Saturday, June 09, 2007
Dewi's Dress :x
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-- Awesome dress from/ owned by Dewi Woo @ http://ningyohime-.blogspot.com/
I decided to name the doujinshi "*ONiGiRi~". I made one of the main character's clothing made after Dewi's dress, and here is the unfinished product, haha. :'> Except, this is probably mainly a picture for Dewi and because I said i'd use the dress. But the character will not look like this. Her attire will remain the same, maybe with a few different designs, but her hair and face will not be the same. I'll be doing the character sketches maybe later today or tomorrow. But mostly likely of the second main character.
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I was trying to figure out if I should color the dress using my black gel ink pin, but then you wouldn't really be able to see the ruffle creases. It would have been alright if I just sketched it, but I went on and inked it, then colored. I'm actually disappointed in how this came out, because in my mind, it was totally different. You can't see the line very well, since it's in pencil, but there in the background, there's suppose to me trees, lots of them, and she's suppose to be balancing herself on the train track. But it was late and I was suppose to get up early. It took me almost 2 hours to sketch and ink it. Then another hour and a half to color and highlight her hair. Speaking of her hair, it's horrible. The shape isn't so bad, since she's suppose to be leaning, but with the colors, you're suppose to form shadow and tint. Just like with the ruffles on the dress or any shadow or tint. But with the hair, there, I lacked completely. The color didn't even show much because I rushed when coloring it. It's suppose to be brown with red-purple highlights. But since the brown was too light, I added black, which was a mistake. Made it look dirty and thick. So I tried to re-lighten it with yellow, but it made it look like a red-ish pink hair color, lol.
The skin sucks because I used peach at first, but she just looked like an ordinary white girl. I wanted her to have a peachy yellow-ish golden orange type pigment like Dewi since she's Asian. A lot like Ayumi's skin in my current header.. So my dumb ass lightly added yellow, not knowing yellow could be so loud. And what makes it worse, the scanner added even more contrast, so now she looks like someone from the Simpsons, ugh. x/
The shoes were modeled after Jessica Simpson's (I have a pair of her shoes) but with a red sole and a heel. The originals are ballerina flats.
The leg warmers are also modeled after me, but the ones I have where the Onigiri is, was originally a star. I'm starting to think I should of just kept it a star. =/
The bracelet modeled after those big ball bracelets, I love them :D
Anyway, I gotta do the background. Her make up sucks.. she was suppose to be anime like, but I guess it's cool she's like more human, :P
All for now
See yah~
Labels: art, fashion, poine's pictures
Sueing people? Sue me, lah. Piss me off. >=o
Here you have letter sent to me as a form of chain mail all across Imeem.com. Imeem is a music, video and picture network. They have groups and socializing. Kinda like myspace, but Imeem revolves around the music, videos and and kind of the pictures, while Myspace revolves around the pictures and socializing and being known all that crap. lol. Anyway, here are some things said. The replies of each person are separated by two dashes and start off bold.
-- Imeem Sucks... Got Sued and now we have lots of 30 sec previews... You might want to double check your playlist and much to your surprise will notice alot of songs been changed to 30 seconds.. What is the fun in creating playlist to share them with friends if you cant listen to the full songs... I and another friend are looking for an alternative website that offers the same as imeem had...
Mel
-- As reported by Reuters on Tuesday evening, Warner Music Group Corp. has sued Imeem for copyright infringement pertaining to the use of its music (which includes Green Day, Madonna, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers). Imeem is a social media site that allows its members to share photos, videos, and music; connect with other members who have similar preferences; and embed Imeem widgets in blogs and other social networking sites.
The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claims that "Imeem is no innocent infringer. It invites Imeem's millions of users to flock to its website to copy, adapt, distribute and perform unlicensed sound recordings and music videos." A statement from Imeem was not yet available.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based Imeem, which boasts 16 million users, has already seen its embeddable widgets banned from social networking site MySpace as a result of copyright holders' concerns.
-- This is complete and utter Bull Crap!!! This is the best website for getting to listen to current and popular music from all genres. You can't download any tracks so I don't know why the record industry is having a tif, fagots. If anything placing the artists music on your myspace account is free promotion for them of music you like.
Myspace is just bleeding all over the place because the quality of their music sucks, and the variety is not chosen by the users but by Tom and who ever is willing to blow him. Imeem has the users upload the music they deem is worthy of being heard, and we all agree on what we hear. if we can do anything to keep Imeem up I am open to suggestions and will support it.
Myspace and the record industry need to step their game up and stick a tampon in it!!
-- For that matter they need to sue limewire, because that gives us all access to anything, video, or pictures, or even music, but that sucks
--Thats Bull!! Like What about all that music We had to take time downloading,??
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Anyway, probably won't matter to most of you, but i'm sure pissed. I just left Bolt.com like I guess five months ago because the music was taken away. They got sued also. And like someone said in one of those complaints, Imeem let's you upload your own music. as did Bolt. And you have it on your own computer probably from purchase. And if not, it doesn't matter because bolt and imeem doesn't let you download anything. The only thing you can probably do is save pictures, but not music or videos. And sites like those, hearing songs and watching videos people upload gets you maybe interested in a certain artist and you'll end up purchasing it. I know I have. Some Olivia Lufkin songs and a lot of other artists. Anna Tsuchiya, Ayumi Hamasaki, Ilaria Graziano, I got their CD's because I liked their music. I got to hear Ayumi's recent album and that led me to purchase it. So they cut most of all the songs down to a 30 second previews, thinking that people can sample that and buy an album. Pfft. Yeah right. First of all, 30 seconds ain't no time.. and within a song, you'd have to choose what 30 preview you want to hear. A song my have only one amazing part, or they might use a bad part. I know in Wo men de ai by F.I.R I only like one amazing part. I like the song, but I look forward to that one great melodic part. That's so stupid how they did that. Ugh.. pisses me off.Labels: music
Friday, June 08, 2007
- 6.09.07 - ☺- 6 more days before visitors arrive -
A day before yesterday; June 7th, my director for Into The Fire called me while I was sleeping, lol. She left me a message about how she heard I quit and told me she was re-starting rehersals for the play in the summer. Oh great.. I was hoping she wouldn't call.. I certainly don't remember me giving her my cell, but whatever. She was saying how she wanted to get the parents involved and all that crap. I'm calling her back tomorrow to let her know, yeah, I quit. You were unsure and unorganized for 3 months and sucked completely for 2. So i'm convinced you'll definitely waste my time during MY summer vacation. So i'd no longer be joined anyone in rehearsal for Into The Fire. Also, i'm doing a cosplay photoshoot on July 7th, I have no time for rehearsal. Also, i'm going to Camp Broadway at the end of July.
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DUDES!! Speaking of visitors.. I met my... fourth cousin and third cousin today, lol. My third cousin, he's an adult and he's from Cincinnati, Ohio, his name is Ramone. He has two children, a girl and a boy. His boy is 18, his girl is 16, a year under me though, Ceara.. which should be spelt Ciara. =x She came today with her friend. I forgot her name, I think it was Maria. But then again I know it wasn't, because i'd remember. I have a friend named Maria, so yeah. Well, whatever her name, I actually liked her a lot more than Ceara... ack. Wish she was my cousin instead, she's much more interesting and we connected more. Ah... too bad. Can't trade cousins, lol. Ceara.. uh, she's so below me. I don't dislike her, but she's too wild and loud. I have tons of friends like that, but indeed they know how to act and we have things in common. Ceara and I don't. We're totally different. She's the type of girl that loves to have love affairs, dress like a diva and is in love with herself. She kept asking me to take a picture of her by herself when we were suppose to take pictures, she's so conceited. Too bad the batteries went out, huh? lol. Thank God, or else i'd be photographer for a day, shooting some glamorous model. Yeah right. She's not all that pretty. We were suppose to go out today, but it was late when they got here and it was rainy, so we said we'd go tomorrow. Planned on going to the Underground :) It's been forever since I went, so I didn't turn it down. I want to invite my friend though. I'd be seriously annoyed with just Ceara. I mean.. her friend will be there too, but she's kind of like her follower, and she doesn't exactly do anything without Ceara. I realized when Ceara went outside for her phone (that was in their car) her friend woundn't stop talking to me. lol. But as soon as she came back, I told her to finish what she was saying but she told me never mind and never mentioned it the rest of the night. =/ Oh well.. hopefully the weathers good, we'll go out and have a good enough time, because they leave back to Cincinnati Sunday afternoon.
Bye now. Will blog about my time tomorrow.. tomorrow, haha.
Oyasuminasai~
Labels: life
Thursday, June 07, 2007
*ONIGIRI♦ :3\\ 1 month to go before 7.07.07!!♥
My cousin and her boyfriend Shawn are coming down on the 15th. Why she's bringing her lover? Who knows what's inside her head. She says, "Oh! Any vacation will do! I just wanna go on a get-away and go out with Shawn and do great things! I can't wait to travel the town.. and we'll all go to that nice new restaurant by the ocean!! I know the weather's fabulous!" or some crap like that. What does she think she's going to Hawaii?! The ocean's in Savannah, not Atlanta! This is pure city. Not even real lakes around here. And she's leaving her mother and brother family.. to visit her aunt and cousin family. How is that a "get-away"?? Because she's with her boyfriend?? Lol... that amuses me so much. She's gonna have a completely screwed up time, because our guest room is under repair.. and we only have twin beds for use. I'm not gonna be nice to Shawn, i'm not gonna change my attitude. And I have to get all my things done for NANA day. She either better help out, or be gone before July.
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Paste from Oranje: (from c-box)
Q's & A's~ :D
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6 Jun 07, 12:43 Q: oranjeheartpoine: why are we not celebrating hachi's day then? 08082008 would be international hachi day, no??? |
A: poineheartoranje: At first I was amused by the thought of a "International Hachi Day". But that's actually correct, it would be Hachi Day. But, International NANA Day is for
[NANA]; story by Ai Yazawa, not the character. Lol! :P
6 Jun 07, 12:44
Q: oranjeheartpoine: mmmm i'm gonna be disappointed if they dun hav hachi day... cos nana, then hachi right? ^^ nana day is on a sat, so i should be able to make it... a lil too old to be dressing up as one of them...
A: poineheartoranje: Yea! No day for me to celebrate what i'm most like!
And actually, if they do, I can cosplay Hachi then, lol. Even if not, i'm doing it on my own.
A: poineheartoranje: Aww, a bit past your age. :P Maybe that's true, but would love to see BB doing so, xD
6 Jun 07, 12:45 Q: oranjeheartpoine: but will check it out n take some photos. hehe... show me yer pics there oki. wonder if anyone's cosplaying as sachiko. hahahaha! |
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A: poineheartoranje:Oooh! I have small information on the Singapore NANA Day mentioned after this. Take pictures with that fabulous Nikon D80! x]
A: poineheartoranje: I will be posting my pictures up on here, and there will be an album made for my Myspace ;] I'll also be recording stuff, so videos will be up also. *is excited*
A: poineheartoranje: Hmm? Yes, someone is cosplaying Sachiko. Why? Actually, we have cosplayers for like every single character in NANA. Well not all, but we have supporting characters Mari; Reira's Assistant, Shouji, Sachiko, Junko, Kyosuke, Nami; Hachi's ganguro sister, Nana's sister, Yuri; that's who i'm doing, Misato and Shion :) Those and the members of both BLAST & Trapnest. That's 18 people, plus the groupies adding on making it 22 people. :D Sadly, probably only 15 will come because a lot were unsure, but yeah.
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In Singapore, they don't have an exact meeting yet, but it's gonna be on Orchard Rd. And they don't have a time yet.. but there will obviously be strawberry cake o.o
site: http://community.livejournal.com/sgnanaday/
Ask for NANA Day Georgia, Tabatha has no perspective on what she needs to do. We have no destination, no time, no answers. Then some members keep talking about what day to celebrate. Clearly we don't even know that! July 7th people!! London suggested we have the photo shoot on NANA Day and celebrate at Grace's house (maybe someone else) the next; Sunday the 8th. Ummm... we don't even know IF this is gonna happen! And why not do it the same day? The photo shoot won't be all day! I mean, I'd want to help out more, but I have my own problems and it's NOT my job. It's Tabatha, Kei, and Robert's job. What the hell are there people doing??
Now i'm not sure if we're gonna recreate the BLAST cake.. because if we do celebrate on the 8th..we'd be eating it then. And no one is giving me information. They're finding a place last minute when that should have been first! I'm so jealous of the well thought out plans people had in other states or countries. From the site online, seems like Georgia is doing the worst. The Philippines, Spain, and California are the best. From what i've seen.. ;x
And London (not the country, lol).. she wants to try and change her outfit after all this. Let's have a little synopsis of her wrong doings.. generally, not just personally.
•Had an outfit with Grace
•Saw Tabatha's side-line outfit; suddenly wanted to do that
•Ditched Grace because she did want to do it
•Grace had to start all over again
•Had same character as me
•Had same outfit as me
•Did her outfit wrong; didn't know what the entire thing looked like, so she improvised (a big no no in serious cosplaying)
•Didn't care, continued outfit anyway
•Complained to almost ALL the members how stressed she was that she had to change her character because "some new girl took her original idea". (um.. took her original idea? She was suppose to be with Grace,
originally. And wasn't it Tabatha's idea? Hmmm..)
•Bad mouthed me a second time setting a bad impression; had people disliking me
•Had(has maybe) Tabatha not liking me
•Asked Tabatha for her shirt to the outfit because she was unable to find it(she asked her for her shirt to the outfit she stole?)
•Complained about how hard the outfit was. Even though she easily and proudly stood up for doing it when I already had everything I needed.
•Kept asking people where to get things and could she borrow things; should be doing it herself
•Kept having something to say about all my ideas. (Ex. I say, "I'm changing my character to Yuri since I dedcided to no longer do Hachi. Is that okay?" Kei told me how "kick ass" that would be, and that it's spectacular because they needed that character for Nobu since Yuri is Nobu's mate. I also offered him my Vivienne Westwood necklace since he needed one, and he said that'd be awesome. London says, "-coughNOBU'SMATEISHACHInotyuricough- HAHAHAHA. But yes, I'm glad you're doing Yuri tho'! The more characters the better. I'd love to see pics of that orb necklace. Kei, doesn't it need to be a lighter anyway? Not just an ordinary orb...") -_- bitch
•Kept saying how she wanted to do my ideas to get attention. (Ex. I say, "I'm recreating the Black Stones cake with some friends." London says, "Awww! I wanna bake something! What about the rest of us??? -whines-" Ex. 2 I say, "I wanted to bring two of my friends along with me to help with my things and just for familiar company, but since there aren't enough characters to be played, I thought about them coming as groupies of BLAST or Trapnest for the photo shoot. Is that alright?" She says, "Groupies?? There's already gonna be a lot of people. This is for cosplaying NANA. If they aren't doing characters, why should they be there?" 10+ people loved my idea and said it was perfect. Even the administrator said it was alright, and was happy I thought of it because now one of her friends could do the same. London then says, "Tabatha, you're bringing a friend as a groupie too? Perfect idea. ^^ Awww! I wish I could bring a groupie, but my cars full! :(") (all of a sudden she loves the idea and Tabatha thought of it?)
•Complained about changing the top to the outfit since she was having a hard time.
•Then thought about changing outfits completely
That heifer better not change after all this! Not when I already had my references, and I had to search ALL over again for an outfit and places. Change? When I could of just kept my idea and had extra time to do what I like? I could be researching places to have the photo shoot rather than being stressed all over again about finding what I need. And even Grace had to start all over. We wouldn't have to worry if she never whined! And now she's not sure? Spending time and money on this, when I could of just stuck with Hachi and have no issues, isn't worth not being "sure". She better stick with the outfit she so dearly wanted to do. Or else when I see her with a different outfit, i'm slapping the shit out of her. I don't care who the hell she is, she's no princess, she can't do whatever she likes. She got out of it with everyone else, but not me. I want her to change outfits! Just so I can beat the crap out of her and mess up her day like she would have messed up my month. I have no time for stubborn stupid little girls.
PHEW~ That felt good ;D
Here's the outfit I
might be doing for Yuri. Most likely not, it's just a plan D back up, lol, but I posted anyway. When I finally do find my outfit, if it changes, hopefully, i'll replace it.
Here's a picture of a re-created BLAST cake we're currently using for reference ;D
And here's the screen caps of the cake from the anime. The changes made to the pictures above and in general: There will be 3 layers instead of two, no layer will be bigger than the other, and maybe we'll write "Int' NANA Day 7.07.07" on the third layer. And.. will someone tell me what that maybe chocolate thing is?? The thing that has 'Black Stones' on it? Can't seem to figure it out. If not, i'm using a Starbucks brownie and covering it in chocolate, lol. Best bet to me ;3
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Onigirl rocks, no? lol..
So pretty it is.. totally random icon and title.. ^.^
So! One month from today is Nana Day! Sugoi!! How exciting -^___^-
Countdown shall begin. Bye now!~ ♥
Labels: events, life, nana
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
NANA!! Be strong!! ;______;
AHHH!! KAKKOII!!! *-* NANA had a respiratory attack! Miu is totally
awesome! ^___^ Thank you sooooo much Takoyaki's for subbing the manga, and thank you London for sending me the scans for download. I shall save up my money and buy at least two volumes this summer to support Ai Yazawa. I also gotta get up to date with Paradise Kiss.. x__x I'm on chapter 41 now.. those were from chapter 37 volume 11?? It's like 30 pages a chapter and i'm just reaching volume 12 T__T
Oh, I wish I could post all the volumes up on here, but I already deleted the old ones.. nothing but the latest ones I got. Plus that wouldn't be fair AND they got sex scenes, lol... I hate to say this, but romantic PG-13 nude, not XXX nude, xD... they still suck. Anime blocks it out.. yay for ability to 'enjoy a good story without squinting' ! .-.
*SQUEE!!~ I can't wait to finish this up.. it's so good.... *drool*
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So speaking of NANA, heard of International NANA Day?? Dewi, they're celebrating in Singapore.. you too BB! You know NANA like me! You be too busy to celebrate?? =/ Here's a website for it: http://www.defectivegeeks.com/nanaday/
Well, I don't know about celebrations where any of you are, but in Atlanta we're doing a cosplay photoshoot. :DD But only that.. :( In the Phillipines they have A LOT going on!! They've made a whole site dedicated to it! YES! Some hardcore dedicated fans!! They're having band members perform and everything.. so jealous ;/ If I was rich, i'd bring them here!! Only money for a cosplay photoshoot and for food and props and whatnot ^^
Oh! The date? 7.7.07! Because NANA is seven in Japanese.. and a lot other. So this month of June, i'll be getting my outfit and wig and hooker clothes, tee hee..
I'm gonna be a prostitute! YAY! :D
No... correction... i'm gonna be a AV star (porn star D=) xD
My charecter i'm cosplaying is a freakin' AV star. =/Her name's Yuri and she's Nobu's girlfriend! What's awkward is the person cosplaying Nobu is a chick.. and what's funny to all my messed up in the head friends, my character's name. Areku was like, "Ah, crazy. So you have to be the girlfriend of some chick? HAHA! Yuri
is her name, live up to your character if you wanna be a good cosplayer! *chuckle*" (i.e. yuri means girlxgirl love in Japanese, lol.. no -__-) Hate for you Areku is increasing my dear. Don't walk with me up a mountain. Will be seen falling from it. I'll say it was a mountain goat. :3
Anyway, exactly a month from today, Chyna and Areku will be staying with me to help remake the 'Black Stones' cake. Well.. we might be over Areku's house or Chyna's.. depends on which is closer to our destination. I hope Chyna though.. because I want to play in her collection of Anime, manga and games!! *__* It's like a kid in a candy store.
Anyway, we're gonna bake a cake, each in charge of different things. Because it's not just baking a cake, it's gotta be exactly like the one in the story. It's a three layer cake was blue berries and strawberries on top a certain way, and a chocolate something in the middle of the fruits with
Black Stones written on it with white icing. ^-^
Then.. Chya is a sewing goddess.. she's gonna alter our outfits. I'm doing the make-up and hair. And Areku is the prop keeper. She keeps up with all our props and moving equipment. The amps, guitars, jewelry and stage things we were asked to bring along. And i'm the only one cosplaying a character. Since there aren't enough characters for Areku & Chyna to do, i've asked if they could come along as groupies. Chyna will be the groupie for Trapnest. And Areku for Blast. So Chyna's outfit's a lot like Misato's. Except she won't be girly lolita; she'll be gothic lolita. Areku, she'll be punk like Nana. Combat boots, ripped tights and all. *squee! I'm so excited! My two little kawaii dolls.. they're gonna be soooo cute! *nose bleeds* xD
Aww, and London who provided me with the manga scans, she's great and all.. but that trick stole my outfit and ticked me off too many times!! >:( She's playing Hachi.. I had my Hachi outfit.. the REAL outfit all together but she had her WRONG one first.. and me being such a nice girl... -___- I let her keep it. I'm just gonna do it for AWA 13 2007. If I can't get in, from the incident last year..., i'm hunting her down. :] Turned most of the cosplayers against me! God.. give me a break.. didn't even have it right. Get mad because I had it before you, really! Wasn't your idea to begin with, was Tabatha's! *scolds* Anyway, hopefully we won't argue on NANA day. Too much time and money for that. Just wanna be a fan and have fun *nods* Plus, i'll get my kawaii dollies to sick her, i'm sure no one will help her ^.^ <- ish evil in disguise ->
--lazy!! finish post later :D June 7th
Labels: events, life, nana
Let's post pretty pictures to woo you off me.. -_-;
Thanks to everyone that e-mailed, SMSed, IMed me and called me non stop during my little crisis.. ^^;; I really appreciate it!! Areku, you get Chyna, Sonja and Nyna and we'll go out soon okay? I got you big time on your birthday, ok my little ty-chan?? -^_______^- Love you lots.. even if you do freak me out
most of the time a little bit :D
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Pay not attention to that title. i'm fine now. Just kidding around ;x
I'm really sorry Oranje, for freaking you out most. Forgive me?? I'm fine now, really..
i'm sowwy D=
So anyway, enjoy these:
PIcturEssSSSsssSSsszzZzz...... O__o;
(don't forget to enlarge ;D)
Anna Tsuchiya in
Looks Magazine ;]
Lol.. Anna makes the funniest faces x3
She's indeed a character ;)
Ah, this reminds me of the outfit in her
Lucy video. Great style she has. Her outfit rocks and those BOOTS! Sugoi ni! Kakkoii!!*o* Would LOVE a pair ;]
Yep... she's a weird one. ;3
I love this picture.. i might use it for editing later on..
it's really classy ^^
Labels: anna tsuchiya, asian, life, Magazine Scans