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Jun.G (brandnewtoday) / 9zakuMS

Q1: Lets begin with your brief background and what lead you to start your current job.
After my mischievous school years, I've packed my bag and moved to Vancouver.
I first attended an ESL class and then switched to couple different technical colleges until I found the "last" one.
This one class they have which teaches you how to create sounds using Macintosh strongly attracts me and that is only reason why I have decided to enter this school.
It has turned out that it was the school for website production and which dragged me, who didn't even know how to use e-mail at the time, into this world of internet.
Things went very smooth since then, even for the job hunting. At the Vancouver based design agency, Cowie&Fox, I was able to obtain a position and gained wonderful experiences working with exceptionally talented work-mates which lasted for about 3 and half years.
On the other hand, Shin and I have launched the website "9zaku" as we graduate from the school. It was intended, at the beginning, to be our portfolio site using Flash. But as we develop the idea of creating the intercommunicating space between Japan and Canada,we have decided to shift our concept and launched "9zakuMS".

Q2: Tell us about your recent activities.
"9zaku Mobilesuits" site is still on the web and the stance does not change since the beginning.
Shin does the back-end and I do the design and management. We both belong to different companies at this time, but we will be start working as an unit from this October.

Q3：Who have influenced you the most or who do you respect?
Hirohiko Araki

Q4： How many hours a day do you spend in front of your computer?
Counting hours of not being there should be faster.

Q5：Which one do you like better, Motion Tween or Shape Tween?
Both. Straight forward "Motion" and unpredictable "Shape" are both my favorite.

Q6. What is your best song to boost up your moods?
It depends because I pretty much listen to everything.
Sometimes I like listening to heavy-metal to rock'n roll but I also like to listen to classic music to raise my mood.

Q7：What are the 3 things you have to have in your book bag everyday?
An eye drop, iPodmini, and a pen. I don't like carrying to many things with me.

Q8： If you did not end up being involved in the web businesses, what do you think you would be.
A piano teacher. It is not a joke.

Q9：If you can move abroad today, where would that be and why?
Spain. My boss from Vancouver always talked about it.

Q10：Tell us about your secret specialty.
Pen spinning.

Q11: For the last question, what do you have planned in near future and what you want to do.
Shin and I have been talking about producing an event as 9zaku since we are both back together in Japan finally.
I would also love to do more collaborative project like this 8 project.
As for my personal activity, a programmer + a designer + myself will get together as an design unit to make something very cool happen.

translation by Rika Goto

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