Category: Art

  • Hanna: Interview with Seth Lochhead

    Can we agree that Hanna looks like she could be on our list of Top5 Little Girls on Film?

    You can head over here to read the interview.

    By the way, first time doing an interview via email. Interesting experience.

  • Wow, 10 years of All About Lily Chou Chou Already?

    Oh hoh… teasing photo for those who wanted Shunji Iwai + Yu Aoi back together. xD

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  • 30th Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Song

    Let’s start off by saying that my Chinese/Hong Kong film viewing… isn’t, just isn’t. LOL Of all the nominees, I have only seen two. Hahaha, I’m a little ashamed of that considering I’ve seen over 120 movies last year. Though, there were 3 other films I wanted to watch before the nominations were announced: Love in a Puff, Gallants, Under The Hawthorn Tree, and Detective Dee ;D

    And I’ve decided I should watch Reign of Assassins with my dad, and Hot Summer Days with my mom. LOL

    Also, Tetsuya Nakashima’s Kokuhaku was crowned as Best Asian Film, beating the likes of Aftershocks and Monga.

    Anyway, we’re here because of the Best Song category, which had the most artists I was familiar with, and we’re going to be looking at each of them and their respective songs~ First, the winner:

    Jun Kung’s Here to Stay from Merry-Go Round

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  • Yu Aoi’s To South Poster + Pics

    As you probably know… or didn’t – Yu’s latest play with Satoshi Tsumabuki, Minami he, opened in Tokyo… had some dates postponed (at least) due to the Earthquake, and I think it’s safe to say that it’s done with its running.

    There were interesting thoughts on it – hint: only read one review, which you can check by going through the Minami tag – and I ran into this poster for it, which is the closest some of us got to this play xD

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  • Yu Aoi for Journal Standard

    Hmm, I had planned a batch of Yu Aoi related posts that meant something, but I couldn’t find the photographer’s name for this photoshoot. And I even tried different ways… like her name + journal standard + photographer in English and Japanese, and ended up in Chinese websites xD

    Did I tell you that my last Chinese lesson was professions? LOL

    Anyway, this special project was a collaboration between Journal Standard and Yu Aoi for last December.

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  • Marion Bolognesi’s Watercolors

    If this…

    reminds you of the teaser poster for the film For Colored Girls~ it’s because your brain is right. Marion Bolognesi did the watercolor work for that poster, and now you should be gushing about her work.

    You can visit her portfolio~

  • More Yu Aoi Mentions in the Twitterverse

    Since the first time we talked about what people said about Yu-chan on twitter brought out toshii9245 out of lurking, I thought I would keep on posting other fun tweets about Yu ;D

    Let’s start off with this fan-made trailer of Center of the Universe, starring Shugo Oshinari and Yu Aoi~

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaW5pP7KB0

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  • BiBi @ Global Chinese Golden Chart

    The first edition of the Global Chinese Golden Chart was held recently in Taipei, Taiwan.

    Besides Leehom performing All the Things You Never Knew, Bibi was also there performing a medley of her i.Fish.Light.Mirror singles, including a bit of Canned Fish (like… the intro LOL), Single Mirror, and finally closing with I Miss U Missing Me.

    I’m happy that BiBi performs her best when there’s important people. LOL Like… she sounds pitch perfect when musician, producers, and actors are in the room. She doesn’t even need fireworks, outrageous clothing or flashy stuff, just her singing.

  • Bang Bang Tang, why no activity?

    Dear, Bang Bang Tang members~

    I stalk your douban page from time to time, even if I don’t really read Chinese characters. I heard your music once featuring on CNN’s CNNGo programming, and I was hooked.

    Anyway… enough with the fan message. xD

    I am aware Bang Bang Tang — not the Taiwan boyband — just get together when they feel like playing, and actually study… or I guess already have jobs. I know the indie music scene is really tough… imagine such a huge market like China.

    I wish someone who sign them already. Anyone, even an international indie label. Sighs. You know, instead of debuting a new girl group a week, they should fund BBT’s album.

    Suffering fan,
    amy xD

    Here. I leave you with the video for  Bang Bang Tang (棒棒糖) – 我最爱缺陷男 (Wo Zui Ai Que Xian Nan) – My Favorite Male Defects, which was included in my Top-Rated Songs of 2010, even though it’s not a 2010 song. Only one exception to that rule. xD

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  • Docomo’s Forest Xylophone

    You know I love this type of things… like Pythagoras Switch and the OK GO’s MV.

    This Docomo CM for the Touch Wood (ew) model of their phones — which to be honest are kinda cute. If I were in Japan, I would probably own a phone, but since I’m not xD The commercial, however, is made of awesome~