Tonight it was my virgin playing of TIME DVD, even though I've seen most of it already-- I was still really high watching it! Dancing and singing to it in plain view yo. ^_^; I know I said I wasn't going to play it, cause had family coming over-- but in the end, all 13 people in the house know who Arashi is now. xD
Uncle 1: There's a lot of pretty boys.. who is this Rain?
Uncle 2: Its Japanese, its Japanese.
Mum: On sparkly sequin costumes-- wah how pretty! They must cost a lot, the hand sewn sequins..
Dad: Of course its expensive, never mind the costumes, look at the kind of arena they have!
Mum: Ah ah ah there's a lot of people! There's a following, they all know the movements.
Mum: The stages are moving! There are springs! They must go up and down..!
<During Nino's Niji solo>
Uncle 1: It really is raining! The sweat is incredible.
I warmed my little cousins up by starting them on Yamada Taro-- could hear roars of laughter from the kitchen. My older cousins peeked over too, one of them knew the story and started explaining to her brother.
Little cousin 1: Ah its that poor boy from before! (Nino)
And then she proceeded to ask me who's that, and that, and that? I think she totally has a crush on Jun, because she kept asking me why I didn't tell her the name of that tall one? But both of them liked the gold sparkly suit (Nino) the best.
Litte cousin 1: Why are they sweating so much? Don't they get a break?
Little cousin 1: Who are they? Are they famous?
Yes they're famous, well at least in Japan. Of course you should know them!
<FIGHT SONG>
Little cousin 1: Ahhh (laughs) it looks like fun, I want to do it! Why is he (Sho) scared??
Thank you Uncle 3 for buying me TIME dvd. <3 <3
It totally amuses me to to see more than one person playing DS. I had another cousin with another one, so in reality there were four.
Okay my smallest cousin totally mutilated my paints. I was screaming already when she over enthusiastically squeezed out gigantic amounts from my precious tiny watercolour tubes and proceeded to use them dry, that is without any water and just like regular paint! But you're thinking, its alright, I can reuse those colours still, right?
Then I come back to this. -__- Well Anna, I wanted to show you picture of my paint palette..
There aren't any Arashi films yet, but there is Oguri Shun!
 | Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina
Director - Shinji Aramaki ; Country - Japan Fans as well as newcomers to CGI-animated manga will be amazed by the splendid digital animation with exquisite realisations of clothing, hair and cityscapes. Read full details > | ||||||||||||
 | Crows: Episode 0
Director - Takashi Miike; Country - Japan From cult director Takashi Miike comes this number one hit on the Japanese movie charts. Genji is determined to rule the roost at the baddest school in town, Suzuran Boys' High, but he'll have to fight everyone to do so. Read full details > | ||||||||||||
 | A Gentle Breeze In The Village
Director - Nobuhiro Yamashita; Country - Japan Soyo is the eldest child in a rural school with just six students. When older, stylish city-boy Hiromi, joins the school, it's not only Soyo's emotions that are unsettled. Read full details > | ||||||||||||
 | A Page of Madness
Director - Teinosuke Kinugasa; Country - Japan A rare screening of Kinsundasa's extraordinary 1926 silent masterpiece, with a live musical score at the glorious State Theatre. Read full details > | ||||||||||||
 | Sukiyaki Western Django
Director - Takashi Milke; Country - Japan A lone gunslinger rides into the middle of a bloody feud between the Heike Reds and the Genji Whites, befriends a kid who is half-Heike, half-Genji and decides to take on the rival clans. Read full details > | ||||||||||||
 | Tokyo Sonata
Director - Kiyoshi Kurosawa ; Country - Japan A story about an ordinary Japanese family told with the psychic leaps of a Haruki Murakami novel, the compositional playfulness of Jacques Tati and more than a hint of stylistic tribute to 60s Japanese cinema. Read full details > | ||||||||||||
 | You, the Living
Director - Roy Andersson; Country - France, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Denmark The notoriously strange Nordic sense of humour comes to the fore in this weird and wonderful film by Swedish auteur Roy Andersson. Read full details > | ||||||||||||
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When he gave them to me, I just slotted them neatly without opening them on the shelf next to Dome dvd- its not really the time to watch it now.. but. This Kiiroi Namida, even though I wanted the limited edition, but this is the JAPANESE version isn't it?? Lol. Um maybe I'll give it to my friend who is going to Japan again in June. The time to convert her is now isn't it?
Question, how do I pull out the pin ups from Wink Up? There is no perforated lines-- its completely bound into the magazine! And there are no staples either.
Tonight I went life drawing at the Arthouse hotel- oh so convieniently located underneath Kinokuniya.. I didn't know if my friends could be bothered coming, but four of us showed up- although I only invited one! Its mecha popular. It used to be free, but now its a small fee of $3, but I'm guessing there was about 100 people all up in between the two rooms? I am rusty though. Wuh it was cramped. Its a classy place. I mean there were no sinks in the bathroom, there was a hand shower, that lit up when you stuck your hands underneath it. I kept turning and seeing mirrors, couldn't escape! But its late.. I'm sleepy, but still have to stay up to do work.
Before the session started, I looked around Kinokuniya's jap mag sale, and zomg they have TV Station? *buys* I saw April issue of Oricon Style >_>, and May issue of Wink Up. I'm getting June Wink Up!
That's all, ohmiyasumi!
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I think I'll do several versions, different colours, want to make a glittery gif too- and go on to Himitsu logo later, but for tonight, I'm burnt out. ^^; Traced a blurry screenshot in Illustrator, then deliberated intensively on a correct colour palette. Ah I didn't even realise the logo had those little stars before. Will probably stencil this everywhere too. Does anyone have a clean screencap of Most Dame Arashi?- even since I saw that scooby dooby font, I want to cut it out and stick it everywhere lols.
But I missed the last episode T_T cause Keyhole is cry. Our limit is capped too!
Edit: Ah looking at it, I wonder why I didn't use a stroke outline for the stars?? More variations done!
CAUTION *kira kira*
*poked* by sable-chan
A secret that you haven't told the fandom yet:
I love Arashi, but I don't want fandom to take over my life, although I can see it sort of does.. Arashi helps me level up in LIFE!
A secret you can't tell anyone in real life:
I find myself.. well let myself get into a lot of situations I don't particularly want to be in. A lot like going with the flow~ so O-chan like, rather than taking any action. I am zen orz..
A secret related to what you do for a living/study:
I settled on my particular course because of a cute boy. XD Well then he moved to Melbourne and that was the end of it. Orz, but today I heard that he moved back here to find a job. Its all quite incestous anyway because he's a family friend. It wasn't the whole reason, but it did push me.
I don't know if they're particulary big secrets, but they're secrets to me all the same.
*pokes* Koon
Your dirty fingers sweating all over my wii~mote!!
says brother-chan. Because I am no longer busy, I can finally play Mario Kart with him and xx players on the Japan hub. Nino-chan do you like Mario Kart?
Soo I have 2 weeks break starting from today, yay! I went to Kinos today, and whoah Arashi Arashi Arashi on 3 TV magazine covers, or maybe I counted wrong? And there's a huge pile of Non-no too! Orz I spent 3 hours in there, well not just staring at Arashi overflowing the shelf, but looking at design books and eavesdropping on crazy-anime-figurine-fan-man creating a scene complaining at counter, tittish high schoolers in j-mag section looking for English translations >_>.. and businessmen conducting their office phone calls in the photo section. Wuh. I had fun.
After being inspired from stalking bookstores, I have dirty fingers because I played with charcoal ne. I can finally draw Arashi without being guilty I should be illustrating something or other for uni!
- Conor Oberst. An emo guitarist I thought was once cute.
- Fitzwilliam Darcy, ala Colin Firth as the dashing Regency gentleman in Austen's Pride & Prejudice.
- Ron Weasley. Ahah because I had a crush on a tall red head once.
- Card Captor Sakura~ because she has cute hair. XD That's unrelated.
- Sailor Moon. Because she has the crown meatball of heads.
- Random girl hair. Probably foreseeable in the near future seeing where we're at now.
Thanks for maiaide for translating the Cook Book so promptly, but being the indescript designer I am, I thought I might spend my Easter weekend typesetting the recipes so they completely match the original Japanese publication. I've always maintained I hate typography. I didn't know what typography was before I started my design course, really. I mean, why would there be a job that involves setting the s p a c e in and around between type? Well there is. :p Its painfully pedantic making sure all your text looks perfectly neat, but typography can also be crazy, fun and sexy. Yes my tutor told me type was sexy.
Save the pngs or download the pdf. Print 1 + 2, 3 + 4 back to back. If you don't have double-sided printing, just feed the page back into the printer. Staple or practise those tradition book-binding techniques, and presto-
Not that I would ever open the cookbook while I was cooking if it didn't have 5cm of bullet proof glass over it, but this makes it easier to read. I exercised some artistic license in changing all the cc to ml, bullion to stock cube, and minor text formatting.
Ahah what a boring title. XD
The Arashi Calendar was the best photobook I ever bought. ^^ I saw all the gorgeous photos, and felt jealous, but it was't too late because I only put my order in SIX days ago. I am very impressed with the speedy service. The calendar photoshoot is so dramatic! I love how they pencil in Arashi's birthdays for us. And the cookbook is all very cute. Arashi posing with random food items, Arashi gobbling down food.. what more else does a fangirl want? I can't wait to cook the recipes.. with the help of some translations of course. ^^; The design really is very professional, but I have to poke at the calendar's binding a bit-- I didn't want to open it fully. But HAPPY!
Tomorrow night is one of my best friend's inaugural photo exhibtion! Just like O-chan yo. I will be going to support her. :)
