Category: Life

  • Food Photo-shooting: Behind the Scenes at McDonald’s

    Real vs. Fiction

    It’s a tough one, isn’t it?

    We’re bombarded with fiction and fantasy in nearly everything we consume… there’s something about my food, though, and I don’t like it when it’s re-touched. I’m a firm believer that food photography — as tasty as it may look like when it’s styled and re-touch — should be “as natural as possible,” then again~ that’s just me.

    I believe that whatever you photograph in food, you should be able to eat it afterwards — so you don’t waste food.

    I’m not against re-touching photos of food… I’ve done minor color enhancement, and I’ve definitely erase bumps or spots that may distract your attention. But I’ve eaten everything that I’ve photographed.

    So my question with this McDonald’s ad is… could you eat the burger, after you’re done? If not (I seem to notice that they’re spraying something on it), why throw away a perfectly fine patty, a fine bun, fine pickles, lettuce and the slice of cheese? It’s such a waste of food… just for a photoshoot.

    After we’re done photographing a model, we don’t throw her away.

  • Popular, where (in the Twitterverse) are they now?

    I’ve been talking a lot about Popular lately, it feels [1]…

    So I was updating yammag lists — especially the actors one — and I usually double-check people’s follows (sometimes to my disappointment ToT – I’m looking at you, Naka Riisa >,<). Anyway, it turns out Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) follows Leslie Bibb, then I checked her follows and found that she was following Tamara Mello.

    Things went on, and I decided to make a list of everyone who was on Popular that was on Twitter.

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  • Will & Grace: Pansexual

    They had a Will&Grace re-run a few days or weeks ago, and even though I haven’t enjoyed the show since I was a teen… Karen still manages to make me laugh.

    Here’s the clip, but be careful if it gets deleted.

  • La Queue de la Souris – A Mouse’s Tale

    I found this… seems to be pretty old considering this YouTube upload, but the animation style is still nifty. The Vimeo version doesn’t have a logo and is much MUCH crisper. I don’t know who did the animation though.

  • Terra Sacra by Sean White

    Remember when time-lapse used to be the craze within designer circles? You used to find all the good ones in design blogs, and stuff…

    I found this on Facebook, posted from a second-hand rate website.

    There’s also a Vimeo version.

    I can see why people hate time-lapse now, though I gotta admit the time-lapse with Machu Picchu is quite stunning. We don’t get to see Machu Picchu shot as beautiful as it was shown there.

  • The L Word in the Jdrama World – Part 2: The Story

    In the first part of this re-imagination of The L Word in a Jdrama universe, we saw my dreamcast.

     I’m still a little unsure on one of my main details, though, and that’s whether I want Meisa Kuroki as Carmen — the hot Latina who sizzled people’s screens and made Shane go Loco (I’m sorry for the cheesy bad writing, but The L Word deserves this cheese)… or whether she should play Molly — the no-longer-straight law student who wouldn’t fall for Shane’s game, so I’m hoping to be able to make a reasonable mish-mash of the both of them.

    Because I only have this one series [1][2].

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  • The L Word in the Jdrama World – Part 1: The Cast

    I guess it must be the Blogathon week, I just couldn’t shake that feeling that I had to talk about The L Word one way or the other… again. What better way to talk about than combining it with MY FAVORITE topic as of lately~ JDRAMA!

    A while back [1], I found a post where a fan talked what Japanese stars they would pick if they ever wanted to remake The L Word in Japan. Of course, I went a step further. I thought about the HOW TOs in the adaptation of a Japanese The L Word… because, well- for starters, Japan in not the USA. Also, I can’t show Showtime content on Japanese television. Not if I want to use my dreamcast~~~

     

    I made this Jdrama character chart because I take this sh!t seriously. LOL

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  • Mizukawa Asami is Oh Zou Funny!

    I was looking for some pictures for my upcoming post, when I stumbled into this Asami Mizukawa funny screencap from her show Yume wo Kanaeru Zo and I burst out laughing.

  • The Proof that We Are Soulmates by Emanuele Colombo

    This is… sorta like a romantic version of infographics, right? xD

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ79b3BWbT8

    There’s also a Vimeo version available.

  • Bibi on Tian Sheng Yi Dui

    I’m not sure what this show is… singing contest or just pure music fun, but it’s called Tian Sheng Yi Dui (天聲一隊) and there’s no English name that I could find, so… Bibi had previously taken on Celine Dion [1], and I was about to post her video taking on Mayday’s LoveING (戀愛ING) [MV] [clip] when I found her re-taking on Aaron Kwok’s Give Your Never Ending Love (對你愛不完) [MV].

    Which was good… and at the same time, positively hilarious.

    She had previously done impressions of Aaron Kwok with that song [1], so it’s refreshing to see her singing her own version of the song, but at the same time having a blast doing it.