Working for a relatively small company has its down sides. I remember in Squaresoft, we’d go to the E3, get cool unique stuff that Final Fantasy fans would envy !
However, one still deals with bigger business which, in turn, can lead to some fun 8)
Without any previous notice, yesterday I was invited to the XBox 360 Christmas party at the XBox 360 Lounge. Some sort of X-Headquarter in the Aoyama area in Tokyo. The party was private, free drinks, free fancy cold-buffet foods (looked too complex for me to try to eat), Santa-dressed waitresses and a short speech.
At one point some dancers appeared from behind a glass on a higher floor of the lounge and suddenly we were in the middle of a performance. I probably spent most of the time trying to understand how to work the new camera-phone. It was a daunting task.. to try get a decent shot of dancing girls in a dark environment under shining spotlights, people’s heads everywhere. Still, I could take a couple of decent shots (lots of noise on the images.. some day I will try devise a filter for that !).
Unfortunately the pictures don’t show one funny highlight. At one point dominatrix dancers took two guys from the public, put them on-stage. One was “forced” on his knees, the other I don’t remember. People were sort of amassing towards the stage at that point and it was hard to keep track of things ehehehe
Microsoft entertainment department in Japan has always gotten at least one thing right: the girls ! Unlike the US, Japan (like many other non-puritan countries) is a lot more open to the idea of associating entertainment and women. One may say that women become objects at that point. Perhaps, but those girls performing must also be considered as professional dancers that like to take care of their bodies and put them on a display. How the public decides to watch them, it’s a different matter.
Anyhow.. enjoy the pics ;)
Posted by Davide Pasca in Diary