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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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My filming trimaran boat "featured" on instructables.com

My favorite website in the entire world is Instructables.com, I will never have enough enthusiasm to communicate how much I love this website!
Today, I received an email telling my inflatable filming trimaran got featured in the water section!!! YAY!!! 

Check it out!
One day, I want to manufacture it to be a "real traveling machine", to cover very long distance in semi-autonomy, sea-worthy. If anyone wants to be involved with the engineering and manufacturing, leave a comment :)

Yes, feels so good to have your work on your favorite website, I feel like I am 10 years old at Christmas!!!
I did this film back in 2006 when I was studying animation in France at the ENSAD and product design at ENSCI! I have also uploaded a much better version of the film I made with this boat, it is 17 minutes long, it is a short road movie:) Play full screen and the sound LOUD! : 

Filed under  //  sailing   Boat   Canal de Bourgogne   DIY   Design   ENSAD   FIlm   Fabrication   France   Instructables   Inventor   Lyon   Maker   Open_Sailing   Paris   River  
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An old student film of mine "disponible" (available), back in 2005 ENSAD Animation, Paris France. This was actually my master graduation piece, a part of a "package". Now "disponible" in better definition. The idea of the film is :

"The duration of a short trip, 
I get lonely to re-learn to be available, 
aware and questionning what’s around, 
with my camera, i capture what calls me. 
I move with my own energy, in a human rhythm
on earth and on the water."
 
 
This film was made during a 1 month solitary journey thanks to a custom-made bike-boat :
ontheroad.jpg

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Reposting Arvo Part - "Tabula Rasa" - remix and film by Cesar Harada

I posted this video back in 2005 but the quality was really poor, so here it is again, in much better quality! The music is Arvo Part Estonian composer, I re-mixed different tracks from "Tabula Rasa", a truly marvelous album. This was an animation exercise at the ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs) but I took it very seriously. The film is very abstract, but it does connect with a couple of sad - and hopeful - stories of mine.
You can see how this film was made in this instructables.
I'm curious about how this film makes you feel, please share, comment ...

Filed under  //  Animation   Arvo   Classical   ENSAD   Emotion   Estonia   France   Glass   Lens   Milk   Music   Music Video   Optics   Paris   Part   Pixillation   Prism   Psychology   Synchronicity  
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