Category: Photographs

  • More Yu

    Yu Aoi - July09 More InterviewOver at the Yu Aoi LJ Comm, there are brand new scans with an interview title “All About Yu Aoi” [insert Lily Chou Chou reference in here]. Scans are okay-ish size for photos… but knida makes it difficult to read or “try to read” as I call it. Plus, they have watermarks that make it even more difficult for me to try to get kanji xD

    Sucks to be me.

    Anyway, I did manage to get some of the titles and sub headings to get myself an idea of what’s going on here.

    It goes something like this…

    Likes, dislikes and the Actual Me

    All About Yu Aoi

    It has to do something with her success as an actress, and… her happy face (???) but yet precocious nature? xD – What’s the deal?  “Now, we all know “All About Yu Aoi””

    Pun intended. LOL

    Then, I think… they talk a bit about her views on this beautiful world (?), how awesome it is to work with Kyoko Koizumi (referring to the Gakuya play), how awesome (or how it makes her happy?) to have Scone in the mornings. As well as… opinions on Love? (Koi, Ai… Suki and Aisuru) – Ecological issues? ~~~ ?

    Something to do with movies and journies and searching? And wait, wait… funny part.

    とにかく食べることが大好き　（笑）。
    Tonikaku taberu koto ga daisuki (wara?).
    I generally love to eat (laughs).

    LOL. I can get that.

    ANYWAY. Any proper translation would be welcomed! ^^

  • More Juri and Nodame!!

    December 19!!!

    Of course I will have to wait a little for it… with luck, it won’t be too long.

    Nodame Movie 2009

    GYABO!!! xD

    btw, sounds like a very fun European tour…

    Last month on the 16th, they already started filming in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. They continued in Brno, the Czech Republic and after that they arrived in Vienna, Austria. After Vienna, they went back to Brno also filmed a few scenes Prague. Right now they are in France and about to start filming in Paris.

    More photos and videos via the Juri LJ Comm xD

    Chiaki-sempai!!!! Gyabo~~~ xD
    Oh, man~ I love Nodame-chan xD – Onara Taisou!!

  • The New Green Deal with Juri-chan – Twitterview with Ivan Simeon

    I thought I was being a smartass by calling this a Twitterview, but FRAK! I’m late… this is what happens when you think Twitter is not for you. ANYWAY!

    The Juri Ueno LiveJournal community just posted a brief Twitterview – more like a casual chat – with Ivan Simeon who is the photographer for the newest Juri-chan photographic adventure titled
    The New Green Deal.

    The New Green Deal by Ivan Simeon

    As far as I’m concerned, this community ROCKS major Yen. xD – They scan, translate… sub and even conduct Juri-related interviews!!!

    And hooray for Happy Accidents!!!

    My assistant messed up and the b&w pictures became green! She throwed it away and I fished it out of the bin and thought: Wouawww! That looks great. Than we worked hard to find again the combination which by accident gave this strange colour!

  • Pretty School Day @ Kyoto Saga U.

    I’ve taken photos when I was studying… ~~~ Now, if only my school days had looked like THAT.

    Kyoto Saga Art University

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  • Ooh la~ Actress Spotting: Carey Mulligan

    Carey Mulligan

    That is a photo of Carey Mulligan looking a bit different, but a pretty cool photograph. Who’s Carey Mulligan, you say? Well, I first spotted her as Elsie on My Boy Jack (starring Daniel Radcliffe), but truth be told~ I couldn’t pay much attention to it until her scenes came up.

    Where else have you seen her? She was also Kitty on Pride & Prejudice (the one with Keira), and Doctor Who as Sally Sparrow. And she seems to be having a pretty busy 2009~~~ with The Greatest (with Susan Sarandon), Public Enemies (with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard~~~ Ooh la!), Brothers (with Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman~~~ another Ooh la!), and An Education (by writer Nick Hornby) – in fact, I was checking out The Awards Circuit, and turns out they have her listed for this film as a Best Actress Nomination until now!

    Now that’s pretty impressive.

    Next-next up for her? Never Let Me Go (by Kazuo Ishiguro… with Keira, and Sally Hawkins) and The Electric Slide (with Ewan McGregor).

    Ooh la~~~

  • I’m Bouncing off the Walls Again~~

    Woh~~~oh~~~!!

    Freaking bouncers… *note to self* always kick around to get a photographing wristband so bouncers don’t bug. I went to shoot Brett Anderson last night, and well – I actually had never heard of him before I heard he was coming over.

    It was pretty good… though I liked the guitarist better. LOL – He was a great subject tonight, and his shots are some of my favorite of the night… which is running long. I really need to go to sleep, but I wanted to post the set =D

    I’m sorry I couldn’t get a clear shot of the drummer… no lights pointing at him whatsoever!

    and~~~ I dunno why I like this shot so much. xD

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  • L Magazine: Yu Aoi and Stationery

    To make up for the lame previous post, I found this Yu Aoi cover for L Magazine for January 2009.

    Yu Aoi - L Magazine - Cover

    Crap, she does look young there. I hate her. *laughs*

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  • Ooh la~ Actor Spotting: Anton Yelchin

    Well, he is hardly a spotting… more of a re-spotting, since I first saw him on 2001’s Heart in Atlantis with Anthony Hopkins, and later I recognized him on Along Came a Spider (with Morgan Freeman and Monica Potter). He later showed up in my radar starring in 2007’s Charlie Bartlett.

    Well, look where he is now~~~

    Anton Yelchin

    Where you will see him now? Well, he was on the latest Star Trek (as Chekov) and is now competing against himself at the Box Office with the recent Terminator Salvation where he plays Kyle Reese. All grown up. Who would’ve thought?

    He does look a bit dorkish (in a funny… you can probably say he can rock the dorkability), but this photo I thought was pretty decent. And let us all forget that he was ever involved in that god-awful You and I movie (aka. Finding t.A.T.u) with Mischa Barton.

  • I “Kick like a Girl” Too!

    LOL’

    Kick like a Girl is a 30-min HBO documentary of a team of girls that play (NOT soccer) football that totally creamed the boys in a match… or something.

    Back in my school days… I played football. I think I rocked it~~~ as a hobby of course. Back then, girls didn’t rock like this. I wish I had a girls football team T.T

    When I was 10-ish, there was a school match… between girls, but I’m pretty sure I was the only one taking it ‘seriously’. I even had my friends over for a practice. You know, I used to play with my cousins… one of those things you do when all your cousins are guys you see~~~

    Best in the trailer? The boy admitting getting creamed (in the field) by a girl. And the girl saying “I’m not going to be one of the girly girls, who put on lipgloss everyday, dresses in tutus and goes to ballet.”

    Yu Aoi - Kid
    What’s wrong with tutus and ballet?

    You know… you can still end up like this~

    Yu Aoi - Travel Sand
    Just in case you don’t know, that’s the same person. ;)

  • When they were kids…

    Two days ago I found an interesting post on Chinese Celebrities When They Were Young~~~

    Cutest thing~~ like EVER. Here’s Bibi!! Almost exactly as she is now, isn’t she??

    Bibi Chow - Kid Bibi Chow - Kid - doodle

    On that post, you’ll see some familiar faces like Zhang Ziyi (who hasn’t changed a bit), Jolin Tsai, Bridgette Lin, Vivian Hsu… is that Ella Chen (???), Jet Li, Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse… and even Yao Ming!

    But check after the break for some of the photos for Faye Wong, Jay Chou, Leehom, and Maggie Cheung – with a Japanese bonus… *tsk tsk*

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