Danny's "Stormtrooper" Categorized Photo Articles (83)

Taken this Thursday at the official Softbank iPhone 3GS launch event just past midnight. On the left of the photo is Masayoshi Son - CEO of Softbank. On the right is tech journalist and consultant Nobi Hayashi. The chap in the middle is some git who realized that he should not be s...(more)

Its been about 9 months since the Mac Life 3 article and I've been stocking up on Mac bits n pieces for today. The first photo is the latest office layout - taken after Tokyo CGM Night Episode 3 in Harajuku. Might as well start off with the latest piece...(more)

A short video that my wife n I threw together to show how I put on Stormtrooper armor. For those who cant see the vid, get along to youtube.com/watch?v=TA2zd7aBPlA to watch it. Just a quick note to say that any video you embed in member news is by default high quality. Lemme kno...(more)

From left to right:- Fuminori Kizaki (Director of Afro Samurai, Animation Director of Blue Gender, Character Designer of Galaxy Railways, Key Animation for Macross Pluss OAV) Danny Choo CEO Mirai Inc/Key pigeon cage cleaner Takashi Okazaki (Original creator art/man...(more)

New years greetings comrades! How is the beginning of 2009 treating you so far? Wanted to publish the events and highlights of 2008 yesterday but was eager to get pics of the Dollfies up. First pic recently taken in Odaiba with the Lumix LX3. ...(more)

My Tokyo Rock Trooper video has been nominated for the best video in the Video Blog category for the YouTube Video Awards Japan 2008. My comrade at Google asked me to make a vid asking folks to vote for me - which I done but that alone would have been boring. ...(more)

The next biggest media coverage achievement after appearing on CNN is a four page feature article on dannychoo.com and Mirai Inc in this months edition of Mac Fan - Japans major Mac magazine. Am rather pleased n happy ^^; And this is what the cover looks...(more)

Was invited by comrades at Google to YouTube Live Tokyo - the reason why I could not stay in Singapore for AFA. The most awesome thing about Live Tokyo was getting to meet n network with a load of other YouTubers too like the lovely Magibon. Sunday 1:45P...(more)

Included in the photo is Joi Ito (CEO of Creative Commons and board member of a zillion other web properties - check his LinkedIn), Andrew Huang (Vice President Hardware Engineering at Chumby), Ellen Levy (Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy LinkedIn), Jean-Marie Hull...(more)

Went with a bunch of Silicon Valley directors and CEO's out for a tour of Akihabara yesterday and took them along to a live house run by a few comrades at Dear Stage. Was my first time there and watching the cutie girlies and the Otagei masters was a lot...(more)

Well its been nearly four months since we filmed this video ^^; The main reason that it took so long was because every time I sat down to edit it, it was taking ages to get the hand movements in sync with the music - maybe my iPod version was out of sync or something. Higher res...(more)

So the filming that I mentioned in A Week in Tokyo 23 and the Japanese Girls article was for CNN - the feature went out today at 8AM JST and is being broadcasted throughout the day. I also just got mail from Kyung Lah telling me that its the most viewed video at cnn.com today ^o^ ...(more)

Been one of the busiest weeks so far and this is how I felt like yesterday night - absolutely knackered! If you have not seen it yet, check out the Japan Public Sleeping article. Thanks to Hector for taking this pic. After a packed weekend of Chara Hobb...(more)

Comrades from G4TV were in town from LA for a week and we thought it would be great to so some stuff together. The first thing I suggested was that we film at Goodsmile and you saw the photo coverage a few days ago. The next thing that we done was get t...(more)

Was out n about in Shibuya yesterday with a TV crew filming stuff which I will announce in a few weeks time - this is going to be incredibly big for dannychoo.com and all featured feed partners - if you have not joined the band wagon then do so now! And there just happened to be a ...(more)

Still got quite a few goodies to show you from the Good Smile offices but thought we'd take a short break today for those who are not here for the figures. High res version at YouTube. Results from a previous poll did suggest however that most of you ...(more)

I got bored of my armor and decided to paint it silver - how does it look? Only jesting. This silver trooper can be seen at the 501st booth at the Star Wars Celebration Japan event being held at Makuhari Messe for the next 2 days. Today was the first day. Unfortunately due to prior appointments made...(more)

Was going to call this new series "Hand Full O updates" but decided that "Hmmm Nice Eyes" sounded more interesting. First up is me on CNN again - was interviewed on the day of the iPhone launch but didn't know they used the footage. They cut me off just before I could say something decent ^^; An...(more)

The Empire rolls you. An explanation below for folks who don't know what "Rickrolling" is - from Wikipedia Rickrolling is a prank and Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they cl...(more)

Video taken on the day of the iPhone launch in Tokyo. Footage of just the queues alone would have been boring so I thought I'd spice the video up a bit by attempting to "dance." Thanks to Hector for filming and to Akihabara News for the loan of their video camera. Music is "Young Folks" by the most ...(more)

The iPhone 3G went on sale today at the Softbank flagship store in Omotesando/Harajuku. Many of my comrades have been out there waiting since 4PM and I just had to go along to egg them on. Saw the queues from the train extending from the store towards S...(more)

With your feedback, I grabbed the nearest electric guitar I could find, threw on the armor and headed for Shibuya together with Hector and my wife. First up is the terrorizing of the passengers on the trains. Checking the vid on the Xacti video camera. ...(more)

A survey carried out by Dai Ichi Life revealed that 39% of Japanese primary school girls take lessons outside school hours to learn how to play a musical instrument. For primary school boys the most popular lesson was swimming. The list of other lessons that were most popular with ...(more)

OK, I know the Caramelldansen thing has been around for a while but for some reason it has only recently started to infect the Japanese. I think most of the Caramelldansen variations have been uploaded to NicoNico but if you have a look at YouTube you can see that many have been uploaded only recently. ...(more)

Have heard of chocolates being given to idols but never expected to receive chocolates *from* an idol ^^; This is Ayumi Hotta from the Primaries giving me some valentines chocolates last Monday - to the folks who asked what was in the orange bag in the 4 hours in Akihabara article ...(more)

At the begging of yesterdays 4 hours in Akihabara, I bumped into two of my idol comrades Ayumi Hotta [堀田あゆみ] (girl in blue) and Shiki Mochizuki [望月紫葵] - together they are known as the "Primaries" [プライマリーズ]. We decided to go do a bit of dancing in Akib...(more)

The video shot in Shibuya at the end of last year - photo coverage in this article. If you would like to share this video, click on the "menu" button on the player to grab the embed code. If you are sending this to a friend/foe or submitting to a social bookmarking site, use the link below and direct...(more)

Photos from the YouTube Neta Battle event that took place at the end of last year. Met up with a few ex colleagues at Microsoft who now work for Google. When I worked for Microsoft I was surprised that there was a whole group dedicated to "beating Googl...(more)