To whoever is out there still reading this, a belated Happy Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, & Emperor's Birthday; Merry Christmas, Happy Festivus, and Happy Any Other Holidays. To any new readers, here's the Table of Contents for the previous parts. ☆ May 31, 2003 Nippon Budōkan (Third Day) We did an interview for uv magazine immediately …
Quatrefoil Patterns from Scratch
I became interested in Arabic geometry and zilij around the same time that the "Moroccan trellis" type of quatrefoil pattern started showing up everywhere. I've got a camera case, computer screen wipes box, and even a kitty litter mat with variations of this pattern on them. I'm both delighted by the availability of this design, …
The Air Moon Ch. 6: Jōgen no Tsuki, Part 4
May 25, 2003 Marine Messe Fukuoka Today's venue, what with its wide field and capacity of almost 9,000, made you feel as if you were in Yokohama Arena. The ceiling was high, and the uppermost portions, on which the spotlights were set, had rope ladders hanging from them. These were so long they created the …
The Air Moon Ch. 6: Jōgen no Tsuki, Part 3
The discussion about regret in this part reminded me of a meme a friend shared on social media recently. To paraphrase, it asked if you would rather go back to being 10 years old but with all the knowledge you currently possess, or wake up at age 45 but with a billion dollars in the …
The Air Moon Ch. 6: Jōgen no Tsuki, Part 2
Let's just get right to it, shall we? ☆ May 9-10, 2003, Nippon Budōkan (First & Second Days) This was Gackt's first time putting on a concert at the Nippon Budōkan since going solo. It would also be the first time there's a show at a large Tokyo venue just one week after the start …
exist†trace — Unforgive You
The song that most caught my attention on Twin Gate when I first listened to it was "Unforgive You." It's such a haunting track, and the specificity of the person described made me wonder who it was written for. Actually, I think that's how I came to find miko's blog, as she explains there exactly …
The Air Moon, Ch. 6: Jōgen no Tsuki, Part 1
*Half a year late* Happy New Year, O Readers! ^o^; Time flies when you're finishing a Masters degree, and then would like to spend a couple weeks doing absolutely nothing, but you have to secure a job first, and deal with other Life things... Anyway, if you need a refresher on the story so far, …
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The Air Moon Ch. 6: Jōgen no Tsuki, Part 0
It was a bit hard to keep my concentration up to get through this translation, but I'm trying to do like that one lady told Picard and "Never give up [my] music." (A gingerbread cookie to whoever gets the reference and can cite season & episode number. Ahaha...) It didn't help that I recently got …
Ille Iterium Veniet
With this year being the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII, I used one of my projects in printmaking last spring to pay homage to Mr. Lash Blast by Covergirl Jenova. The assignment was drypoint etching. We had to work the plate gradually, pulling prints as we went. I didn't really make good use of …
Educational Stick Figure Comics
It was like 2AM and I had been checking short Japanese compositions on Blackboard, explaining in words that もってくる and もっていく are not interchangeable, and that I think it's weird that many people seemingly use "take" and "bring" interchangeably in English. What a jumble of words, I thought, and deciding that pictures would make things …
Warped Frost 