Hello there, O Readers of The Air Moon. First of all I want to thank everyone who has been reading my translation and going on this trip back in time with me. Besides the joy of sharing the hard work and antics of this Moon we gaze upon, it brightens my day to log on to …
Author: scalesoflibra
A carbon-based life-form specializing in art & Japanese, who bears a really long name. Rock on & よろしく!
Hilcrhyme – Ouinkenbunroku
While I was in Japan, I was introduced to Hilcrhyme by a friend who said she'd seen a video with this singer who looked like Axel from Kingdom Hearts. The video in question was "Daijoubu." Much to my amusement, the similarity was certainly there, at least in terms of his build and hairstyle. Hilchryme consists …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 4
It's Memorial Day weekend! While I physically did not go anywhere (unless you count repeatedly walking up and down the Detroit International Riverfront), I did take a break from all my usual duties. But enough about me. This post covers two stops, one in Sendai and one in Gunma. First-time visitors are encouraged to start …
First Successful Moonshots
I really love the nighttime scenery. There have been so many beautiful nightscapes I wanted to capture, but I always thought I needed one of those fancy DSLRs and a lot more photography knowledge to do it. I'd tried Googling things such as "how to take photos at night," which led me to information which …
exist†trace — ANTIQUE DOLL
Just taking a little break from my usual translation work to bring you what is perhaps my favorite track from exist†trace's album World Maker. One long term project of mine is to translate every exist†trace song I have, which is to say over 40 songs. Unfortunately, I only have a hard copy of one of …
Work In Progress: Starfire Vigil
This Winter term I'm taking a class about indigenous, non-Western art and how to incorporate it into the K-12 art curriculum. Before the university's spring break, we talked about Islamic geometry and were given the task of creating a design with at least four levels of geometric patterns, then repeating the resulting design in a …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 3
Slowly we inch closer to the halfway mark of The Air Moon. Very slowly, as I will most likely not have time for this again until May. For the earlier parts, please see the Table of Contents. I'm not sure if I've brought this up before, but the part of concerts where the artist stops …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 2
Well, I said I'd post the next chunk in late December and here we are on the last day of the month. The New Year has already reached some parts of the globe, but as the eastern United States is still six hours away from joining the party, I've kept my word. ^o^ Speaking of …
exist†trace – Yume ni Kisu wo
I have several notebooks labelled 歌詞ノート, (kashi nooto) "Lyric Notebook," in which I hand-write the lyrics to Japanese songs I like. Perhaps this isn't a popular opinion these days, but I'm a huge proponent of writing in order to learn how to read. It doesn't matter whether you write with a pencil on paper or …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 1
The first part of this Chapter was actually labelled "Part 0." Please check the Table of Contents for earlier parts. ☆ October 12, 2002 Toda City Culture Hall (Dress Rehearsal) In preparation for the show on the 14th, the staff had already gotten all the equipment set up inside the hall yesterday. Now, they awaited …
Warped Frost 