono i testimoni di un processo di occidentalizzazione dei gusti e dei modi di vita. In questo clima culturale, spinto dall'economia di mercato e combattuto tra due poli opposti, Ando esordisce metabolizzando gli influssi esteri e operando, contemporaneamente, nel solco della civiltà giapponese.

Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle sending signals in restaurants with cutlery, going to art gallery openings, flushing dog poop down toilets, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a hand-written thank you note if we could.)Have a question for us? Call or text (267) CALL-RBW or visit ask.wyrbw.comEPISODE CONTENTSAMUSE-BOUCHE: Signals you can send with your cutleryA QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Art galleriesQUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: How do I break the news to my sister and best friend that I can't attend their weddings? What do I do about a group gift that's going over budget? How do I stop my friend who is flushing dog poop down my toilet?VENT OR REPENT: Unexpected houseguests, Asking for receiptsCORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Happy anniversary, A nice reviewTHINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOWIncorrect Table Etiquette InfographicBreakfast TV (Toronto): "Can you read this cutlery etiquette language?"Naoshima, JapanMona (Museum of Old and New Art) in HobartVenice BiennaleNY Times: "How Not To Look Like A Dope In an Art Gallery" (1997)EPA "Pick Up After Your Pet" Brochure (PDF)NYC Department of Sanitation Dog LawsYOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO...Support our show through PatreonSubscribe and rate us 5 stars on Apple PodcastsCall, text, or email us your questionsFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and TwitterVisit our official websiteSign up for our newsletterBuy some fabulous official merchandiseCREDITSHosts: Nick Leighton & Leah BonnemaProducer & Editor: Nick LeightonTheme Music: Rob ParavonianTRANSCRIPTEpisode 108See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How to Travel Unusual in Okayama Japan with Okayama resident super-fan Dave Olsen. Dave is the perfect guest to share insights from his hometown and links to articles he's written on his blog featuring great spots, eateries and experiences not to be missed. https://youtu.be/l_6cm4rkDGA (Watch the Talk here on YouTube.) Dave's Okayama Links (Shared during the LIVE): + Olive Garden Ushimado coffee views: https://daveostory.com/daveo-dispatches/personal-musings/diary-coffee-with-views-plus-ramen-and-painting-preview/ (https://daveostory.com/daveo-dispatches/personal-musings/diary-coffee-with-views-plus-ramen-and-painting-preview/) + Uno Port Inn (access to Naoshima etc) https://daveostory.com/daveo-dispatches/personal-musings/musings-towards-uno-about-smugglers-book-free-pyjamas-and-vancouver-history/ (https://daveostory.com/daveo-dispatches/personal-musings/musings-towards-uno-about-smugglers-book-free-pyjamas-and-vancouver-history/) + Dave's guidebook to Okayama: https://daveostory.com/writing-fiction-essays/wandering/primer-travelling-to-and-around-okayama-japan/ (https://daveostory.com/writing-fiction-essays/wandering/primer-travelling-to-and-around-okayama-japan/) + Korakuen Gardens: https://daveostory.com/daveo-dispatches/personal-musings/korakuen-gardens-mothers-day-out/ (https://daveostory.com/daveo-dispatches/personal-musings/korakuen-gardens-mothers-day-out/) + Bizen stuff: https://daveostory.com/photos-snaps/spontaneous-snaps/memento-bizen-okayama-japan-day-out-for-pottery-festival/ (https://daveostory.com/photos-snaps/spontaneous-snaps/memento-bizen-okayama-japan-day-out-for-pottery-festival/) + A few snaps of Bizen: https://daveostory.com/photos-snaps/spontaneous-snaps/memento-bizen-okayama-japan-day-out-for-pottery-festival/ (https://daveostory.com/photos-snaps/spontaneous-snaps/memento-bizen-okayama-japan-day-out-for-pottery-festival/) + My veeerrrry fave place in Okayama, Rural Caprine Goat Farm: https://daveostory.com/tag/rural-caprine-farm/ (https://daveostory.com/tag/rural-caprine-farm/) + Okayama overview: https://daveostory.com/writing-fiction-essays/wandering/primer-travelling-to-and-around-okayama-japan/ (https://daveostory.com/writing-fiction-essays/wandering/primer-travelling-to-and-around-okayama-japan/) * JOIN the JJWalsh Supporters + buy me a coffee - your support keeps me going, thanks! **​ ~BuyMeACoffee~ https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbldMazlyZjZlN0M3OFh6cDJKeVBvZXZVLVk0UXxBQ3Jtc0tuZWRoUFFQdVJUdU9TZDZ6TUNEbHU3azJNak0yNTlfbWFURlExTk9zRENKOFpza3d2SDBJT21nSzliSlFYYXNQU0dRZVNlT2IwaHhSNGotSEVsbmFOb0pZb1NTbm02YkdKQkVfV1BqaUY1NDhvRk5HZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buymeacoffee.com%2Fjjwalsh%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jjwalsh​​) ~HAPPS~ https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmoydEVVSWhIWWt2OWwwT29IazVlRmVPVEdHUXxBQ3Jtc0tudi0yRDJtVTNhZkdDWTZIdFFHUnVGRlI1VUJnVVhIb0ljVlBmMi15aWRRTjdxRkNxRzZFcm9nc3o1dUV4RHk0V3g0YlVfTkp3UFQwSmZ6V29mdXluT1FURVpHVFplUnE0WGNxb1ZROEdJSkY2eEUzTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fhapps.tv%2Finvite%2F%40JJWalsh%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B (https://happs.tv/invite/@JJWalsh​​)​ ~Ko-FI https://ko-fi.com/jjwalsh (https://ko-fi.com/jjwalsh) JOIN the support team on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjRdeieOLGes008y_I9y5Q/join (YouTube Memberships) https://medium.com/@jjwalsh (Follow JJ on MEDIUM ) SoundCloud sourced BGM thanks to Hikosaemon Support this podcast

Art Island Naoshima is featured this week on the Sustainable Travel Destinations Seminar - deep dive into what makes a destination sustainable in Japan: successes and hurdles that can inspire and be used as warnings for travel and tourism destinations around Japan and across the world. Interesting questions and comments from the live audience this time! - Is there really any local benefit for Naoshima islanders from the art appeal of the island? - Do outsiders who come to the island to set up businesses help the local economy? - Is there anywhere to stay that's not too expensive on the island? Find out more about Benesse co., the main sponsor of the art and accommodation on the island: https://benesse-artsite.jp/en/ (https://benesse-artsite.jp/en/) #naoshima #sustainabletravel #japan #mytripbasestyle #sustainabletourism #kagawa ~~ JJWalsh Newsletter on SubStack: https://jjwalsh.substack.com/ (https://jjwalsh.substack.com/) JJWalsh Articles on Medium: https://medium.com/@jjwalsh (https://medium.com/@jjwalsh) Website: http://www.InboundAmbassador.com (http://www.InboundAmbassador.com) Support this podcast

Dass die Japanische Hauptinsel Honshu eine sehr große kulturelle und landschaftliche Vielfalt zu bieten hat, wird Sven Meyer und Andy Janz bei diesem Abstecher in die Region um das Seto-Binnenmehr klar. Nicht nur kann man dort sehr gut essen (Stichwort Kobe Beef), Inselhopping betreiben, Radfahren und Wandern gehen. Nein, man kann dort auch moderne Kunst in ländlicher Kulisse genießen, erzählt Setouchi-Expertin Martina Stuben den beiden Podcastern. Und wer die Japanische Kultur der heißen Quellen (Onsen) kennenlernen möchte, der ist gut in den Kinosaki Onsen im Norden der Region aufgehoben, erzählt Onsen-Expertin Karolina Polanski. Und für Hiroshima als eine heute lebendige und dynamische Metropole bricht Buchautor und Journalist Andreas Drouve eine Lanze. Ein Abstecher in Japans Südwesten, der voller Überraschungen ist.

Caina created by Midmight. "To quote the Longfellow translation of Canto 32 (Caïna: Traitors to Kindred), “ ’Tis no enterprise to take in jest, to sketch the bottom of all the universe.” Like Dante, I called on the Muses to help compose “rhymes both rough and stridulous . . . appropriate to the dismal hole” that is the Ninth Circle. I was inspired by Dante’s choice of this hell circle as a place of brutal cold—instead of the typical burning fire—for the worst of the worst sinners.  "As Dante walks on thick ice, he at first doesn’t see the thousands of traitors’ bodies frozen up to their necks, their heads sticking out, eyes crying, teeth chattering, “shivering in the eternal shade”—much as how family turmoil can be hidden under the surface. But once he does, the scene turns savage, with Dante spotting brothers, fathers, nephews, who have killed their own family members. So in the midst of this frigid, deathly scene, and this piece, are harsh rhythms and flashes of raging unfrozen hearts, whether hatred or even memories of familial love.  "The ice stores and reflects and emits a feedback loop of the betrayals and ties passed down through generations and amassed in a violent collective history.  "I used field recordings (from San Francisco, Naoshima, and wintry Buffalo, NY), a MicoKorg, Sirkuit SNB, Jomox Resonator Neuronium, 4ms Noise Swash, and BugBrand PT Delay to create the icy hellscape." Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/inferno

Llega un nuevo capítulo del podcast Hola Mundo. En esta ocasión, para hablar de Japón y además, contamos con la “segunda opinión” de Flapy, un español en Japón.Esto es lo que vas a encontrar en este programa…- ¿Por qué queríamos ir a Japón? - Cómo imaginábamos que iba a ser nuestro Jamón- Cuándo fuimos, cómo y qué ruta hicimos.- Palabras by Chapka: Yoko meshi- Qué nos encontramos en Japón- La cara que se te queda- Japofrismos- Anécdotas- Viajando con los sentidos: mapa sonoro, cromoviajismo, a qué sabe y huele Japón.- Qué recuerdo y sensación tenemos, ¿volveríamos? En qué tipo de viaje.- La segunda opinión: Flapy, un español en JapónInstagram personal: @destebani Twitter personal: @Flapy  Blog: https://flapyinjapan.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Japoneando/ Instagram de la empresa: @viajarporasia Web de la empresa: https://viajarpor.asia/ Gracias a Chapka Assurances https://www.chapkadirect.es/ que nos apoya en esta nueva aventura y que además, te ofrecen un 7% de descuento con el código MUNDO al contratar tu seguro con ellos. Esto fue lo que escribimos de Japón en su momento:- Japón en imágenes: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/japon-en-imagenes/- Pueblos en barbecho. Convicciones mutantes: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/pueblos-en-barbecho-convicciones-mutantes/- Guía para viajar a Tokio con niños: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/japon-guia-viajar-tokyo-ninos/- Tokio desde arriba: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/tokyo-desde-arriba/- Tokio en dulce: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/tokyo-en-dulce/- El metro de Tokio: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/el-metro-de-tokyo/- Koketeando con los japoneses: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/koketeando-con-los-japoneses/- Persiguiendo el Sakura: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/persiguiendo-el-sakura/- Aprendiendo a comer sushi: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/aprendiendo-comer-sushi/- El budismo en 5 preguntas: https://algoquerecordar.com/utilidades/consejos/budismo/- Mapa sonoro de Japón: https://algoquerecordar.com/ocurrencias/mapas-sonoros/mapa-sonoro-japon/- Japón en imágenes: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/japon-en-imagenes/- Guía rápida de Japón: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/guia-rapida-japon/- Presupuesto diario en Japón: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/presupuesto-diario-japon/- Dormir en un hotel cápsula: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/dormir-en-un-hotel-capsula/- La infinita comida de Japón: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/la-infinita-comida-de-japon/- De Nikko a Aomori: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/viajes-massalahdtrip-de-nikko-a-aomori/- Japofrismos: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/japofrismos/- Tokio: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/tokyo/- Kyoto: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/kyoto/- Osaka: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/osaka/- Baños indios vs. Baños japoneses: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/india/bano-indio-vs-bano-japones-fight/- Okayama y Naoshima: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/okayama-y-naoshima/- Dormir en un cibercafé en Japón: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/dormir-en-un-cibercafe-en-japon/- Hiroshima: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/massalahdtrip-japon-hiroshima/- Kyushu: https://algoquerecordar.com/destinos/asia/japon/kyushu/Por aquí te dejamos los vpodcast anteriores de la temporada 2 de Hola Mundo: - Egipto con Carla Llamas de lamaletadecarla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqMrSvW9zn4- Cuba con Charly Sinewan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0j66n7kKM- Islandia con Vanessa de viajeroscallejeros.com : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DsYdnt4aLg- Sudáfrica con Paco Nadal de 1000sitiosquever.com : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5L7IwxuPKw- Madivas con Sara de Mindfultravelbysara.com : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COVB4OpZT-ISi te interesa, puedes ver la primera temporada completa en: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpFNz2S2UB5yh5MOOq4UlA9BHnRI1W1Y2Quizás también te pueda interesar ver alguno de nuestros cortometrajes o documentales viajeros: - El síndrome del eterno viajero I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKGcg_jBhw - El síndrome del eterno viajero II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5uQCFrNGw&t=4s - Hola, Mundo (el documental): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGSLv0PjgF0&t=1164s - Anoniman, detrás de los carteles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjTnlejAgcI&t=52s Si te está gustando esto de escucharnos y vernos haciendo podcast, comparte y dale al boca a boca. No te quedes con las ganas y suscríbete en tu plataforma favorita: apple podcast, ivoox, spotify, castbox o google podcast. Y si eres muy de YouTube porque además quieres "verlo", suscríbete a nuestro canal. Tenemos muchas cositas para ver. Puedes seguirnos en nuestro blog algoquerecordar.com o en todas las redes con @algoqrecordar Por si te ha llegado el rumor de que hemos escrito dos libros. Sí, es cierto. Son “Algo que recordar viajando con mochila" y "Algo que recordar viajando con bebé" y los puedes conseguir en: https://algoquerecordar.com/posts-destacados/siete-anos-en-dos-libros/ ¡Hasta el próximo capítulo!lucy&rubén

By pushing deep into the future, the stunning “art island” of Naoshima leads you into the best of the Japanese past The post A High-Tech Ancient Stillness appeared first on Litro Magazine.

In this episode, Becky Gillespie talks about her experience growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, studying abroad in Europe and then deciding to move to Tokyo at age 22.  She shares her experience upon arrival and her subsequent choice to stay in Tokyo for 12 years before becoming a full-time digital nomad.  Matt and Becky discuss the food scene in Tokyo and also talk about their experiences in Kyoto, Hiroshima, Miyajima, and Naoshima.  Becky then shares some of her most epic travel experiences including trekking Everest Basecamp, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, and repelling down into Hang Son Doong—the world's largest cave—in Vietnam.  After traveling to 69 countries, she shares her top tips for female solo-travelers. Becky then talks about her podcast, The School of Travels. And finally, she discusses her new book:  Shimokitazawa: A Tokyo Beginner's Guide to the World's Most Walkable Neighborhood.Becky explains why Shimokitazawa is her favorite neighborhood, why this one small section of Tokyo deserves its own 200+ page book, and what made her fall in love with the neighborhood and choose to live there for 9 years.  FULL SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE AT: www.TheMaverickShow.com

Ichi-go-ichi-e é um provérbio japonês que pode ser traduzido como "cada encontro é único". Inspirada por esse tema, nesse episódio falo sobre arte, arquitetura, turismo local e, principalmente, sobre encontros breves e marcantes com pessoas que conheci em uma das minhas viagens pelo Japão.

Pode parecer estranho, mas deixar a câmera e o celular de lado me ajuda a produzir conteúdo. Nesse episódio, falo sobre zen, arte, contemplação, cerimônia do chá e a língua japonesa.Referências em peachnojapao.comInstagram: @peachnojapao

In this week's episode, I'm bringing you Part 2 of Exploring Off-the-Beaten-Path Japan where I am going to reveal my Top 10 Places in Japan beyond Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. I have personally visited each one of these places over 10 years of living in Japan and can guarantee that they will provide you with unique experiences when you make that dream trip to Japan. From the town where John Lennon spent his summers with Yoko Ono (and Bill Gates also has a house) to a place where a monk will take you on a nighttime tour of a cemetery (and then leave you there to find your way out), we are going into the quirky and lesser known Japan in this episode! Join me for Part 2 of Off-the-Beaten Path Japan travel in this solo episode and get even more inspired to visit this incredible country one day soon!    

Wie naar Japan reist, komt al snel terecht in Tokio, Kyoto, Nara of Mt. Fuji. Supermooi natuurlijk, maar je kunt ook de boot pakken naar een van de duizenden kleine eilandjes. Daar ontdek je een heel andere kant van Japan: bijvoorbeeld een jungle in de krater van een vulkaan, een eiland vol kunst of eilandjes met bountystranden.Snel doorklikken naar jouw favoriete eiland kan met deze tijdcodes: 01:04 Waarom je Japanse eilanden moet opzoeken en Ellen van japandichtbij.nl stelt zich voor; 06:29 Kunsteiland Naoshima; 13:53 Fietsend eilandhoppen op de Shimanami Kaido, met tips van Ellen van japandichtbij.nl. Voor nog meer praktische informatie is Japan-guide.com heel handig, met hier de rechtstreekse link: japan-guide.com/e/e3478.html; 24:43 Reistips: De documentaire over backpackers “Same Same But Different” van luisteraar Toïne Haverkamp kun je bekijken via deze link: youtu.be/_Qqp62SWWXM. Daisy vertelt hoe je zorgt dat zoekgeraakte bagage tijdens een vlucht weer terugkomt; 31:00 Hachijojima: het eiland met twee vulkanen en in een van de kraters een jungle; 42:47 Het bountystrandgevoel van Japan op de Riukiu-eilanden of Ryukyu Islands. Niels bezocht onder meer Ishigaki, Taketome en Iriomote.

Wie naar Japan reist, komt al snel terecht in Tokio, Kyoto, Nara of Mt. Fuji. Supermooi natuurlijk, maar je kunt ook de boot pakken naar een van de duizenden kleine eilandjes. Daar ontdek je een heel andere kant van Japan: bijvoorbeeld een jungle in de krater van een vulkaan, een eiland vol kunst of eilandjes met bountystranden. Snel doorklikken naar jouw favoriete eiland kan met deze tijdcodes: 01:04 Waarom je Japanse eilanden moet opzoeken en Ellen van japandichtbij.nl stelt zich voor; 06:29 Kunsteiland Naoshima; 13:53 Fietsend eilandhoppen op de Shimanami Kaido, met tips van Ellen van japandichtbij.nl. Voor nog meer praktische informatie is Japan-guide.com heel handig, met hier de rechtstreekse link: japan-guide.com/e/e3478.html; 24:43 Reistips: De documentaire over backpackers “Same Same But Different” van luisteraar Toïne Haverkamp kun je bekijken via deze link: youtu.be/_Qqp62SWWXM. Daisy vertelt hoe je zorgt dat zoekgeraakte bagage tijdens een vlucht weer terugkomt; 31:00 Hachijojima: het eiland met twee vulkanen en in een van de kraters een jungle; 42:47 Het bountystrandgevoel van Japan op de Riukiu-eilanden of Ryukyu Islands. Niels bezocht onder meer Ishigaki, Taketome en Iriomote.

Taking a vacation to Japan is overwhelming. Sharing travel picks is overwhelming. Shopping online consignment is overwhelming. But you know what? We went ahead and tackled it all here, and we’re pretty proud of ourselves, thanks.   The linkage: For Claire, true RealReal browsing is all about the app. But there is, of course, also a (slightly less addictive) website. Another online consignment shop to check out: Luxury Garage Sale. Why not set sale alerts for your go-to brands on ShopStyle, too?  Our six Tokyo picks! A Yomiuri Giants baseball game, the Yanaka neighborhood for wandering around, Gyoza Ro for dumplings, Mikawa Zezankyo for an outrageous tempura dinner (that you can book on OpenTable), Hakusan Porcelain for truly stunning ceramics, and Kappabashi Shopping District for the restaurant-supply shops (including Kamata knife shop) that will have you thinking about buying another suitcase. What we loved in Kyoto! Kyoto International Manga Museum for an anime deep-dive (which turned Claire onto the Nana series), Kyomachiya Hotel Shiki Juraku, the Kitano Tenmangu shrine monthly flea market (on the 25th of the month), the 550-year-old soba restaurant Owariya (aside: Try Cocoron in NYC, too), and Shoraian Tofu Restaurant for lunch in the bamboo forest. A cheat rec (in a good way): the *art island* Naoshima and the Benesse House Museum, where you can also stay. Try the very buzzy Biossance Squalane + Lactic Acid Resurfacing Night Serum—and get 20% off with the code ATHINGORTWO20. YAY.    Produced by Dear Media

Båndmagasinet no. 4 er en lyd-dokumentation fra en turné i Japan med Asger Kudahl og Tobias Sejersdahl. Båndet består af koncertuddrag med artisterne Akasen, Karch og Kazuyoshi Fugimura, som de mødte undervejs, feltoptagelser fra rejsen samt synthesizer improvisationer mellem Asger og Tobias. Alt lydmateriale er optaget marts/april 2019 i hhv. Kokura, Naoshima, Yokohama, Tokya, Kyoto. Båndmagasinet er et samarbejde mellem pladeselskabet Resonans og The Lake Radio; et kassettebåndsmagasin for lydoptagelser og små lydværker, der eksisterer i mindre traditionelle medier eller formater, og som derfor ikke nødvendigvis kan finde hjemme i andre musikalske distributionsformer. Magasinet er kurateret af Asger Kudahl, William Kudahl og Jan Høgh Stricker. Trackliste: Side A 1. Kazuyoshi Fugimura (Koncertuddrag 07.04.2019, Galleri Soap, Kokura) 2. Feltoptagelse (Færge til Naoshima, optagelse af Asger Kudahl) 3. Karch (Koncertuddrag 17.04.2019, Bar el puente, Yokohama) 4. Feltoptagelse (TeamLab Borderless foyer, Tokyo, optagelser af Asger Kudahl) 5. Akasen (Koncertuddrag 17.04.2019, Bar el puente, Yokohama) 6. Feltoptagelse (Naoshima solnedgangs melodi, optagelser af Asger Kudahl) Side B 1. Tobias Sejersdahl & Asger Kudahl (Koncertuddrag 03.04.2019, Club Metro, Kyoto) 2. Tobias Sejersdahl & Asger Kudahl (Koncertuddrag 15.04.2019, Tabasa, Tokyo) 3. Tobias Sejersdahl & Asger Kudahl (Koncertuddrag 17.04.2019, Bar el puente, Yokohama)

Resümee aus Tōkyō 2 Themen: Wahlen in Japan, Reise nach Onomichi, Naoshima und Teshima, und einige Betrachtungen zu Boys Love. Podcast herunterladen Linksammlung: Linksversiffter Youtubekanal der Zengakuren (Japanisch) Sharon Kinsellas Essay über „Kawaii“(freier Download) Patrick Galbraith on Fujoshi Trailer: Matsui Daigo „Kimi ga kimi de kimi da“ (2018) Musiktipp: Album Ging Nang Boyz Kimi to boku no daisanji sekaitaisenteki renai kakumei Ging Nang Boyz: Kakenuke Seishun Kritik zu "You, Your, Yours"

Vi vender tilbage med sidste program fra det store udland. I vores længste afsnit til dato går vi i krig med kunst, kaffe og Korea. Vi beklager, at afsnittet næsten er en time, men lover, at indholdets kvalitet er høj hele vejen igennem. Nævnte biler er Holden VE Ute og Ford Falcon XR8 Ute. Øen hedder Naoshima, podcasten hedder "Arbejdstitel" og bandet hedder Takykardia.

Your Creative Sparks: The JOURNEY to CREATE a sustainable life doing the things you LOVE I take a BREATH and BUILD another HOME inside my HEART This MERIT is dedicated to “all the scientists and artists who bring the tremendous delight and pleasure to the world and others by their creativity and expressing their creativity. So as anyone who is actually being of benefit to others and brings the joy and comfort and delight for them to have longevity and prosper in their lives.” This hero’s global journey leads her Home. But where is Home? Home is a place where we build our world with our breath, letting the walls be an air of spaciousness and freedom for all beings, including animal beings, plant beings and human beings. We can be at home amid the symphony of crickets, cicada and geckos, under the pitter patter of rain on a thatched roof. “I can find Home where I am - Where the Heart is. I now finish this story to release it and let it go, because there is a new story to be told.” Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue After the lobster release in Maine, it was as if my heart had exploded open and all the unbound particles of my being were dancing off somewhere without me.  [4:58] The art islands of Naoshima (直島), Teshima (豊島), and Inujima (犬島) arise from utter ruin.  [7:03] The call to live simply resounded throughout my soul and the YURT became a symbol of possibility. [9:00] Freedom can happen swiftly. [10:38] Nature as Mother [14:11] like a lobster being released to begin its trek home, i opened my arms and dove right in. [19:00] On Family and Home and accepting help. [23:53] My intention was to spend this summer writing and building a home. i am happy to report that it has come true like a magical, unexpected dream. [28:00] Links and resources: The blog of this Lobsterbird Chronicle: http://lobsterbird.com/where-the-heart-is-part-1/ Episode 47: Audioblog Storytime!, Part 1: The Great Lobster Rescue Back Story Episode 48: Audioblog Storytime!, Part 2: The Great Lobster Rescue Begins! Request your free copy of Phase Out: The Secret Guide to Finding Work that Frees Your Soul by Sophia Remolde {Lobsterbird} at PhaseOutBook.com Lobsterbird’s newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde   Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com. Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, making new life in the new year in Vero Beach, Florida.   For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.   ✨✨✨ If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 starsmakes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Vous connaissiez Bulle d'Art ? Voici la BIG Bulle d'Art ! Tous les cinq numéros, on se retouve autour d'une table avec une dream team de chroniqueurs.ses. Pour cette première BIG Bulle d'Art, Alice, Julie, Laure et Julien causent foires d'art contemporain en compagnie de Romain Tichit, le directeur du YIA Art Fair et du Paris Contemporary Art Show.  Les bulles d'art de chacun :  Alice recommande l'exposition "On Air" de Tomas Saraceno au Palais de Tokyo Julie recommande la série "The Morgue" du photographe Andrés Serrano Julien recommande l'exposition "Revoltuion" de Simon Fujiwara à Lafayette Anticipations Laure recommande les îles japonaises de Naoshima & Teshima, et elle en a aussi parlé en vidéo sur sa chaîne YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwhjifVI1sQ

♫ Read More ♫: http://www.deephouseamsterdam.com/premiere-pin-up-club-naoshima-perel-remix "Naoshima" is available 1 June on Phantasm Records https://soundcloud.com/pin-up-club https://soundcloud.com/perel-music https://soundcloud.com/phantasm-records

Voyage avec moi au Japon ! Du 8 avril au 2 mai 2018, je suis parti pour la deuxième fois dans l’archipel nippon. Cette fois, avec un sac-à-dos et une tente. Abonnez-vous à ma chaîne YouTube pour suivre cette aventure en vidéo. Quel Japon ? Pour ce second voyage au Japon, pas question de rester en ville ! J’ai vadrouillé dans de plus petites villes et des villages, pour voir la campagne japonaise. C’était aussi l’occasion pour moi de revoir mon pote Vincent qui vit à Osaka. Nous avons passé du temps à Osaka, mais aussi à Kyoto. Sinon, vous verrez bien sûr Tokyo, Nagoya et Nagano parce que j’aime tout simplement marcher dans les villes et découvrir la vie culturelle offerte par les villes asiatiques en général. Mais je vous ai promis des coins plus confidentiels : Izumo, Naoshima, Nagiso, Ine, Yosano, Tottori… Si tu veux découvrir ces lieux en vidéo, je te conseille de t’abonner à ma nouvelle chaîne YouTube « Xavier voyage ». Et si tu veux écouter le Japon dans tes oreilles, écoute l’épisode « Origine du soleil ». Tu veux voir de jolies photos du Japon ? Suis-moi sur Instagram. A bientôt ! Un podcast à découvrir avec Podcasteo Découvrez La Tête Dans Le Cerveau, chronique hebdomadaire qui à travers l’actualité de la recherche scientifique, des études de cas surprenantes et des histoires fascinantes invite à découvrir les mystères et les secrets du cerveau tout en ouvrant à la réflexion sur la science et la recherche. En savoir plus sur Podcasteo

Soichiro Fukutake presents the thinking behind his bold, far-reaching experiment on islands in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Benesse Art Site Naoshima comprises museums, permanent art installations and commissions on the islands of Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 22 April 2017, in association with SCAF Projects 34 & 35, The inventive work of Shigeru Ban.

Émission n°9 du jeudi 15 septembre 2016. Présentée par : Valérie Expert. Avec : Jean-Pierre Nadir, Jean-François Rial, Michel-Yves Labbé, Thibaud Perdrix.

"Sur les routes de l'Asie" est de retour après quelques mois d'absence ! Au programme : un sujet très original pour notre second passage au pays du Soleil Levant, en compagnie de Thomas Alix. Grâce à lui nous allons découvrir deux petites îles situées dans la mer intérieure de Seto, Naoshima et Teshima. Ce qui les rend uniques est qu'elles sont devenues un des hauts lieux de l'art contemporain mondial, avec nombres de musées, installations artistiques en plein air et expériences à vivre qui ne manqueront pas de vous étonner, le tout dans un cadre naturel japonais empreint de sérénité. Embarquez pour ce voyage d'un nouveau genre, avant que le monde entier soit au courant...

Steve Blank, lecturer Haas School of Business UCB. He has been a entrepreneur in Silicon Valley since the 1970s. He has been teaching and developing curriculum for entrepreneurship training. Built a method for high tech startups, the Lean LaunchPad.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a [00:00:30] l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews, featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news [inaudible]. Speaker 4: Hi, and good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Today we present part one of two interviews with Steve Blank, a lecturer at the Haas School of business at UC Berkeley. Steve has been a serial entrepreneur in silicon valley since the late 1970s [00:01:00] see if you recognize any of these companies. He was involved with Xylog convergent technologies, MIPS, computer, ardent, super Mack, rocket science games and epiphany. In 1999 Steve Retired from day to day involvement in running a company since 2002 he has been teaching and developing curriculum for entrepreneurship training. By 2011 he was said to have devised [00:01:30] the scientific method for launching high tech startups, dubbed the Lean launch pad. In part one Steve Talks about his beginnings, the culture of Silicon Valley, the intersection of science, technology, finance, and business. Steve Blank, welcome to spectrum. Oh, thanks for having me. I wanted to find out from you how it is you got started as an entrepreneur. What attracted you to that? Speaker 5: He's probably the military. I, uh, spent four years in the air [00:02:00] force during Vietnam and a year and a half in Southeast Asia. And then when I came back to the United States, I worked on a B, 52 bombers in the strategic air command. And I finally years later understood the difference between working in a crisis organization, which was in a war zone where almost anything was acceptable to get the job done versus an execution organization that was dealing with mistakes. Men dropping a 20 megaton nuclear weapon where you process and procedure was actually imperative. And it turned [00:02:30] out I was much better in the organizations that required creativity and agility and tenacity and resilience. And I never understood that I was getting the world's best training for entrepreneurship. I went back to school in Ann Arbor and managed to get thrown out the second time in my life out of University of Michigan. Speaker 5: I call that the best school I was ever thrown out of a Michigan state was the next best school where it was a premed. And then, um, I was sent out to silicon valley. I was working as a field service engineer and what I didn't realize two years later was 16% [00:03:00] startup to bring up a computer system in a place called San Jose. And San Jose was so unknown that my admin got us tickets for San Jose, Puerto Rico until I said, I think it's not out of the country. I came out there to do a job to install a process control system. I thought it was some kind of joke is that there were 45 pages of advertisements in the newspaper at the time for scientists, engineers, et cetera. And I flew back and quit, got a job at my first startup in Silicon Valley [00:03:30] and subsequently I did eight of them in 21 years. Speaker 5: What were some of the ones that stand out out of the eight? You know, I had some great successes. There were four IPOs out of the eight, I'd say one or two. I had something to do with the others. I was just kinda standing there when the safe fell on the guy in front of me and the money dropped down and I got to pick it up. But honestly, in hindsight, and I can now say this only in hindsight, I learned the most from some of the failures though I wouldn't tell you why I wanted to learn that at the time, but failing [00:04:00] and failing hard when it was absolutely clear it was your fault and no one else's forced me to go through the stages of denial and then blame others and then whatever. And then acceptance and then ultimately kind of some real learning about how to build early stage ventures. Speaker 5: You know, I blew my Nixon last company, I was on the cover of wired magazine and 90 days after the cover I realized my company was going out of business and eventually did. And I called my mother who was a Russian immigrant and every time I spoke to my mother I [00:04:30] had to pause because English wasn't her first language. And you know, I'd say something and pause and then she'd say something back and pause. And whenever I said, mom, I lost 35 million hours, pause. And then she said, where'd you put it? I said, no, no, no mom, I'm calling you to tell you none of them was 30 I didn't even get the next sentence out. Cause then she went, oh my gosh, she wants $35 million. We can't even change your name. It's already plank. And then she started thinking about it and she said, and the country we came from [00:05:00] is gone. Speaker 5: There's no fast to go. I said, no, no mom though. What I'm trying to tell you is that the people gave me $35 million, just give me another $12 million to do the next startup. And it was in comprehensible because what I find when I talked to foreign visitors to silicon valley or to any entrepreneurial cluster, you know, we have a special name for failed entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Do you know what it is? Experienced? It's a big idea in the u s around entrepreneurial clusters, failure equals experience. [00:05:30] People don't ask you if you change your name or have to leave town or you're going to go bankrupt, et cetera. The first thing your best friend will ask you is, so what's your next startup? That's an amazing part of this culture that we've built here and that's what happened to me. My last startup, I returned $1 billion each to those two investors and it's not a story about me, it's a story about the ecosystem that we live in that's both supremely American and supremely capitalists, but also Sir Pulliam clustered in just [00:06:00] a few locations in the United States where there are clear reasons why one succeeded to some fail. Speaker 5: You know, when I retired from my last one, I decided that after eight startups in 21 years, my company was about to go public and my kids were seven and eight years old at the time and luckily we had children when I was in my late thirties and so therefore I got to watch people I admired incredibly at work, watch how they dealt with their families. And what was surprising [00:06:30] is that most of them had feet of clay when it came to home. They basically focused 100% of their efforts at work and as their kids grew up, their kids hated them. I kind of remember that in the back of my head, and so when I had the opportunity to retire, I said, I want to watch my kids grow up. And so I did. And that's a preambled answer your question. That's at the end. Speaker 5: For the first time in my life, my head wasn't down completely inside trying to execute in a single company. I had a chance to reflect on [00:07:00] the 21 years and believe it or not, I started to write my memoirs and I got, you know what I realize now in hindsight, it was actually an emotional catharsis of kind of purging. What did I learn? And I asked, it was 80 pages into it writing. He was a vignette and I would write lessons learned from each of those experiences and what I realized truly the hair was standing up and back of my neck. On page 80 there was a pattern I had never recognized in my career and I realized no one else had recognized [00:07:30] it either and either I was very wrong or there might be some truth and here was the pattern in silicon valley since the beginning we had treated startups like they were smaller versions of large companies. Speaker 5: Everything a large company did. The investment wisdom was, well they write business plans, you write business plans, they organize sales, marketing and Bizdev and you do that. They write our income statement, balance sheet and cashflow and do five year plans and then you do that too. Never noticing that. In fact that distinction, and no one had ever said this [00:08:00] before, what large companies do is execute known business models and the emphasis is on execution, on process. What a known business model means is we know who our customer is, we know how to sell it, we know who competitors are. We know what pride in an existing company it's existing cause somebody in the dim past figured that stuff out. But what a startup is doing is not executing. You think you're executing. That's what they told you to go do, but reality you failed most of the time because you were actually searching [00:08:30] for something. Speaker 5: You were just guessing in front of my students here at Berkeley and at Stanford I used the word, you have a series of hypotheses that are untested, but that's a fancy word for you're just guessing. And so the real insight was somebody needed to come up with a set of tools for startups that were different than the tools that were being taught on how to run and manage existing corporations. And that tool set in distinction at the turn of the century didn't exist. That is 1999 [00:09:00] there was not even a language to describe what I just said and I decided to embark on building the equivalent of the management stack that large corporations have for founders and early stage ventures. Speaker 6: Mm, Speaker 7: [00:09:30] yeah. Speaker 8: You are listening to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. Steve Blank is our guest. He is an entrepreneur and lecturer at the hospital of business. In the next segment of your talks about collaborating with the National Science Foundation Speaker 9: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:10:00] So when you're advising scientists and engineers who think they might be interested in trying to do a startup, what do you tell them they need to know about business and business people? Okay. Speaker 5: It's funny you mentioned scientists and engineers because I didn't know too many years in my career. I mean I sold to them as customers, [00:10:30] but in the last three or four years I got to know some of the top scientists in the u s for a very funny experience. Can I tell you what happened? It turned out that this methodology, I've been talking about how to build startups efficiently with customer development and agile engineering and one other piece called the business model canvas. This theory ended up being called the lean startup. One of my students, Eric Reese and I had actually invested in his company and then actually made him sit for my class at Berkeley because his cofounder, [00:11:00] the lost my money last time I invested. I said, no, no, sit through my class. And of course his co founder was slow to get it, but Eric got it in a second, but came the first practitioner of customer development, the first lean startup practitioner in the world. Speaker 5: Eric got it so much he became the Johnny Appleseed of the idea. In fact, it was actually Ericson side, the customer development. Then agile development went together and he named it the lean startup. But even though we had this theory, the practice was really kind of hard. It was like liking the furniture and Ikea until you got the pieces at home [00:11:30] and then realized it was Kinda hard to assemble. So I decided to do is take the pieces and teach entrepreneurs in a way they have never been taught before on how to start a company. Now this requires a two minutes sidebar. Can I give you? It turns out one of the other thing that I've been involved with is entrepreneurial education as I teach here at Haas, but I also teach at Stanford at UCF and a Columbia, but entrepreneurship used to be kind of a province, mostly of business schools and we used [00:12:00] to teach entrepreneurs just like they were accountants. Speaker 5: No one ever noticed that accountants don't run startups. It's a big idea. No one ever noticed. That's the g. We don't teach artists that way and we don't teach brain surgeons that way. That is sit in the class, read these cases like you were in the law school and somehow you'll get smarter and know how to be an operating CEO of an early stage venture. Now with this, you have to understand that when I was an entrepreneur, rapacious was applied word to describe my behavior and my friends who knew me as an entrepreneur [00:12:30] would laugh when they realized that was an educator and say, Steve, you were born entrepreneur. You knew you can't teach entrepreneurship. You can't be taught. You were born that way. Now since I was teaching entrepreneurship, this set of somewhat of a conundrum in my head, and I pondered this for a couple of years until I realized it's the question everybody asks, but it was the wrong question. Speaker 5: Of course you could teach entrepreneurship. The question is that we've never asked is who can you teach it to and that once you frame the question that way you start [00:13:00] slapping your forehead because you realize that founders of companies, they're not like accountants or MBAs. I mean they were engineers, they might be by training and background, but founders, visionaries, they're closer to artists than anybody else in the world and we now know how to teach artists for the last 500 years since the renaissance. How do we teach artists what we teach them theory, but then we immerse them in experiential practice until they're blue in the face or the hands fall off or they never want to look at another [00:13:30] brusher instrument or write another novel again in their life. We just beat them to death as apprentices, but we get their hands dirty or brain surgeons. Speaker 5: You have, they go to school, but there's no way you'd ever want to go to a doctor who hadn't cracked open chest or skulls or whatever or a surgeon, but we were teaching entrepreneurship like somehow you could read it from the book. My class at Stanford was one of the first experiential, hands-on, immersive float body experience and I mean immersive is that basically [00:14:00] we train our teams in theory that they're going to frame hypotheses with something called the business model canvas from a very smart guide named Alexander Osterwalder. They were going to test those hypotheses by getting outside the building outside the university, outside their lab, outside of anywhere and talk. I bought eyeball to 10 to 15 customers a week. People they've never met and start validating or invalidating those hypotheses and they were going to in parallel build as much of the product as [00:14:30] they can with this iterative and incremental development using agile engineering, whether it was hardware or software or medical device, it doesn't matter. Speaker 5: I want you to start building this thing and also be testing that. Now, this worked pretty well for 20 and 22 year olds students with hoodies and flip flops. But it was open question. If this would work with scientists and engineers, and about three years ago I was driving on campus and I got a call and then went like this, hi Steve, you don't know me. My name is heirarchical lick. I'm the head of the National Science Foundation [00:15:00] SBR program. We're from the U s government. We're calling you because we need your help. And because I was still a little bit of a jerk, I said, the government got my help during Vietnam. I'm not giving it an anymore. And he went, no, no, no, no. We're talking about your class. I went, how do you know about my class? They said, well, you've clogged every session of it. Speaker 5: And I just tend to open source everything I do, which is a luxury I have, not being a tenured professor, you know, I, I think giving back to our community is one of the things that silicon valley excels [00:15:30] at. And I was mentored and tutored by people who gave back. And so therefore since I can't do it, I give back by open sourcing almost everything I do. If I learn it and my slides are out there and I write about it and I teach them. And so I was sharing the experiences of teaching this first class. I didn't realize there were 25 people at the National Science Foundation following every class session. And I didn't even know who the National Science Foundation was. And I had to explain what Steve, we give away $7 billion [00:16:00] a year. We're the group that funds all basic science in universities in the u s where we're on number two to the National Institute of Health, which is the largest funder of medical and research in the u s and that's great. Speaker 5: So why are you calling? We want you to do this class for the government. I said, for the government, and I thought, you guys just fund bigger. He said, no, we're, we're under a mandate from theU s congress. All research organizations is that if any scientist wants to commercialize their basic research, we have programs called the spr and STTR programs that [00:16:30] give anywhere from $500,000 in the first phase or up to three quarters of a million dollars in phase two or more for scientists who want to build companies. Well, why are you calling me? And they're all nicely said, well thank God Congress doesn't actually ask how well those teams are doing. And I said, what do you mean? He said, well, we're essentially giving away cars without requiring drivers Ed and you can imagine the results. And I said, okay, but what did you see in what I'm doing? Speaker 5: He said, Steve, you've invented the scientific [00:17:00] method for entrepreneurship. We want you to teach scientists. They already know the scientific method. Our insight here is they'll get what you're doing in a second. You just need to teach them how to do it outside the building. And so within 90 days I've got a bunch of my VC friends, John Fiber and Jim Horton follow and a Jerry angle and a bunch of others. And we put together a class for the national science foundation as a prototype. They got 25 teams headed up by principal investigators in material science and robotics and computer science and fluidics and teams [00:17:30] of three from around the country. And we put them through this 10 week process and we trained scientists how to get outside the building and test hypotheses. And the results were spectacular. So much so that the NSF made it a permanent program. Speaker 5: I trained professors from Georgia tech and university of Michigan who then went off to train 15 other universities. It's now the third largest accelerator in the world. We just passed 300 teams of her best scientists. Well, let me exhale and tell you the next step, which really got interesting. This worked for [00:18:00] National Science Foundation, but I had said that this would never work for life sciences because life sciences therapeutics, cancer, dry. I mean, you know, you get a paper and sell nature and science and maybe 15 years later, you know, something happens and she, you know, what's the problem? If you cure cancer, you don't have a problem finding customers. But at the same time I've been saying this, you CSF, which is probably the leading biotech university in the world here in San Francisco, was chasing me to actually put on this class for them. And I kept saying, no, you don't [00:18:30] understand. Speaker 5: I say it doesn't work. And they said, Steve, we are the experts in this. We say it does. And finally they called my bluff and said, well, why don't you get out of the building with us and talk to some of the leading venture capitalists in this area who basically educated me that said, look, the traditional model of drug companies for Pharma has broken down. They're now looking for partnerships, Obamacare and the new healthcare laws have changed how reimbursement works. Digital health is an emerging field, you know, medical devices. Those economics have changed. So we decided [00:19:00] to hold the class for life sciences, which is really a misnomer. It was a class for four very distinct fields for therapeutics, diagnostics, devices, and digital health. How to use CSF in October, 2013 is an experiment. First we didn't know if anyone would be interested because I know like the NSF, we weren't going to pay the teams. Speaker 5: We were going to make them pay nominal tuition and GCSF and we were going after clinicians and researchers and they have day jobs. Well, surprisingly we had 78 teams apply for 25 slots and we took 26 [00:19:30] teams including Colbert Harris, who was the head of surgery of ucs, f y Kerrison, the inventor of fetal surgery. Two teams didn't even tell Genentech they were sneaking out at night taking the class as well. And the results, I have to tell you, I still smile when I talk about this, exceeded everybody's wildest expectations such that we went back to Washington, took the results to the National Institute of Health and something tells me that in 2014 the National Institute of Health will probably be the next major government organization to adopt [00:20:00] this class in this process. Again, none of this guarantees success and these are all gonna turn into winners. What it does is actually allow teams to fail fast, allows us to be incredibly effective about the amount of cash we spent because we could figure out where the mistakes are rather than just insisting that we're right, but we now have a process that we've actually tested. Speaker 5: Well, I got a call from the National Science Foundation about six months ago that said, Steve, we thought we tell you we need to stop the experiment. And I thought, why? [00:20:30] What do you mean? Well, we got some data back on the effectiveness of the class. He said, well, we didn't believe the numbers. You know us. We told you we've been running this SBI our program for 30 years and what happens to the teams who want to get funded after? It's kind of a double blind review. People don't know who they are. They review their proposals and they on average got funded 18% of the time. Teams that actually have taken this class get funded 60% of the time. I thought we might've improved effectiveness 10 20% but this is a 300% [00:21:00] now let's be clear. It wasn't. That was some liquidity event mode as they went public. Speaker 5: It was just a good precursor on a march to how much did they know about customers and channels and partners and product market fit, et Cetera, and for the first time somebody had actually instrumented the process. So much so that the national science foundation now requires anybody applying for a grant. It's no longer an option to get out of the building and talk to 30 customers before they could even show up at the conference to get funded. That was kind of the science side and that's still going on and [00:21:30] I'm kind of proud that we might've made a dent in how the government thinks for national science foundation stuff, commercialization and how the National Institute of Health might be thinking of what's called translational medicine, but running those are 127 clinicians and researchers through the f program was really kind of amazing. Speaker 2: [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:22:00] [inaudible] Speaker 8: spectrum is a public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley. Our guest is Steve Blank electrode at UC Berkeley's Haas School of business. In the next segment, he goes into more detail about the lean startup, also known as the lean launchpad Speaker 2: [00:22:30] [inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 4: with your launchpad startup launchpad. Is that, Speaker 5: well, there's two things. The class is called the lean launchpad lean launch and the software [00:23:00] we built for the National Science Foundation and now we use in classes and for corporations it's called launchpad central. We've basically built software that for the first time allows us to manage and view the innovation process as we go. Think of it as salesforce.com which is sales automation tool for salespeople. We now have a tool for the first time for entrepreneurs and the people working with them and managing them and trying to keep track of them and we just crossed 3000 teams who are using the software and I [00:23:30] use it in everything I teach and dude, Speaker 4: how long does the class take for a scientist or engineer who might be trying to think about, well, what's the time sink here? Yeah, Speaker 5: there's a shock to the system version, which I taught at cal tech and now teach twice a year at Columbia, which is days, 10 hours a day. But the ones that we teach from national science foundation, one I teach at Stanford and Berkeley, Stanford, it's a quarter at Berkeley semester from the NSF. It depends. It's about an eight to 10 week class. You could do this over a period of time. There's no magic. [00:24:00] There is kind of the magic and quantity to people you talk to and it's just a law of numbers. You talk to 10 people, I doubt you're going to find any real insight in that data. It talked to a thousand people. You know, you're probably, if you still haven't found the repeatable pattern, probably 20 [inaudible] too many or Tenex, too many a hundred just seem to be kind of a good centroid. And what you're really looking for is what we call product market fit. Speaker 5: And there are other pieces of the business model that are important. But the first two things you're writing at is, are you building something [00:24:30] that people care about? Am I care about? I don't mean say, oh, that's nice. I mean is when you show it to them, do they grab it out of your hands or grab you by the collar and say you're not leaving until I can have this. Oh, and by the way, if you built the right thing or your ideas and the right place, you will find those people. That's not a sign of a public offering, but it's at least a sign that you're on the right track. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 3: [00:25:00] [inaudible] Speaker 8: be sure to catch part two of this interview with Steve Blank in two weeks on spectrum. [00:25:30] In that interview, Steve Talks more about the lean launch pad, the challenge of innovation, Speaker 10: modern commerce, the evolution of entrepreneurship and the pace of technology. Steve's website is a trove of information and resources. Go to Steve Blank, all one word.com Steve Aalto, I mentioned the lean launchpad course available Speaker 2: on you, Udacity. That's you. [00:26:00] udacity.com Speaker 8: spectrum shows are archived on iTunes university. We have created a simple link for you. The link is tiny url.com/k a l ex spectrum Speaker 2: [00:26:30] [inaudible]. Speaker 10: Now a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next two weeks. Naoshima joins me for the calendar. Speaker 1: Dr Claire Kremen. Our previous guest on spectrum is a professor in the Environmental Science Policy and management department at UCB. She is the CO director of the center [00:27:00] for diversified farming systems and a co faculty director of the Berkeley Food Institute. Claire [inaudible] will be giving a talk on Monday, March 10th at 3:00 PM in Morgan Hall Lounge. She will be talking about pollinators as a poster child for diversified farming systems. Dr Kremlin's research on pollinators has attracted national news coverage and is of great importance to California agriculture. The talk will be followed by a reception with snacks and drinks. Again, this will be Monday, March 10th at 3:00 PM in Morgan Hall Lounge. Speaker 6: [00:27:30] Okay. Speaker 4: The science of cal lecture for March will be delivered by Dr Troy Leonberger. The topic is genetics. The lecture is Saturday, March 15th at 11:00 AM in room one 59 of Mulford Hall. Now a single news story presented by Neha Shah Speaker 1: just over a week ago. You see Berkeley's own. Jennifer Doudna, a professor of several biology and chemistry classes at cal, was awarded [00:28:00] the lorry prize in the biomedical sciences for her work on revealing the structure of RNA and its roles in gene therapy. Doudna will receive the Lurie metal and $100,000 award this May in Washington DC. The Lurie Prize is awarded by the foundation for the National Institutes of health and this is its second year of annually recognizing young scientists in the biomedical field. Doudna was originally intrigued by the 1980 breakthrough that RNA could serve as enzymes. In contrast to the previously accepted notion that RNA was [00:28:30] exclusively for protein production. Downness is work today with RNA deals specifically with a protein known as cas nine which can target and cut parts of the DNA of invading viruses. Doudna and her collaborators made use of this knowledge of cast nine to develop a technique to edit genes which will hopefully lead to strides in human gene therapy. Dowden is delighted by her recent recognition and confident in the future of RNA research and the medical developments that will follow Speaker 6: [inaudible].Speaker 10: [00:29:00] The music heard during the show was written and produced by Alex Simon. Speaker 7: Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them. Speaker 9: All [00:29:30] right. Email address is spectrum to klx@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Blank, lecturer Haas School of Business UCB. He has been a entrepreneur in Silicon Valley since the 1970s. He has been teaching and developing curriculum for entrepreneurship training. Built a method for high tech startups, the Lean LaunchPad.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a [00:00:30] l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews, featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news [inaudible]. Speaker 4: Hi, and good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Today we present part one of two interviews with Steve Blank, a lecturer at the Haas School of business at UC Berkeley. Steve has been a serial entrepreneur in silicon valley since the late 1970s [00:01:00] see if you recognize any of these companies. He was involved with Xylog convergent technologies, MIPS, computer, ardent, super Mack, rocket science games and epiphany. In 1999 Steve Retired from day to day involvement in running a company since 2002 he has been teaching and developing curriculum for entrepreneurship training. By 2011 he was said to have devised [00:01:30] the scientific method for launching high tech startups, dubbed the Lean launch pad. In part one Steve Talks about his beginnings, the culture of Silicon Valley, the intersection of science, technology, finance, and business. Steve Blank, welcome to spectrum. Oh, thanks for having me. I wanted to find out from you how it is you got started as an entrepreneur. What attracted you to that? Speaker 5: He's probably the military. I, uh, spent four years in the air [00:02:00] force during Vietnam and a year and a half in Southeast Asia. And then when I came back to the United States, I worked on a B, 52 bombers in the strategic air command. And I finally years later understood the difference between working in a crisis organization, which was in a war zone where almost anything was acceptable to get the job done versus an execution organization that was dealing with mistakes. Men dropping a 20 megaton nuclear weapon where you process and procedure was actually imperative. And it turned [00:02:30] out I was much better in the organizations that required creativity and agility and tenacity and resilience. And I never understood that I was getting the world's best training for entrepreneurship. I went back to school in Ann Arbor and managed to get thrown out the second time in my life out of University of Michigan. Speaker 5: I call that the best school I was ever thrown out of a Michigan state was the next best school where it was a premed. And then, um, I was sent out to silicon valley. I was working as a field service engineer and what I didn't realize two years later was 16% [00:03:00] startup to bring up a computer system in a place called San Jose. And San Jose was so unknown that my admin got us tickets for San Jose, Puerto Rico until I said, I think it's not out of the country. I came out there to do a job to install a process control system. I thought it was some kind of joke is that there were 45 pages of advertisements in the newspaper at the time for scientists, engineers, et cetera. And I flew back and quit, got a job at my first startup in Silicon Valley [00:03:30] and subsequently I did eight of them in 21 years. Speaker 5: What were some of the ones that stand out out of the eight? You know, I had some great successes. There were four IPOs out of the eight, I'd say one or two. I had something to do with the others. I was just kinda standing there when the safe fell on the guy in front of me and the money dropped down and I got to pick it up. But honestly, in hindsight, and I can now say this only in hindsight, I learned the most from some of the failures though I wouldn't tell you why I wanted to learn that at the time, but failing [00:04:00] and failing hard when it was absolutely clear it was your fault and no one else's forced me to go through the stages of denial and then blame others and then whatever. And then acceptance and then ultimately kind of some real learning about how to build early stage ventures. Speaker 5: You know, I blew my Nixon last company, I was on the cover of wired magazine and 90 days after the cover I realized my company was going out of business and eventually did. And I called my mother who was a Russian immigrant and every time I spoke to my mother I [00:04:30] had to pause because English wasn't her first language. And you know, I'd say something and pause and then she'd say something back and pause. And whenever I said, mom, I lost 35 million hours, pause. And then she said, where'd you put it? I said, no, no, no mom, I'm calling you to tell you none of them was 30 I didn't even get the next sentence out. Cause then she went, oh my gosh, she wants $35 million. We can't even change your name. It's already plank. And then she started thinking about it and she said, and the country we came from [00:05:00] is gone. Speaker 5: There's no fast to go. I said, no, no mom though. What I'm trying to tell you is that the people gave me $35 million, just give me another $12 million to do the next startup. And it was in comprehensible because what I find when I talked to foreign visitors to silicon valley or to any entrepreneurial cluster, you know, we have a special name for failed entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Do you know what it is? Experienced? It's a big idea in the u s around entrepreneurial clusters, failure equals experience. [00:05:30] People don't ask you if you change your name or have to leave town or you're going to go bankrupt, et cetera. The first thing your best friend will ask you is, so what's your next startup? That's an amazing part of this culture that we've built here and that's what happened to me. My last startup, I returned $1 billion each to those two investors and it's not a story about me, it's a story about the ecosystem that we live in that's both supremely American and supremely capitalists, but also Sir Pulliam clustered in just [00:06:00] a few locations in the United States where there are clear reasons why one succeeded to some fail. Speaker 5: You know, when I retired from my last one, I decided that after eight startups in 21 years, my company was about to go public and my kids were seven and eight years old at the time and luckily we had children when I was in my late thirties and so therefore I got to watch people I admired incredibly at work, watch how they dealt with their families. And what was surprising [00:06:30] is that most of them had feet of clay when it came to home. They basically focused 100% of their efforts at work and as their kids grew up, their kids hated them. I kind of remember that in the back of my head, and so when I had the opportunity to retire, I said, I want to watch my kids grow up. And so I did. And that's a preambled answer your question. That's at the end. Speaker 5: For the first time in my life, my head wasn't down completely inside trying to execute in a single company. I had a chance to reflect on [00:07:00] the 21 years and believe it or not, I started to write my memoirs and I got, you know what I realize now in hindsight, it was actually an emotional catharsis of kind of purging. What did I learn? And I asked, it was 80 pages into it writing. He was a vignette and I would write lessons learned from each of those experiences and what I realized truly the hair was standing up and back of my neck. On page 80 there was a pattern I had never recognized in my career and I realized no one else had recognized [00:07:30] it either and either I was very wrong or there might be some truth and here was the pattern in silicon valley since the beginning we had treated startups like they were smaller versions of large companies. Speaker 5: Everything a large company did. The investment wisdom was, well they write business plans, you write business plans, they organize sales, marketing and Bizdev and you do that. They write our income statement, balance sheet and cashflow and do five year plans and then you do that too. Never noticing that. In fact that distinction, and no one had ever said this [00:08:00] before, what large companies do is execute known business models and the emphasis is on execution, on process. What a known business model means is we know who our customer is, we know how to sell it, we know who competitors are. We know what pride in an existing company it's existing cause somebody in the dim past figured that stuff out. But what a startup is doing is not executing. You think you're executing. That's what they told you to go do, but reality you failed most of the time because you were actually searching [00:08:30] for something. Speaker 5: You were just guessing in front of my students here at Berkeley and at Stanford I used the word, you have a series of hypotheses that are untested, but that's a fancy word for you're just guessing. And so the real insight was somebody needed to come up with a set of tools for startups that were different than the tools that were being taught on how to run and manage existing corporations. And that tool set in distinction at the turn of the century didn't exist. That is 1999 [00:09:00] there was not even a language to describe what I just said and I decided to embark on building the equivalent of the management stack that large corporations have for founders and early stage ventures. Speaker 6: Mm, Speaker 7: [00:09:30] yeah. Speaker 8: You are listening to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. Steve Blank is our guest. He is an entrepreneur and lecturer at the hospital of business. In the next segment of your talks about collaborating with the National Science Foundation Speaker 9: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:10:00] So when you're advising scientists and engineers who think they might be interested in trying to do a startup, what do you tell them they need to know about business and business people? Okay. Speaker 5: It's funny you mentioned scientists and engineers because I didn't know too many years in my career. I mean I sold to them as customers, [00:10:30] but in the last three or four years I got to know some of the top scientists in the u s for a very funny experience. Can I tell you what happened? It turned out that this methodology, I've been talking about how to build startups efficiently with customer development and agile engineering and one other piece called the business model canvas. This theory ended up being called the lean startup. One of my students, Eric Reese and I had actually invested in his company and then actually made him sit for my class at Berkeley because his cofounder, [00:11:00] the lost my money last time I invested. I said, no, no, sit through my class. And of course his co founder was slow to get it, but Eric got it in a second, but came the first practitioner of customer development, the first lean startup practitioner in the world. Speaker 5: Eric got it so much he became the Johnny Appleseed of the idea. In fact, it was actually Ericson side, the customer development. Then agile development went together and he named it the lean startup. But even though we had this theory, the practice was really kind of hard. It was like liking the furniture and Ikea until you got the pieces at home [00:11:30] and then realized it was Kinda hard to assemble. So I decided to do is take the pieces and teach entrepreneurs in a way they have never been taught before on how to start a company. Now this requires a two minutes sidebar. Can I give you? It turns out one of the other thing that I've been involved with is entrepreneurial education as I teach here at Haas, but I also teach at Stanford at UCF and a Columbia, but entrepreneurship used to be kind of a province, mostly of business schools and we used [00:12:00] to teach entrepreneurs just like they were accountants. Speaker 5: No one ever noticed that accountants don't run startups. It's a big idea. No one ever noticed. That's the g. We don't teach artists that way and we don't teach brain surgeons that way. That is sit in the class, read these cases like you were in the law school and somehow you'll get smarter and know how to be an operating CEO of an early stage venture. Now with this, you have to understand that when I was an entrepreneur, rapacious was applied word to describe my behavior and my friends who knew me as an entrepreneur [00:12:30] would laugh when they realized that was an educator and say, Steve, you were born entrepreneur. You knew you can't teach entrepreneurship. You can't be taught. You were born that way. Now since I was teaching entrepreneurship, this set of somewhat of a conundrum in my head, and I pondered this for a couple of years until I realized it's the question everybody asks, but it was the wrong question. Speaker 5: Of course you could teach entrepreneurship. The question is that we've never asked is who can you teach it to and that once you frame the question that way you start [00:13:00] slapping your forehead because you realize that founders of companies, they're not like accountants or MBAs. I mean they were engineers, they might be by training and background, but founders, visionaries, they're closer to artists than anybody else in the world and we now know how to teach artists for the last 500 years since the renaissance. How do we teach artists what we teach them theory, but then we immerse them in experiential practice until they're blue in the face or the hands fall off or they never want to look at another [00:13:30] brusher instrument or write another novel again in their life. We just beat them to death as apprentices, but we get their hands dirty or brain surgeons. Speaker 5: You have, they go to school, but there's no way you'd ever want to go to a doctor who hadn't cracked open chest or skulls or whatever or a surgeon, but we were teaching entrepreneurship like somehow you could read it from the book. My class at Stanford was one of the first experiential, hands-on, immersive float body experience and I mean immersive is that basically [00:14:00] we train our teams in theory that they're going to frame hypotheses with something called the business model canvas from a very smart guide named Alexander Osterwalder. They were going to test those hypotheses by getting outside the building outside the university, outside their lab, outside of anywhere and talk. I bought eyeball to 10 to 15 customers a week. People they've never met and start validating or invalidating those hypotheses and they were going to in parallel build as much of the product as [00:14:30] they can with this iterative and incremental development using agile engineering, whether it was hardware or software or medical device, it doesn't matter. Speaker 5: I want you to start building this thing and also be testing that. Now, this worked pretty well for 20 and 22 year olds students with hoodies and flip flops. But it was open question. If this would work with scientists and engineers, and about three years ago I was driving on campus and I got a call and then went like this, hi Steve, you don't know me. My name is heirarchical lick. I'm the head of the National Science Foundation [00:15:00] SBR program. We're from the U s government. We're calling you because we need your help. And because I was still a little bit of a jerk, I said, the government got my help during Vietnam. I'm not giving it an anymore. And he went, no, no, no, no. We're talking about your class. I went, how do you know about my class? They said, well, you've clogged every session of it. Speaker 5: And I just tend to open source everything I do, which is a luxury I have, not being a tenured professor, you know, I, I think giving back to our community is one of the things that silicon valley excels [00:15:30] at. And I was mentored and tutored by people who gave back. And so therefore since I can't do it, I give back by open sourcing almost everything I do. If I learn it and my slides are out there and I write about it and I teach them. And so I was sharing the experiences of teaching this first class. I didn't realize there were 25 people at the National Science Foundation following every class session. And I didn't even know who the National Science Foundation was. And I had to explain what Steve, we give away $7 billion [00:16:00] a year. We're the group that funds all basic science in universities in the u s where we're on number two to the National Institute of Health, which is the largest funder of medical and research in the u s and that's great. Speaker 5: So why are you calling? We want you to do this class for the government. I said, for the government, and I thought, you guys just fund bigger. He said, no, we're, we're under a mandate from theU s congress. All research organizations is that if any scientist wants to commercialize their basic research, we have programs called the spr and STTR programs that [00:16:30] give anywhere from $500,000 in the first phase or up to three quarters of a million dollars in phase two or more for scientists who want to build companies. Well, why are you calling me? And they're all nicely said, well thank God Congress doesn't actually ask how well those teams are doing. And I said, what do you mean? He said, well, we're essentially giving away cars without requiring drivers Ed and you can imagine the results. And I said, okay, but what did you see in what I'm doing? Speaker 5: He said, Steve, you've invented the scientific [00:17:00] method for entrepreneurship. We want you to teach scientists. They already know the scientific method. Our insight here is they'll get what you're doing in a second. You just need to teach them how to do it outside the building. And so within 90 days I've got a bunch of my VC friends, John Fiber and Jim Horton follow and a Jerry angle and a bunch of others. And we put together a class for the national science foundation as a prototype. They got 25 teams headed up by principal investigators in material science and robotics and computer science and fluidics and teams [00:17:30] of three from around the country. And we put them through this 10 week process and we trained scientists how to get outside the building and test hypotheses. And the results were spectacular. So much so that the NSF made it a permanent program. Speaker 5: I trained professors from Georgia tech and university of Michigan who then went off to train 15 other universities. It's now the third largest accelerator in the world. We just passed 300 teams of her best scientists. Well, let me exhale and tell you the next step, which really got interesting. This worked for [00:18:00] National Science Foundation, but I had said that this would never work for life sciences because life sciences therapeutics, cancer, dry. I mean, you know, you get a paper and sell nature and science and maybe 15 years later, you know, something happens and she, you know, what's the problem? If you cure cancer, you don't have a problem finding customers. But at the same time I've been saying this, you CSF, which is probably the leading biotech university in the world here in San Francisco, was chasing me to actually put on this class for them. And I kept saying, no, you don't [00:18:30] understand. Speaker 5: I say it doesn't work. And they said, Steve, we are the experts in this. We say it does. And finally they called my bluff and said, well, why don't you get out of the building with us and talk to some of the leading venture capitalists in this area who basically educated me that said, look, the traditional model of drug companies for Pharma has broken down. They're now looking for partnerships, Obamacare and the new healthcare laws have changed how reimbursement works. Digital health is an emerging field, you know, medical devices. Those economics have changed. So we decided [00:19:00] to hold the class for life sciences, which is really a misnomer. It was a class for four very distinct fields for therapeutics, diagnostics, devices, and digital health. How to use CSF in October, 2013 is an experiment. First we didn't know if anyone would be interested because I know like the NSF, we weren't going to pay the teams. Speaker 5: We were going to make them pay nominal tuition and GCSF and we were going after clinicians and researchers and they have day jobs. Well, surprisingly we had 78 teams apply for 25 slots and we took 26 [00:19:30] teams including Colbert Harris, who was the head of surgery of ucs, f y Kerrison, the inventor of fetal surgery. Two teams didn't even tell Genentech they were sneaking out at night taking the class as well. And the results, I have to tell you, I still smile when I talk about this, exceeded everybody's wildest expectations such that we went back to Washington, took the results to the National Institute of Health and something tells me that in 2014 the National Institute of Health will probably be the next major government organization to adopt [00:20:00] this class in this process. Again, none of this guarantees success and these are all gonna turn into winners. What it does is actually allow teams to fail fast, allows us to be incredibly effective about the amount of cash we spent because we could figure out where the mistakes are rather than just insisting that we're right, but we now have a process that we've actually tested. Speaker 5: Well, I got a call from the National Science Foundation about six months ago that said, Steve, we thought we tell you we need to stop the experiment. And I thought, why? [00:20:30] What do you mean? Well, we got some data back on the effectiveness of the class. He said, well, we didn't believe the numbers. You know us. We told you we've been running this SBI our program for 30 years and what happens to the teams who want to get funded after? It's kind of a double blind review. People don't know who they are. They review their proposals and they on average got funded 18% of the time. Teams that actually have taken this class get funded 60% of the time. I thought we might've improved effectiveness 10 20% but this is a 300% [00:21:00] now let's be clear. It wasn't. That was some liquidity event mode as they went public. Speaker 5: It was just a good precursor on a march to how much did they know about customers and channels and partners and product market fit, et Cetera, and for the first time somebody had actually instrumented the process. So much so that the national science foundation now requires anybody applying for a grant. It's no longer an option to get out of the building and talk to 30 customers before they could even show up at the conference to get funded. That was kind of the science side and that's still going on and [00:21:30] I'm kind of proud that we might've made a dent in how the government thinks for national science foundation stuff, commercialization and how the National Institute of Health might be thinking of what's called translational medicine, but running those are 127 clinicians and researchers through the f program was really kind of amazing. Speaker 2: [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:22:00] [inaudible] Speaker 8: spectrum is a public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley. Our guest is Steve Blank electrode at UC Berkeley's Haas School of business. In the next segment, he goes into more detail about the lean startup, also known as the lean launchpad Speaker 2: [00:22:30] [inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 4: with your launchpad startup launchpad. Is that, Speaker 5: well, there's two things. The class is called the lean launchpad lean launch and the software [00:23:00] we built for the National Science Foundation and now we use in classes and for corporations it's called launchpad central. We've basically built software that for the first time allows us to manage and view the innovation process as we go. Think of it as salesforce.com which is sales automation tool for salespeople. We now have a tool for the first time for entrepreneurs and the people working with them and managing them and trying to keep track of them and we just crossed 3000 teams who are using the software and I [00:23:30] use it in everything I teach and dude, Speaker 4: how long does the class take for a scientist or engineer who might be trying to think about, well, what's the time sink here? Yeah, Speaker 5: there's a shock to the system version, which I taught at cal tech and now teach twice a year at Columbia, which is days, 10 hours a day. But the ones that we teach from national science foundation, one I teach at Stanford and Berkeley, Stanford, it's a quarter at Berkeley semester from the NSF. It depends. It's about an eight to 10 week class. You could do this over a period of time. There's no magic. [00:24:00] There is kind of the magic and quantity to people you talk to and it's just a law of numbers. You talk to 10 people, I doubt you're going to find any real insight in that data. It talked to a thousand people. You know, you're probably, if you still haven't found the repeatable pattern, probably 20 [inaudible] too many or Tenex, too many a hundred just seem to be kind of a good centroid. And what you're really looking for is what we call product market fit. Speaker 5: And there are other pieces of the business model that are important. But the first two things you're writing at is, are you building something [00:24:30] that people care about? Am I care about? I don't mean say, oh, that's nice. I mean is when you show it to them, do they grab it out of your hands or grab you by the collar and say you're not leaving until I can have this. Oh, and by the way, if you built the right thing or your ideas and the right place, you will find those people. That's not a sign of a public offering, but it's at least a sign that you're on the right track. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 3: [00:25:00] [inaudible] Speaker 8: be sure to catch part two of this interview with Steve Blank in two weeks on spectrum. [00:25:30] In that interview, Steve Talks more about the lean launch pad, the challenge of innovation, Speaker 10: modern commerce, the evolution of entrepreneurship and the pace of technology. Steve's website is a trove of information and resources. Go to Steve Blank, all one word.com Steve Aalto, I mentioned the lean launchpad course available Speaker 2: on you, Udacity. That's you. [00:26:00] udacity.com Speaker 8: spectrum shows are archived on iTunes university. We have created a simple link for you. The link is tiny url.com/k a l ex spectrum Speaker 2: [00:26:30] [inaudible]. Speaker 10: Now a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next two weeks. Naoshima joins me for the calendar. Speaker 1: Dr Claire Kremen. Our previous guest on spectrum is a professor in the Environmental Science Policy and management department at UCB. She is the CO director of the center [00:27:00] for diversified farming systems and a co faculty director of the Berkeley Food Institute. Claire [inaudible] will be giving a talk on Monday, March 10th at 3:00 PM in Morgan Hall Lounge. She will be talking about pollinators as a poster child for diversified farming systems. Dr Kremlin's research on pollinators has attracted national news coverage and is of great importance to California agriculture. The talk will be followed by a reception with snacks and drinks. Again, this will be Monday, March 10th at 3:00 PM in Morgan Hall Lounge. Speaker 6: [00:27:30] Okay. Speaker 4: The science of cal lecture for March will be delivered by Dr Troy Leonberger. The topic is genetics. The lecture is Saturday, March 15th at 11:00 AM in room one 59 of Mulford Hall. Now a single news story presented by Neha Shah Speaker 1: just over a week ago. You see Berkeley's own. Jennifer Doudna, a professor of several biology and chemistry classes at cal, was awarded [00:28:00] the lorry prize in the biomedical sciences for her work on revealing the structure of RNA and its roles in gene therapy. Doudna will receive the Lurie metal and $100,000 award this May in Washington DC. The Lurie Prize is awarded by the foundation for the National Institutes of health and this is its second year of annually recognizing young scientists in the biomedical field. Doudna was originally intrigued by the 1980 breakthrough that RNA could serve as enzymes. In contrast to the previously accepted notion that RNA was [00:28:30] exclusively for protein production. Downness is work today with RNA deals specifically with a protein known as cas nine which can target and cut parts of the DNA of invading viruses. Doudna and her collaborators made use of this knowledge of cast nine to develop a technique to edit genes which will hopefully lead to strides in human gene therapy. Dowden is delighted by her recent recognition and confident in the future of RNA research and the medical developments that will follow Speaker 6: [inaudible].Speaker 10: [00:29:00] The music heard during the show was written and produced by Alex Simon. Speaker 7: Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them. Speaker 9: All [00:29:30] right. Email address is spectrum to klx@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.