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November 8th, 2008
12:20 am - To the Future!!!
Thanks LeeAnn for reminding me I have an LJ =P
Ahh yes, planning for upcoming events such as ACEN 2009~
Cosplay line up: The Dark Knight Joker
nom nomm..nom
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Tsutomo Senkawa(left) from Birdy the Mighty
I'm really excited to be part of the Birdy the Mighty cosplay with LeeAnn, the anime is awesommme. Whoever is reading this, CHECK IT OUT.
What else...I've been asked to do some sketch art of the ACen mascots, which is almost done. I think production will be underway soon.
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March 11th, 2007
June 15th, 2006
12:49 pm - yeah yeah
Well, this week was pretty busy. I had to work for my parents which is not to hard unless a customer starts to complain or an order isn't ready. Otherwise, I just sit there and stare into space. I should draw during that time though it's not a nice environment to work in. I'm planning to work on a non-anime music video; that would be the Spider-man movies. Last night on Conan o'Brien was pretty funny. They did a sketch on the Most Controversial Movies, the last one was Toy Story 2, and Conan stated that Pixar wanted to reach out to an older audience. They showed a clip and it was the scene where the toys were surfing channels on the TV and they stopped at a HENTAI xD hahahaa; an elf was having sex. Funny stuff!
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May 28th, 2006
01:09 am - Play! back
The show is over, I'm very tired now. But I must document this memorable evening.
The "Play!" Videogame Symphony was amazing. Lots of great game music was played, my favorites were Mario, Aerith's theme, Sonic the Hedgehog, Kingdom Hearts, Zelda, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Silent Hill...basically all of it. ^^; I filmed almost half of it on a low quality sony camera. Angela Aki was awesome; her version of Eye's on Me blew me away. On my way to the theater, I saw Nobuo Uematsu walking from his hotel ^_^
Some funny moments during the show was that a few occasions, after a song, conductor Arnie Roth would present the next song and someone would scream out "Zelda!" hahaaa and also near the end when he said that a certain song has yet to be released(song from Blue Dragon), a guy yelled out "Tetris!" xD so hilarious. It was interesting to see an event like this appear very casual, most people didn't wear formal clothes; of course it's a differ audience as you all know. I wonder how the Chicago Pops Orchestra views it. Anyway, they closed the concert with the all popular song "One-winged Angel". They played it TWICE. It had such a response, a minute or 2 after Arnie Roth left the stage, he came back and set it up again, with a fast tempo. I went with my brother and we left just about 11:11pm. I got back in time to wish my sister a happy birthday too; her golden birthday.
Ok, I'm finished now.
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May 9th, 2006
10:24 pm - ACen 06
Where to begin.
Thursday: I arrived at the Hyatt with my friend Ray around 9:30am, he hooked up his internet and I pretty much used it til it was time to get my badge xD
Friday: My first time I cosplayed Advent Cloud in full gear. I forgot how many times I got glomped, but most of the time I was asked first =P I took alot of pics, I took pics with people who wanted to take pics with me lol xD It was really fun, I met a few new people; people who I met online and such.
I was set up at the Artist Alley for the first time too. If I knew that the AMV contest was gonna cut out the Staff videos, I would've stayed at the AA longer; so I was pretty bummed about that. They told me they'll show it Saturday and Sunday. At the dealer's room I bought the AC Cloud figure w/the fenir motorcycle, a couple of FFVII trading arts figures...I think that was mainly it.
Saturday: I stayed at the AA most of the day I think..I spotted very cute cosplayers too. I was cosplaying Cloud at the time and an FFVII Tifa cosplayer came up to me and asked if I could take a picture with her. "Sure!" I said; I took a pic of her as well. About 15 minutes later, she comes back and shows me a FFVII:AC Tifa keychain. Without saying anything, she gives it to me and I asked if it was for me. She nods and I thanked her, I didn't think that was good enough so I came around the table and gave her a big hug, lifted her and lightly swung her around xD I think she was a bit surprised about that.
On my way back to the room(6th floor), down the hallway a girl dressed as Lacus Clyne from Gundam came running to me and jumped off the ground about 5 feet away from me and we went 360 ^^;, wrapped her arms around me and knocked my armor off xD Yeah, so I hung out with her sometime during the con. I changed into my Tsukasa cosplay for a 5:00 .hack photoshoot. There were a few more Tsukasa, a really cool Mimiru, Maha, Aura, my con friend who was Crim, a Crimson Knight, Kite, and another .hacker... I was sad that I didn't meet up with A-20, I'll have to talk with her when she's on AIM again. I checked out the rave, it was blehhh...no lapdances from any girls, boooooo xD .. My legs were pretty tired anyway.
Sunday: I woke up around 9:15am and went to the Production room. After the meeting, I saw my friend as Naru sitting by the spiral statue, waiting for the Love Hina photoshoot. I went to her and said I was going up to change into Keitaro. When I came back, we waited a bit for other Love Hina people to show up, but they didn't. Boohoo =P So it was just me and Naru ^_^ We took a good amount of pics outside, they came out pretty well. After the shoot, I changed to my other set of normal clothes and hung around the AA a little bit. I went to the Tomoko Taniguchi meet and greet, very cool. She sketched something for me and it was a small group of people, so it was all good. After that, I went straight to the AMV award ceremonies. Guess what? I won BEST STAFF award!! =D I had a 50% chance of winning. My video, who no one knew what it was called, had quite a few laughs. I went up to the stage and picked up my stuff, I pretty much said "Thank you." in a very weird way ^^; People shouted "What's the video called?!", I told them as a nervously said "My Ridiculously Good-looking Video" So bad...^^;; This is my 3rd award in 5 years.
I think that was pretty much it. I hope next year will be better!
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April 4th, 2006
09:36 pm - Wowow, how long has it been..?
Well, I'm done with my program book stuff. I'm currently working on a little poster with another staff artist. I hope we have more Japanese guests coming.. 1 is pretty disappointing. The staff artists actually have a table at the artist alley, haha... I'll be selling some my ACen stuff and run a few color prints of each of this and last year's art, see how that goes. I don't wanna stay at the Alley for the whole con, so I'll make like 7-10 copies for each art I'm selling, rare! xD
I'm still cosplaying Cloud, Tsukasa late Saturday, and possibly Keitaro(Love Hina) for Sunday.
Gotta get back to work!
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December 29th, 2005
04:48 pm - It's official..
Nice, my Advent Children Cloud cosplay came in this week. Really cool, and it came with an awesome wig too. The top looks alright, not exact like in the movie but it's good. I'll be making the armor, hopefully the sword. Oh, and I'll need to buy similar shoes and shades that he wears. I'm finally gonna look cool. xD
Current Music: Cloud Smiles - Nobuo Uematsu
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December 6th, 2005
11:12 am - what else is new?
::sigh::
Well, I'm trying to get rid of this flu for a week. But that didn't stop me from going to the Bulls game last night vs. the Mavericks. Me and my brother went and behind us was this loud guy screaming "Grab a freakin' rebound!" "Let the Luvabulls finish the game!" Very entertaining lol. It would've been a differ game if Kirk Hinrich didn't get that concussion early in the game. What else?...oh..that's about it.
Current Music: Sirius - Alan Parsons Project
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November 29th, 2005
10:53 am - what's new
Today I plan to clean up my manga for that contest. I'm pretty much at home ichinichijuu. My Thanksgiving was pretty good, went to my grandma's place on my mom's side and to my grandparent's house on my dad's side in the evening. We had fun playing Karaoke Revolution, my grandma had the biggest smile on her face at that time like "what the hell are you doing? but it's looks cool"
Still updating my blogspot from time to time. Peter mentioned that people wanted to give the human Kit a ponytail like the original.
I just don't see him with one, unless it's very small; cuz for one, he'll look like a Kenshin ripoff. I don't think it's necessary for him to have a ponytail, or maybe I should keep the 2 tails on his ass though it'll probably look lame.
Isn't this a New Kids on the Block move? 'oh oh ohohhhhooo, the right stuff'
Current Music: laptop ambience
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November 11th, 2005
08:25 pm - hanakuso!
The salary of Japanese animators. Yeah yeah, I should know this; but here are the numbers.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=7729
I like to see Harry Potter 4 next week, I hear that a 1:30 teaser for Superman Returns will be on it. So as I was watching the Apprentice yesterday, I noticed that there are some people who resemble the cast from FRIENDS; a Ross and Pheobe(sp?) lookalike xD
I recently downloaded "6 episodes" of Dokuro-chan, very crazy and random. I like! xd
Trying to get my feet off the ground.
Current Music: mata ashita - MASAMI
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October 30th, 2005
09:36 pm - Draw or Die
Well, what can I say this time? My cousin celebrated his 1st birthday last night.
I have about 2 more pages to complete my manga, I'm trying this blogspot thingamajig but it's not posting my posts as it should.
http://guutropicana.blogspot.com/ (go to ARCHIVES>October 2005) really i don't know how this site really works..
Anyway, my parents along with my aunt are pushing me to go for an interview at this job near O'Hare, let's see how this goes.
I was talking to my friend Jasmin at Reactor if I should have another birthday party at my house in January, she said she wouldn't mind going again; Mike said he'd go if the roads aren't slippery. I may have a party, but the house needs some major shaping up, needs to spark into cleaning mode x_x
Current Mood: not in control
Current Music: I Wanna Do More
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October 18th, 2005
03:47 pm - Reactor Plans, etc.
Well, it looks like I won't be crossplaying this weekend; very disappointing, I was looking forward to it. I guess I'll be Tsukasa yet again; Friday only. I think I'll be getting to the hotel Thursday night. I'm up against alot of competition in the Draw or Die event, I'll probably get pwned but I'll try my best.
I'm 5 pages away from completing my manga for the Tokyopop contest. I gotta get my comp to read the scanner, could be a USB outlet problem... Recent soundtracks I got in the mail last month was the official Maho Tsukai Tai and FFVII Advent Children soundtrack.
Other than that, I'm having someone make me a advent Cloud cosplay for ACen next year. Here's hoping it'll get to me by then. I'll have to make the armor and the wolf ornament, let's see what my crafty hands can do.
Go White Sox!
Current Music: The Promised Land ~ Final Fantasy Pray
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September 29th, 2005
09:14 pm - It's official
I'll be in the Draw or Die 2 competition at Reactor, wish me luck~
Thinking of wearing my cosplay on Reactor Saturday.
Today, I recieved my ROD the TV Maggie figure, now I just need Anita =p
What else.. I'm working on page 9 of my manga.
Dat's about it for now, til next time!
Current Music: Advent One-Winged Angel
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September 14th, 2005
05:11 am - OMG! that movie was just..
AMAZING!! O_O Fast-cutting action, the music, it was badass!!! that movie is called Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children XD hahaaa.. gravity defying stunts and a whole lot of fast-slow-fast camera moves. Something how the movie Robots was somewhat animated with characters doing whooshy stuff. I just finished watch the anime OVA raw Japanese, it was pretty good..tifa's theme music is only song that was familiar. too bad it wasn't longer or showed non flashback moments..xP
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September 13th, 2005
11:14 am - the things
I'm currently drawing a manga for the Tokyopop contest, which the deadline lands on my birthday..weird. So far I'm in the middle of sketching my 6th page; I need to figure out how I'm gonna time it to 15-20 pages.
I just DL'ed Advent Children last night, though I'm having a bit of trouble getting the english subtitles up. Hopefully I'll get it work and watch it on the widescreen tv ^_^
I'm signed up for the Draw or Die competition at Reactor Friday, wonder how that's gonna go.
That's about it for now..
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August 19th, 2005
04:25 pm - R.O.D the MV
well, I managed to upload my AMV from this year. It's a little bit choppy but oh well. You have to wait less than a minute for the link to come up on the bottom of the page. I'm trying to figure out how to embed this on myspace...
http://dl3.rapidshare.de/files/4155886/44671059/rodtvmusicvid.rm
Current Music: Lacrimosa - Immediate Music
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August 14th, 2005
11:45 pm - Ravinia Festival
Today I spent time cutting some weeds and grass, which was blistering..but at least there was something cool by the end of the day; I went with my sister, her bf, and my brother to the Ravinia Festival where the Chicago Orchestra was playing selected music from the 6 Star Wars films. It was pretty cool as we got there around 6-ish and it started around 7. The young Bobafett(sp?) from episode II(which I haven't seen ^^;) was the narrator throughout the concert. They played "Duel of the Fates" but NO CHOIR!! >.< ohh well.. it was a fun time and it was an outdoor event, and we stayed on the lawn area; I did get to see the orchestra play for about 10 minutes..it was pretty packed. By the end of the concert, they played one more song which was the "bar music". Those are pretty much the highlights of the day. Til next time! XD lol
Current Music: Star Wars Main Theme - John Williams
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August 5th, 2005
09:40 pm - Wizzing around...yeah
Today I went to the Wizard World comic con. It was a nice turn out of course, I walked around for a bit; trying to look for the Reactor booth. Then I saw Margot Kidder lol yeah that's right..Lois Lane XD I was like...all those times I saw the Superman movies, there she was in person. What the heck..so I came up and asked for an autograph, though I had to buy a picture at the table. I was thinking..what should I say to her? lol "I saw you on Smallville last night, hehee" -_-; She was kinda passive and said something like, "oh yeah?"...and she was talking to someone about when she was at the Fortress of Solitude, the ice was made of styrofoam(sp?), and her heels would get stuck and stuff.
Anyway, I finally found Reactor and prereg'd. I bought a few stuff too, a t-shirt that says "I'm only using 20% of my TRUE POWER!", a Cloud(FFVII:AC) wallscroll(someday I'm gonna cosplay Cloud and girls will want me!!!) XD lol...heh..:-/ Oh yeah I saw Steamboy, it was okay..most of the dubbing cast came from comic films(X-men, Spidey 2).
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July 29th, 2005
12:51 pm - Ah~! FFVII and Azumanga Daioh!
This pic made my day lol and the day hasn't ended yet XD
Osaka: "Bang!"
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/energetic.gif) bouncy
Current Music: Soremi no Cake
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July 28th, 2005
12:05 pm - Looking forward to make a comic soon.
Well I finally thought it out...I think. I figured that I should use what my friend Pat is using keenspace.com. So watch out for some random american manga to come around. haha ha..
Ummm..let's see what else, I'm on myspace.com check me out yo! http://www.myspace.com/22595508
Ummm...let's see what else..I said that already, didn't I?(I feel like Willy Wonka) haha..really, I'm staying inside most of the time and don't come out of the house. All I need is chocolate! Hmmm wonders how I would look in pale makeup coming Reactor time...
Oh yeah, I'm thinking of going to Wizard World next FRIDAY, Saturday I have to work and other crap; needs to make the money! $_$
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