Can you tell us what Pika Pika means and why you started it?
Pika Pika is our tool to spread this exercise and communication. We started this project to go over the language barrier and to make friends with artists, designers, and photographers all over the world. Photo by Sean Marc Lee Pika Pika in Los Angeles – participants included kozyndan, Souther Salazar, Saelee Oh, Lana Kim, John Pham, Frosty and more – July 2006 I love the community aspect that Pika Pika brings. Why do you like to draw participants from different disciplines (not just animators) and what types of interesting people have you met through this experience? If we have only animators, we only talk about what projects we are working on and gossip about animation industry. When we have people from different disciplines, it is fresher and more fun. We have a person studying medicine, an English teacher, someone who works for a cell phone company, and lots of people from the fashion industry these days. 2007 was a big year for Pika Pika. You toured to many events and festivals aro
