To my lovely friends
Thankyou for a year filled with warmth.
Now ready to hop, skip & jump into the New Year of the Rabbit.
And just like happy bonking bunnies I’m wishing you all the very best for a productive, bouncing & bountiful 2011!!
All love
Guy

At the Inter FM & TV Tokyo studio’s entrance December 31 2010.

Silly Season’s Greetings & Merry Christmas to all of my lovely friends!!

Guy & Father Christmas at the Inter FM year end party Wednesday 2010.12.22!!
All I want for Christmas is..

My Inter FM co-host Sayoko-san & I saw the Broadway puppet show Avenue Q on Thursday 2010.12.16 at Tokyo Kokusai Forum. In the tradition of the Muppets it combines puppets with actors on stage in a cheeky look at life & the lives of the tennants on Avenue Q New York. The show is fun, funny, quite naughty & it’s the first time I’ve ever seen a puppet naked!!
More info www.avenueqontour.com

Backstage with Avenue Q cast & characters.

The spectacular interior of Tokyo Kokusai Forum.

I had a brilliant Winter’s evening in Hakone to visit my favourite onsen & get in hot water for a year end purifying soak in early December 2010. A stroll through Hakone Yumoto..

Discovered this ghostly house glowing in the dark.

Onsen entrance in Autumn colours.

I’m talking & you’re invited!!

I’ve been invited to talk at a Media Tectonics Seminar on Monday 2010.12.13 at 6:30pm in Minami Aoyama, Tokyo.
I’ll talk about my 30 year’s experience in the radio/media/entertainment biz & share a few of the best (& worst!!) moments with the many celebrities I’ve interviewed over the years.

All details below..

Oh all those years ago.. Guy on the air 1987!!

Guy on the air today..

The “Right Stuff” for Media Entrepreneurs

Date: Monday, December 13, 2010
Place: 2F Wesley Center, 6-10-11 Minami Aoyama.

Our December seminar should give you that extra boost of creativity and inspiration you need before the busy holiday season. We present two irrepressible forces in the media and publishing realms whose work has impressive reach and purpose. If you’ve got lofty goals for changing the world or just wondering how you can make the most of your talents, come hear what they’ve got to say.

Combination Plate #1

“Innovate, Create and Thrive: Music to the Ears of a Media Entrepreneur”

With 30 years’ experience in the radio and entertainment industry (20 of those in Japan), Guy Perryman has witnessed the highs and lows of media mergers, technology shifts and the easily reversed fortunes of one on-air talent after another. How do you keep your bearings in the midst of rapid change and fickle entertainment fads? Guy has some unique insights to share about the need to continually evolve as a creative entrepreneur in order to survive in this ever-changing media world. Through his broadcasts, he has interviewed a galaxy of stars over the years, so he might even share a few of his best (and worst) moments, too.

More About Guy: In 1990 Guy Perryman came to Japan with a three-month DJ contract for the launch of the first Virgin Megastore in Tokyo. Twenty years later he has become a prominent personality in Japanese media and entertainment.

While DJ and program manager for over 30 Virgin Megastores across Japan, he started a satellite radio network for the Virgin Group and has worked closely with Virgin Atlantic Airways, producing in-flight programs and events. Guy’s voice is recognized from many years of hosting prime time programs on Tokyo’s international language music radio station Inter FM and the Japan-wide Mega Net FM network. His celebrity interviews have included Sting, Sir Paul Smith, Richard Branson, Gwen Stefani and many more. His voice has been heard on numerous TV commercials for major brands like Suzuki and Calvin Klein, as well as on animations and games. Guy has also become well known as an event DJ, MC and producer, working with clients like the British Embassy, Park Hyatt Hotel and Moet & Chandon. He created radio:on, a DJ team who launched a nation-wide cable radio station with a studio/bar event space in Tokyo’s swank Aoyama.

Guy is English, was born in Scotland and raised in Singapore and Australia. He continues to explore new media and entertainment with programs and blog reports on his website, www.guyperryman.com.

Combination Plate #2

“Sharing the Ways and Means of Green”

Can you make a difference and a living and have fun doing it? Reina Otsuka certainly does in her role as the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco+waza, a bilingual magazine that shares green trends, knowledge and products from Japan. Eco+waza welds together two ideas—“eco” for ecology and the environment, and “waza” (meaning skill, art or technique in Japanese). Reina and her staff also produce a lively website (www.greenjapan.com) that broadens eco+waza’s audience and markets selected green products. The online newsletter they launched earlier this fall adds another “touch point” with their followers. That’s vital, because according to Reina the green concept is all about sharing and networking.

Reina will tell us how she expresses her vision through the magazine, website and newsletter, how to build a network by mixing analog and digital tools, and how to solve environmental issues by sharing ideas and networking. She’ll also walk us through the eco+waza website and some examples of green innovations from Japan. She mentions, by the way, that eco+waza is looking for freelance writers interested in the ways and means of green. Reina and her team are happy to post eco-related articles and network with writers willing to share inspirations!

More About Reina: Reina is a Japanese national who spent her childhood in the United States and has traveled to around thirty countries. Her goal is to build a bridge between the hidden knowledge Japan holds and the rest of the world. And just before going to press, we watched as Reina accepted the U.S. Ambassador’s Entrepreneur Award at the Entrepreneurship Mentor Initiative (EMI) Roundtable and First Annual “The Entrepreneurs Awards Japan” (TEAJ) on Monday, November 22, at the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so. Congratulations, Reina! Read all about it at Impact Japan.

We look forward to seeing you on December 13. Be sure to RSVP soon. To the Moon and Back Caterers have some special treats lined up.

And please give us a call if you have trouble finding the venue: 090-2451-0697.

The Media Tectonics Team

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Date: Monday, December 13, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m. – dinner and networking (catered by To the Moon & Back); 7 p.m. – seminar begins
Location: Wesley Center, 2F, 6-10-11 Minami-Aoyama
Cost: 3,500 yen (prepaid, by October 15); 4,500 yen at the door
Be sure to take advantage of the prepayment discount, and let us know you’re coming so we can be kind to the environment with an accurate food order!

RSVP e mail: info@mediatectonics.com
More info: www.mediatectonics.com

I interviewed smooth jazz legends Fourplay on Monday 2010.12.6 at the very swank Okura Hotel, Tokyo which has one of my favourite interior spaces – the deco inspired 60’s sci-fi style lobby!! I had to get a snap with the season’s decorations..

Listen to the Fourplay interview in the Lounge set of programs.

I was at the opening of one of my favourite Japanese contemporary artists new exhibition at the Park Hotel, Shiodome, Tokyo on Saturday 2010.12.4. The scale of Akira’s paintings look spectacular in the 25th floor lobby with its soaring atrium – go & have a look!!
Akira – Menage a Trois runs through until 2011.1.10 – info at www.parkhotel-tokyo.com

With infamous whisky writer Dave Broom & artist Akira at the opening reception of Menage a Trois – a marriage of whisky, art & a design hotel.

Akira’s pieces looking spectacular in the hotel lobby.