Category: Art

  • More Bibi PBs!

    :O

    ZOMG!
    a la Juri! DVD + Photobook!

    Mainland pop star Zhou Bichang (a.k.a. BiBi) turns movie director! Since signing with her new record company, the 2005 Super Girl first runner-up has directed three shorts that were first released on the Internet. They are now collected on DVD, allowing fans to witness her developing visual creativity and narrative flair. The first one, “Hide and Seek”, was highly popular in the 3rd Global Awards of Chinese New Media competition. BiBi plays an angel in the second chapter “Angel’s Corner”, which expresses her concern for various social issues, while the final piece “One Half Each Person” is more self-reflecting.The DVD comes with a 210-page full-color photobook, in which the bespectacled singer appears entirely without makeup. The book also includes photos she has taken around the world, as well as excerpts from her diaries written between April to December of 2008.

    Ooh la! Short films~~~

    Bibi Chow - Make Up Remover, Good to Be Myself

    Too bad it’s not subbed. But still, would be interested to see it.
    And it’s okay-priced. Would you consider? LOL

  • This is what’s happening~

    Everything I know or get from product photography, I “got” as a kid watching Discovery Kids when they showed a clip of how the photoshoot for a sandwich – complete with pinned-lettuce, strategically placed ketchup, soaking-wet cheese, raw-yet-well-done-cold burger and silicon-sprayed buns – and of course~ the ice-cream cup which was filled with silicon squares, and a some other squishy-plastic-like product… so the ice-cream wouldn’t melt, you know?

    I also did some “product shooting” in my school days, but really… wasn’t my thing.

    But look at this! It’s almost so SO real, except the fries… but still.
    O.O CRAZY!

    Is product shooting going extinct?

  • Carly Pope Thinks Vancouver is Awesome~

    me too, me too.
    though it’s always a love/hate relation with any city I stay in.

    I’m headed to bed early tonight. “big” day… er… today.
    let’s see how it goes~
    in the meantime~~~

    Here’s Carly Pope!

    Carly Pope by Shea Pollard

    What are your fondest memories growing up in the city?
    My parents used to always take us down to Granville Island on the weekends.  Kids Only market was my hotspot, no doubt.  We’d also take drives along the Seawall, and I would be nothing short of fascinated with the Girl In a Wetsuit Sculpture sitting out in the sea.  I tried (every time) to convince everyone she was actually the Little Mermaid…my version, anyway.

    I actually thought it was a mermaid too. LOL Granville Island pawns.

    What’s the most awesome restaurant in Vancouver?
    How do you choose?!  Vancouver’s seriously got the most awesome restos.  I’m practically a pundit for anything and everything Japanese. Hapa Izakaya, Kingyo, Miko, Bistro Sakana, Tojo’s (kind of preferred the days of old there though…something more unruffled about their former setup, but I get it), Shijo, Yuji’s, Yoshi’s, Daikichi (for takeout).  Asian fare, though, across the board, makes me a happy girl.

    Bolding, mine. ZOMG~ She’s so awesome. xD
    I’ve been to Hapa Izakaya once, it was pretty nice. Loads of people. Pretty nice food.
    But double ZOMG! Daikichi!!!
    I did most my Jap takeout from there since I lived right across the street. xD
    I did hang out with the Asian crowd. We went out to eat almost every weekend…

    Read the whole interview at Vancouver Is Awesome.

  • Emmys: The Main Title Nominees

    Motionographer made a post on the nominees for
    Best Main Titles
    (yes, motion designers can win Emmys too)

    Of course, my favorite one (and crossing my fingers for its win) is
    The United States of Tara… because!
    I love pop-up books… the level of detail in it,
    the style… and I also loved the theme.
    it gives you the proper idea of what the show is,
    it evokes the show and the style.

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ivFAuqpeaz4?rel=0″]

    Forget the Film (or show), Watch the Titles also had
    a special on the titles for United States of Tara~
    as well as True Blood, and Taking Chance

  • Emmys: Women of Comedy Interviews

    HAHAHA.
    Funny stuffs with Christina Applegate, Mary-Louise Parker
    Amy Poehler, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sarah Silverman and Jane Krakowski

    minus Toni Collette.

    (more…)

  • Ooh La La – Burton’s Alice in Wonderland Teaser Trailer

    Teaser tease!
    This gave me the chills, and it’s only the teasing part before the trailer. LOL

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/LjMkNrX60mA?rel=0″]

    Looks abso-bloody-lutely fantastic~
    We know the story… but it’s all about the vision,
    and the Cheshire Cat looks freaky O.o

    *EDIT*
    damn, will get back to you when they re-post this.

    *EDIT*
    Disney’s finally letting the teaser do its magic again. =D

  • Aruitemo, Aruitemo Subbed Trailer!

    Thank you, IFC Films =D
    Kore-eda’s Still Walking is a beautiful BEAUTIFUL! Film.
    Slow-paced, beautifully acted…
    and quite heart-breaking~~~

    Plus, Hiroshi Abe is hot. LOL

  • Yu Aoi Short Takes~

    I know, I know… I’m being lazy.

    By the way, by the time of posting this, I’m probably away taking photos at a concert. This is a scheduled post because I wanted Maggie Cheung as the first post for a little longer… xD

    I usually post one thing per post, but there’s too much Yu to post –
    all via aoinohoho’s Yu-dedicated JP blog.
    dozou~~~

    First!

    Rumors that NHK’s future 2011 (I know, I know… so far ahead) Taiga drama (a la Yoshitsune, Atsuhime) would be centered around three sisters… The Three Asai Sisters (?). They throw in some names like Masami Nagasawa and Aya Ueto, but seem positively (?) more thrilled to throw in Yu’s name xD – though you know, it IS a Google Translate.

    Me on the other hand… I loved Atsuhime… a strong female who moved the pieces in this game of life. That may have had to do with the high ratings the show got alongside the writing, and production values. So the prospect of Yu on a Taiga drama thrills me. For one thing, I will be able to watch her once a week on my TV for a year. LOL – but then, that will mean a decrease on films… *eek!*

    Second!

    Apparently (this is old old news), FRaU Magazine had a list Yu’s 10 Best Films~
    Some interesting choices there!

    3 films in English made it to her list…

    • White Oleander (2002)
    • 2:37 (2006) [starring fellow Teresa Palmer of December Boys, Daniel Radcliffe fame]
    • Almost Famous (2000)

    A very international one… actually, a two-part film project titled Ten Minutes Older, divided into The Trumpet and The Cello. (2002)

    And the rest are Asian… though I’ve only heard of Sway (with fellow Joe Odagiri), which I wanna watch.

    and third!

    aoinohoho uploaded this 9min video of… Yu talking about a book? Book reading?

    [iframe src=”https://www.tudou.com/v/GIK0Jvglz5w/v.swf” width=”480″ height=”400″]

    Oh yeah, and did I mention my mom loves Yu? She told me that tonight… again. LOL

  • If You Don’t Love Maggie Cheung, You Will Now

    Woahhhh. She left my heart dokidoki~~~

    It’s a very VERY old interview Cheung did for the New York Times while promoting Clean at the Toronto International Film Festival (for which she won Best actress at Cannes).

    Maggie Cheung by Jean-Baptiste Mondino

    In case the whole thing disappears, I’m gonna paste the whole thing here~~~
    by the way, I do LURV the photo below the break, same photoshoot as the above…
    want a bigger version of the one below!!!

    Really, really do read this whole interview, even though it’s quite long. But it will make you adore Maggie Cheung~~~ it will make you love her, even though she doesn’t really want you to. LOL

    (more…)

  • Woohoo! Babe Ruthless~~~ Whip It! Trailer

    I never picture me watching any roller derby, but this rocks!
    I need some chick comedy to counterattack all the male comedies…
    besides…
    Ellen Page, blue-dye, rimmed-glasses and rollers PAWN.
    Plus Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis (she sometimes scares me),
    Marcia Gay Harden, and Kristen Wiig… oh, and Eve?

    Babe Ruthless!!! xD

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/RQGPdXnb2Gg?rel=0″]